 With costs to transport and feed the state militia, during the violence, the total cost to the state was $265,000 (about $7 million in 2018).The family of Scott Barton sued the city for $5,000 (roughly $125,000 in 2018), as did the family of William Donnegan.The families of four other blacks who were killed, were denied the right to file suits, as the city attributed the cause of their deaths, not to the attacks, but to an uncontrollable "force majeure".