Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-07-22
RACE RIOTS IN CAPITAL GROW II.
MORE SERIOUS; SEVERAL DEAD
AS RESULT OF MONDAYS FIGHT
That Troops Be
Brought Into City To Step
Rioting Are Made; Police
Unable To Handle Sim-
alton; Street Cars Used By
Nesroe. A. Hiding Places.

Waafington, July 19-OuGr
ras aslred t<, t.ka rosSrrn ~ -
.-.~
race rfots ana cl1e ~sso N 10 y
national capitol today and Prea.
marital law as,d nolsc.s Tia ~
wild, t,.oo,s in reeolntions intrn.
duoed in tl,es hrnse IN Rssneaenf.
axives >Clsrk. demorat. of FInr1.
da and VaileL reuuhlionn. ~ Go.
rado. rsmer1jvnlv- Som ~.
noon the nenxest offIcisj eatdmafe
OF last nirhf,s riotins sfnrs1 N -
dead. ten expectad to die. snnre
of lesser wounds or injured a.,d
the cases OF 175 rioters tlocketM
in the poIice courts
Representative Oark's resoau.
ton was q scath6nr arraaennent
of the police and city eovernment.
rison of Missiszsinxd. de.norraf. n.
tr,oducod a reeDiution to sener.te
the whites and blacks ON stTeet
cars.
All the resolutions were renAv.
ed for reference in the usual wny.
By requests of the noIfce All
merchants and pawnshons today
ceased selling firearms. There
was q rush OF citizens TODAY to
buy arms. The negroes and riof.
ers demonstrated in last NIGHTS
scenes and the previous disturb-
ances that they were welI eun.
Washington, July 22.-Anothel
night of race rioting found the ma.
tional capital today counting the
largest casualty list it has had since
soldiers, marines and civilians began
on the negro population
for the long list of daylight holdup,
and attacks on white women which
has alarmed the city.
Four known dead, two mortalf,
eight or more seriousls
wounded an unknown numbe,
slightly wounded or injured in thl
fighting, and police stations and hos.
pitals packed with Others. are ths
results of the most disorderly time,
the national capital has seen possibl1
since the Civil war.
Although reinforced with nroxos,
guards of troops and souadrons a,
cavalry patrolling Pennsylvania ave-
nue, ehe ponce apparently were 2.
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Pannsv,S. Mo a,,en,.n ~ 80 oors ~ 4.e. Ies
.o.rn sas.;n sr s anu .ne ovwI
ties - seioh ,ha ,assa tnetr aev'
Fron, troI1sv cers so .nd sa,;r.,S -
...., o1 eats aiiu s~ulty inov
parties, singly and in pairs rainet
revolver shots into groups of whites
whenever they found them and al
night there was scattered firing from
houses in which negroes, tsrro,
stricken but not quelled, had barri
caded themselves.
Local authorities are conferrin1
with war department officials today OF
measures to stop the rioting. Sugges
tons are being made that troops b
brought in to thoroughly guard thu
city, which the police maintain the,
are unable to do because of insuf
hcient numbers.
Another Assault.
The hrst no,jce renort ~ ~. A.,
+o1d ~ a.o+ho. 1.1h;t - " -. VI.
ed and injured hv a neern a. Ssn;4o
heights s,,hurh The nerro ,o;+era,
.hnnt ~ euo uomaa.s he,ne ne neeU a1, io.' s.sr
day. He was scared away and the,
hid behind a hedge Hs seized hs- a
she nassed bv late last night ~,
woran Vac nr,ctic.lI.s d;s.ah.a :,
the stryeele Her ass,i,an+ ss.sna,
~ e., .L @ns esapet