Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-28
Policeman Wounded and Fiji
ty Other Persons Injured;
Every Available Officer
Rushed to Scene.
ONE NEGRO IS DROWNED;
WHITE MAN SAID TO BE
Sunday Riots Had Their Start
+. in Petty QuarreIing at Beach
it is Claimed; Negro Fatally
Shot.

Chicago, July 2.-Serious rioting
of whites and blacks in the negro
district of Chicago broke out Sum-
day afternoon and before midnight
two men were dead, according to
police reports, both drowned, two
negroes probably fatally wounded
and more than a score, possibly So.
persons, both blacks and whites,
wounded or injured by bullets.
stones, clubs and other missiles, 50
or more arrests were made and
every available policeman was
rushed into the black belt.
The casualty list reported by the
police included a negro youth, who
was drowned in Lake Michigan, and
a white boy also drowned. The
negro'sN body was recovered.
A white youth was arrested in
connection with the drowning of the
negro. The latter was said to have
been struck with a stone and fell
from raft floating off the Twenty
ninth street bathing beach, where the
first serious trouble started. Stones
were thrown at bathers on both sides
of the color line, as whites and
blacks are segregated at the beach.
Street Fighting Serious.
Twenty-ninth street soon was a
seething, fighting mass of humanity
of both colors. Revolvets, clubs,
stones and bricks were used. Riot
call after riot call were received by
the police, and patrol wagons loaded
with bluecoats rushed to the dis
trict.
Negroes at home on State street
in the heaxt of the black belt beat
whites prdmiscuously through the
day and night,
Whites went about dragging ne
'groes from street cars and beating
them.
The trouble moved from one part
of the negro district to another.
Hundreds of policemen were rushed
to the troubled neighborhoods and
succeeded in keeping the disorders
scattered, ----
With the police stations emptied
of reserves and scores sof others
rushed from North and West side
stations, Aching Chief of Police Al
cock ordered every available police
man on duty to prevent further out
breaks.
The small army of bluc coats sue
ceeded in bringing About a fair SEM
blance of order in the black district,
although the negroes were in bad
temper.
Escapes in Excitement.
Late Sunday night no further SER
;ous rioting was reported, though
crowds were still on the streets. =
Hospital reports showed one negro
shot through the abdomen, probably
fatally; another slightly wounded
and a policeman shot in the shoulder
Four other persons, including one
white woman, were injured by miss
lies, none seriously. One white man
was sitting at an upper window of
his home on Twenty-ninth street
during the height of the excitement
when negro attempted to shoot a
policeman with a rifle which the
negro was carrying wrapped in
paper. The weapon was struck up
ward and its ball grazed the win
dow watchers forehead and he fell
from the window. He was but
slightly nurt. The negro escaped in
the excitemf4,t
A negro was found probably fatal
ly wounded at Thirty-ninth and
Halsted' streets, two miles from the
scene. of the early riots.
Three negroes were dragged oft
strest cars in the same neighbor-
hood and beaten. All had fractured
skulls. the police said.