Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1919-07-30
CHICAGO RIOTS
SPREAD TO THE
LOOP DISTRICT
RacesWar Becoming Worse and
the State Troops Are
Held Ready.
MODS At FEDERAL BUILDING
coIored Employees Hastily Removed
Under Guard-WiId Night Results
IN Killing Of rs Persons and
Injury Of Scores.

Chicago. July 3O.-Negro rioters. en-
trenched on the Panhandle tracks a
FOrty-seventh street. fired on trucl
loaded with young white women frnI
Swift & Co.'s packing plant. Thu
driver of the truck liz reported to hav'
been killed and several OF the womeI
wounded.
A crowd Of 500 white men. carrying
clubs and rocks. gathered in an ale!
behind the PalmeriiGuse trying to ge
at negro employees of the hotel Sew
eral attempts were made by the crowt
to enter the hotel, but they were
driven off, and the negro walters ant
porters were safely hidden.
Chicago. July @.-Rioting that ha!
kept the South side negro district In
turmoil for several days spread t.
the downtown business district and
threatened to create q situation that
might result in all Chicago bein2
placed under martial law. The situa
ton was admittedly getting beyond the
control Of the police authorities and
1t, seemed practically certain that the
calling out Of state troops would be
necessary. sr,w ay4os,aa vi M
Orders were Issued sby, Ad1qt9nt Gen
eral Dickson to, summon, the Ath regi
ment, Illinois reserve militia, which
is in training at Camp Logan. to Chi
cago for riot duty.
In the fights Of the night on the
South side 20 persons were killed and
1855 injured. Stores were looted and
fires were started by incendiaries Al
the request Of the mayor four guard
and reserve militia regiments were
modified at their armories.
Spreads 70 Loop District.
Before the sun was up mObs Of
white men were gathering In the down
town business district muttering:
Lets treat the negroes as they
are treating white folks on the South
side.~
One Of the first demonstrations oc.
Cured at the federal building, where
hundreds of negroes are employed. A
mob gathered there and negroes who
could hear the bowling crowd appealed
for protection. " E," s9fiG
= Twenty-Five special police were rush
ed.to the federal building'and attempt
ed to dispense the mob. Many Of the
whites refused to move on and several
clashes occurred. Fearing that VIC
lence and bloodshed would result, tht
department officials Of the post offct
arranged to have the colored clerks
removed from the building. Under 20.
fee guard the negroes were taken from
the building and sent to post Office
sub,stations in outlying sections
White clerks were hurriedly summoned
to take their places.
Half dozen encounters between
the police and rioting mobs occurred
in the "loop" district within half an
hour.
White Mobs Attack Negroes.
William Hayes (colored) encoun
tered a mob Of white men and wher
the police rescued him he was bleeding
and badly beaten. Morris Butler (cOl
ored), employed in downtown res
taurant, was made the target Of bar
rage Of sugar-bowls, plates and othe.
crockery hurled by mob which sought
tn drive him from the~restaurant. HI
was badly cut and mauled.
Another mob encountered negro
Mt Franklin and Washington streets
and chased him. The black man open
ed fire with revolver and RI.
crowd fell back, but stray bullet
struck and wounded Frank Leo, VIII.
was driving past in his automobile.
Tom Bowman (colored) was rescued
from a mob in the heart of the down
town district after he had been kicked
and beaten.
One unidentified negro, encounterina
a mob near one Of the largest down
town office buildings. started to run III
terror. He was shot and Instant!
killed.
An automobile containing Adjutan
General Dickson. First Deputy John II
Alcock, Col. II. II. Ronayne Of the reg
ular army and Charles Fitzmorris, sec
rotary to Mayor Thompson, was free
upon by snipers In the vicinity Of Thir
ty-sixth street and yincennes avenue
None of them was hit. The party wa.
making tour Of inspection.
They reported that matters seemed
to be clearing up. and on their repor
Mayor Thompson issued proclama
ton declaring that law and ordel
would be maintained at all costs, tina
property would be protected. He called
upon all law-abiding citizens to keel
out of the conflict.
Appeal for Troops.
Earlier the mayor had sent q tele
gram to Gov. FraEk o. Lowden. ask
ing him to call out the militia. Gen
eral Dickson, who was In Chicago, go
the lieutenant governor on the wire
and was given permission to use til,
Eleventh National Guard infantry ant
the First, Second and Third infantr!
regiments of the reserve militia If h
thought necessary. All members O
these units were called to their ar
mories and waited for the call to &C
tion.
Maj. Frederick Haynes, command
ing a battalion Of the First reserve
and Corporal Williams of Company
Of that unit were among the first cos
ualties. Major Haynes, who lives a