The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-21
QUIET FOLLOWS
NIGHT OF RIOTS
Washington Police and Hos
pitaI Records Show Scores
OF Negroes Injured.
"cLEAN up" THOROUGH
Soldiers, Sailors and Marines
Avenge Attacks on White
Women in City.

washington, July 21.--The capital
was quiet again today after a nigh'
OF intermittent rioting during when
bands of soldiers. sailors and marines
visited terror upon negroes ID retall-
alton for the series OF negro attacks
on white women and the long series
OF daylight holdups which have taken
place In this city. 49,,
Police and hospital RECORDS TO-DAY
.howad that scores Of negroes were
niured in the widespread clashes be-
tween whites and negroes last night,
More than a dozen negroes, some OF
them suffering from severe beatinss
NJ the hands Of mobs, were treated az
hospitals and scores were cared lot
AT their homes.
The rioting, which began shortly
after 10 o'clock, lasted until early TINS
morning. While the police stood ap-
narcntly powerless. the uniformed
men seized and beat negroes at points
ali along Pennsylvania avenue pc
tween the capitol and the Wnite
House and when they had hnisned
for the night let II be known tna.
fhev intended to meet again tonignt
40 finish up the Job" The trouble
heSan coming 70 a focus SATURDAY
when the sixth attack on white
,,an,en within four weeks on the
streets Of the city was reported, the
last woman to he attacked was the
wife OF a sailor. The assailant got
away from the police and the service
fneY, determined Saturday might 20
take matters into their own HANDS.
They marched through the southwest
section OF the city. driving the ne
rroes in terror 10 their homes, where
thev barricaded themselves. THOSE
caught were beaten and negro WIG
had been questioned by the ponce
concerning the attack on the salior
wife narrowly escaped being iyncneu.
Things finally quieted down aDou.
midnight and the police patrols VIZ
doubled In that section ana ins,ruc ,.'
The negroes promtiy retaliated when
inc 81 their number shot and seriously
wounded a policeman who questioned
him Al he was lettering about the en-.
trance to an alley. The negro escaped
from the second policeman.
Incident Famed Flames.
This incident famed the flames
and MI day yesterday the word was
being passed around among soldiers,
sailors and marines to assemble on
Pennsylyanta avenue Sunday evening
for the aclean-up" Accordingly, last
night the service men appeared ~
little bands and began dealing out
heatings TO negroes wherever they
anneared, One who shouted at the
n,archers from a trolley car was
dragged off and knocked insensible.
another was laid out within a hnn-
dred yards of the entrance OF inc
white House. All up and down the
avenue there were similar encounters
In which the negroes finally NED In
terror.
Police and a small provost guard
attempted interference and arrested
about ten of the white men. The gen.
eral activity of the bands stonped
4 fairly this morning when the soldiers
sailors and marines were forced 70
return to their quarters because their
leaves had expired.
When they retired for the night the
service men declared they would rally
forth again this evening and invited
any white men who wished TO join
them.
Thousand in Mob.
Most OF the injured negroes were
set upon singly or In pairs. but the
more serious of the clashes were be-
tween mobs and crowds Of negroes
who had assembled at several points
Clubs and stones were used freely
hut firearms and fists were the prin-
cipal weapons of battle.
AT times the mobs reached the pro
portions of a thousand or more per
sons and In a number Of cases police
men who sought to aid negro victims
OF the attacks were overwhelmed. In
several instances negroes were pulled
from street cars along Pennsylvania
avenue and beaten.
Precautions Taken.
The local authorities have asked
marble corps headquarters TO FUR
nish a guard to prevent further dis
orders and IL has been promised.
Secretary Baker, of the war de-
partment, conferred today with coy
erning authorities Of the city, who
asked that the leaves of soldiers and
sailors be curtailed to keep them of
the streets at night.