The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-05-26
BITTER RACE WAR IN CHICAGO.
Killing Of a Boy by Negroes Last
Week Starts Serious Trouble.

Chicago, May %. Chicago is
threatened with race war of serious
proportions. Embittered by the shoot
ing of Enoch Carlson, an eight-year-
old boy. last week by two negroes,
the residents in the vicinity of TWEEN
ty-ninth and Dearborn streets. have
armed themselves and clashes be-
tween white and colored men have
become so frequent since the Carlson
murder that it has been found neces-
sary to detail scores Of policemen in
the quarter to preserve peace. Even
this precauton has been unsuccessful
in keeping the opposing factions
apart.
In riot which broke out in this
quarter last night between the whites
and the blacks. James Gray, colored,
was killed, Harry Bernstein was NOR
tally wounded and building in which
Bernstein was being held captive
suffering from for bullet wounds, was
stoned and partially
Wrecked by a Mob
of 900 persons. The trouble started
when Janes Gray accused Bernstein
and white companion of being
| troublemakers. Angry words soon led
to blows, and in the fight that fol-
lowed Gray drew knife and at
tackled both men. Bernstein. who is
bartender in the vicinity, drew a re-
volver and fired four shots. Two OF
the bullets took effect in Gray's body
and he fell unconscious to the side
walk He died while being removed
to hospital.
AS Bernstein and his companion
We're leaving the scene of the shooting
two colored men seized the bartender
and scuffle for possession of the re-
volver began. While the struggle was
in progress Policeman Tinsley, col
ored, came running up. Bernstein
swung the revolver toward him and
Tinsley says discharged it twice. Tins
ley drew his own revolver and
Fired Four Shots,
each of the bullets taking effect in
unconscious, a crowd hurried toward
Tinsley and the wounded man. With
the assistance of another colored man,
Tinsley picked Bernstein up and ran
into a nearby saloon. Tinsley stood
in the doorway of the saloon, with
drawn revolver, but the crowd, which
was composed of negroes, was crying
for vengeance for the killing of Gray,
and Tinsley, seeing that he, unassist-
cd MT 1,N OH tn
back, shut and barred the door. The
crowd, which had now grown to a
mob, rushed at the building and it's
entrance. Finding all the doors locked
and being unsuccessful in their efforts
to force them open, large stones and
other missiles We're thrown at the
building and every window and fixture
in the place was shattered and de-
molished.
In the meantime the police at cen
trail station had been notified of the
trouble and two patrol wagons and
an ambulance filled with policemen
were hurried to the scene, but it was
only
After a Desperate Fight
III w lCH several vi Ilio rioters were
badly bruised by the policemen's clubs
that the mob was forced back from
the saloon, shouting for Bernstein, the
slayer of Gray The police told them
that Bernstein had been killed. This
was not enough, however, to satisfy
them, and finally the bartender, who
was unconscious, was placed on a
stretcher, cover thrown over his
face and brought to the door of the
saloon. This had a quieting effect on
the crowd and they soon dispersed.
Another exhibition of the feeling
existing between the whites and the
blacks was given late last night when
Charles Poske was shot in the Shout
der by colored man at whom he had
been shooting during disturbance at
Twenty-third street and Stewart ave-
nue.. Poske, who is Waterman in
coal yard, says that several negroes
started a quarrel with him.