The daily Alaska citizen., 1919-07-30
POLICE APPEAR TO HAVE BETTER CONTROL OVER SITUATION; STATE
 TROOPS STATIONED IN ARM0RIES

CHICAGO, July 29.-(4)-Atho the police appear to have better control of the situation tonight than at any time since the started in this city, several fresh outbreaks occurred in various districts this evening" The regular police force being assisted by large number special officer, who shortly after the trouble started and i~ now thot they will be able stop the without the assistance oI the state troops The authorities do wish to the soldiers unless such step becomes absolutely ncc- cssay to restoring order Several thousand the state guards are quarercd in the amore ready take up the patrol of the city nstants notice
 Governor I,oWden remains i'll constant conference with the city officials and the guard coonc who Icd the H. molS regiments asainr the German forces the front planning on the action to be taken martial law declared The number of deaths resulting from the race twenty-scven, four being killed this cvcnng two of them white and the others negroes Scores of persons, hurt in the fighting tonight weIcd the already large injured list and the hospitals will soon be taxed n &C., commOdate the wounded if the fighting continues much longer.
 A mob of white made attack on the ProvlcntiaI hospital negro institution, late this evening and were beat cn off only after brisk battle with the police When the attack against the hospital launched the negro ac- ants sent hurryup call for police and dozen, of the bue-cIad officers despatched the scene Upon the officers arrivng the whites turned their attack on the negro institution and started battle with the poIcc resisting the attempt the Iacrs part to restore order Fen persons of them police oicers wounded in this fight negro's body found tonight in the west side district horribly mulaed The dead man had been shot and stabbed by white assalants, who then thrc, his Tclt1lS on DOntlre winch they built for that purpose
 RIOTS IN DOWNTOWN DISTRICT
 CHICAGO July % (4o-Atho they have no desire to do so If 1t be avoided the authorities may be forced to use soldiers quiet the situation here Four thousand troops part oi the state guards, ready take charge of the black belt an instants notice but the order for action withheld i'll the hopes that the may stop without military intervention.
 The fights confined the outer sections of the city the whites and negroes mixed this morning in the heart O the downtown district In the fight which occurred this morning at the of Wabash and Adams streets one unidentified negro killed and two others badly Wound cd During the past two nights of rotn% thirteen white people and eight negroes have been killed Hundreds of per both white and coored have received less ous wounds in the fights.
 At early hour this morning the disorders spread the north side of the city and several fights occurred in that section athO there fatalities In this part of the city, the white chased the greater part of the negroes from the vicinity and are keeping close watch that none of them return. Later in the day. the fighting spread to the famed "IOop section of the and several both colors wounded in the disorders there.