Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-07-30
TWENTY y-SEVEN DIE;
HUNDREDS INJURED
IN RIOTS IN CHICAGO
Bands of Armed Men Wage
Battles in Many Parts
of City.
TROOPS MARCH STREETS
WITH FIXED BAY0NETS
Governor Lowden Will Declare
Martial Law Unless Order
Is Restored.
BLACK BELT HOUSES FIRED
Scores Of Arrests Made, and Hospitals
Are Crowded With Wounded
TROOPS MARCH STREETS
WITH FIXED BAYONETS
BLACK BELT HOUSES FIRED
Scores Of Arrests Made, and Hospitals
Are Crowded With Wounded
Blacks and Whites.

CHICAGO. July 2a.-With twenty
seven known dead and hundreds injured.
scores of them seriously, sporadic riot
ing between whites and blacks was re-
ported renewed tonight in various sec
tons OF the city. including the small
North side area populated by negroes
Governor Frank o. Lowdcn returned
tonight from a Western trip arriving
on special train. lie announced he
would declare martial law tomorrow
unless race riots ceased The Governor
made this statement after receiving
reports that. while the situation was
improved In the heart OF the black
nelt. where the trouble started three
GAYS ago, fresh riots had broken out
bands OF armed men are waging battles
IN many parts Of the city.
Thousands Gather In Hack BeIt.
,ori The mos, serious situation was re
ported IN the South Side black belt"
had gathered.
noSi. XSii.rtusily all North side and loop
police We're ordered TO this district
mus leaving almost without police
protection sessions from which came
reports OF intermittent outbreaks
the black belt" on the South Side at
dusk gave way to confusion and sharp
KNIVES as weapons.
Where these outbreaks occurred the
hcbEOtS pTtIONlindtcd IN IrnberS
several meetings at negro halls We're
broken up By the police, after which
crowds formed on the streets
In the carly night clashes various
weapons were used. Including table
Eniyes and si!ngsho,s. Few guns APP
The coroner's death list showed the
totai deaths TO have been twtntv-
four. thirteen of whom were negroes
Four Regiments Ready.
Four regiments OF State militia siep,
a N N,,n
TO affected areas. The Fourth infnn :
ttr,y. from Camp Logan. reached the
with liked bayonets and 100 ROUNDS
o! ammunition Machine guns were
mounted and made ready for action.
Fleeis OF automobiles and auto trucks
we"c held in readiness TO carry troops
10 every part OF the city II orders
Mere given for the military to assume
In addition TO the four regiments on
the ground. the Ninth and Tenth rcgi-
reserve UNITS we're mobil!zed at var!-
Gus towns throughout the State await
ing word 10 cntra!n for Chicago. This
gave potential military force OF APP
proN!mately $500 as Il background for
the city police force.
Every BLOCK in the district bounded
north and south by Twenty second and
Thirty ninth Streets. and east and
west BY Cottage Grove Avenue and
Wentworth Avenue, was patrolled
The main disturbance points were
guarded by dozen policemen 10 the
block. with reinforcemcnts of mounted
men and additional palrolmcn at each
intersection, while every police station
was filled with reserves armed with
rifles.
Outbreak on North Side.
The first serious outbreak tonight
wa. reported from the Oak Street dis
tr!ct on the North SIDE of the city
Five thousand men and boys attacked
dozea negro families living in the
al q m In nf nn-
only a few negroes lived. Similar at
talks were reported.
The body OF negro. who had been
tonight in the West Side Italian dis
tr!ct, when the police responded to a
riot cali, He had been stabbed also
and gasoline poured over his body and
set ahre.
a mob Of whites at 10 o'clock tonight
etnrmed the Provident Hospital an in
stitution for negroes, and In the shoot
ing tina, followed. one negro Was prob
.bly fatally wounded and two police
men. one white man and about six
the mob surrounded the hospital In an
attempt to enter the building IL was
beaten off By policemen.
Hlack Belt Houses Fired.
new menace confronted the au-
homes were fired. IN the black helt''
district more than a score OF alarms
were given: Firemen in responding
N.
Scores OF arrests were made tonight
Of both blacks and whites. Hospitals
were crowded with wounded. and doe
Packing plants at the stock yards
were Ir,,1,. tied up by riots
work. Many whites also remained
away from work. Live stock arriv-
plants. and killing pens were con-
sested before noon. Warnings were
sent to Gnuntry loading stations TO
subsidies.
Police Chief Sees Improvement.
Despite authenticated reports OF
stabbings clubbings and stoninCs that
poured into police stations as the night
insisted that he was very well pleased
with conditions"
More than i.soo negroes IN the en-
were sent TO their homes today to re-
main off duty until the rioting has
ceased. Patrol wagons were utiiizd
homes for their protection. and because
of the street-car strike All street
repair work was stopped today. be-
are negroes and street cleaners also
were laid off.
.,orns The delpsrtmentt nlps m,ntc OF - public works
neighborhoods where whites and ne
groes are the patrons.
Negroes Invade "I.oop" District
Fitering of negroes into tho loop
from the belt led to number OF fights
late today, In which several persons
were injured. One negro escaped
mob by running into one OF the largest
stores on State street, taking the eIe-
vator to the eiglCh floor and Chamber
\tns down fire escape in the alley.
~ 4 white man was wounded In the
eg when negro fred into crowd
of whites at Michigan Avenue and
rhirteenth Street. while black was