The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-29
CHICAGO RACE
RIOTS CAUSE
TWENTY-FOuR
FATALITIES
Two More Lives Added to Toll
by Battles in BLACK Belt
Trouble Spreads to Coun-
ty Jail.
1900 TROOPS GUARD
(By Associated Press)


CHICAGO, July 29.-The police's
list OF riot fatalities rose to "a this
morning when q negro, was killed by a
detective who fired into a crowd Of
rioters on the South side and another
negro who died in a hospital.
A vicious race fight broke out in the
county Jail shortly after IL o'clock.
The whites outnumbered the black 20
to / and the guards were swept aside
when they tried to strife the trouble
at the STRAIT.
Soldiers Stand Guard
Four thousand soldiers with full
war equipment stood ready today to
cuell the rioting.
A hundred negroes and an equal
number of whites either fought In the
streets and allies or covered in their
homes while shots were fired, mounted
policemen galloped along the boule-
wards, patrol wagons dashed through
the streets with prisoners and wound
ed, women and children screamed as
men fought with cudgels, knives and
fists.
When the rioting. which started
Sunday night with the stoning and
drowning of a negro who had dr1fted
into the water Of a beach used by the
whites, broke out afresh last night,
Mayor Thompson asked Governor
Lowden for troops. The Governor who
was on his way TO Lincoln Neb, turn
ed back at Burlington, Ia. and acting
Governor Oglesby gave AdJutant
General Dickson orders to mobilize
necessary soldiers. By midnight four
regiments were in armories ON the
southside, but by that time the police
had cleared the streets for the night
and began collecting the dead and in
jured and rounding up looters.
Resent Influx Of Negroes
The taste of blood Sunday night
whetted the appetites of hundreds or
adventurous persons who had long
srieyed at the rapid influx Of negroes
who have spread over a large terri
tory formerly constituting f1ne resi-
dental quarter of the southside. Pro-
perty had decreased in value and
whites had migrated to other parts OF
the city by thousands but many others
had clung to their homes, while the
streets and one of the large parks
became thronged with negroes.
Both parties to the contest. enraged
by stories of the cruelties OF the oth'
er during Sunday nights melee, de-
liberately armed themselves last night
and went out to stalk their prey. AS
soon as darkness fell the fighting in
various forms became fierce.
In some cases, negroes in automo'
biles dashed through the streets flr
ing at any whites encountered. In
other cases whites attacked the bulld
ings occupied by negroes, shooting
through windows and doors, while the
inmates fired back from barr1cades
Bands Of both races marched through
the streets and meeting, fought bat
ties that ceased only when the pave
ment was covered with dead and
wounded or the mounted police had
spurried their horses through the
mass.
Dragged From Street Cars.
Many individual fights, hand tc
hand struggles with knives and razors
added to the casualties. Men and
women were dragged from street cars
until the company stopped running
them through the affected area. Ir
one instances a band of whites pass
ing mansion on Grand Boulevard ant
resenting the occupancy Of the place
by blacks was fired on from the house
AS the night wore and the bands o
terrorists were broken up by the po
licemen, looters and incendiaries ap
peared, Several houses were fired ant
on was burned. A number Of stores
we're broken open and sacked.
Toward daylight the less aggressive
having been driven to cover. worn ou
with fighting or Jailed. a number o
white rioters invaded the downtowl
quarter, beat negroes found on tn
street and dragged covering porter
from all night restaurants and hotel
to the streets. flogging them unmerc
fully.
Among those injured during tn
night were three members Of the Sc,
enth regiment who were beset by ne
groes while on the way to their arm
ory. Corporal w. T. Riggs was sho
in the back; Charles T. Williams wa