The sun., 1919-07-30
Outbreaks Spread to All
Sections, With Worst
on South Side.
HOSPITAL Is ATTACKED
Two Whites and One Negro
Killed Following Patrol
Wagon Crash.
SEVEN POLICEMEN HURT
Governor Holds Conference
With 5 ColOnels-Grand
Jury to Investigate.
SEVEN POLICEMEN HURT

CHICAGO, July 29.-Despite fresh out
breaks tonight in Chicago's race war
city officials at midnight professed
themselves satisfied with what the po-
lice were doing, and several thousand
State troops remained in armor!es. At
that hour the dead list totalled twenty
seven, two negroes and two whites
having been killed during the evening.
and another negro having died Of
wounds received Monday.
The injured list had been swelled by
uncounted scores and several of the
wounded may die. Disturbances were
reported from the South Side "black
belt" an Italian district on the West
Side and from the near North Side.
Throughout the day and evening
Gov. Lowden was in conference with
city officials, State officers and heads
of State militia units. He also called
for advice from Coils. Milton Foreman.
Abel Davis, Henry Allen, Henry j.
NELLY w. NiiiihHI "hO ~OAAi-
manded Illinois regiments in France.
In addition. Col. Joseph B. Sanborn.
who led the old Dandy First" oyeK-
seas, was reported en- route to Chi
cago from Springfield Samuel insult,
former chairman of the State Council
of Defence, and Roger Sullivan, DEM
ocratic leader. alse saw the Governor.
The Governor let 1t be be known
that about $500 State troops were
ready for duty at a minutes notice
and that they would be sent into the
riot district as soon as a request
came from the proper municipal au-
thorities.
Three Killed in Battle.
The first pitched battle of the night
occurred at Thirty-fifth and State
| streets, one Of the centres of trouble
| since the first rioting Sunday. A
| small automobile filled with whites,
| each armed with a pistol and all fir
| ing Unfortunately at blacks, crashed
into patrol wagon at the street in
tersection.
Two OF the whites were killed in the
| collision. Two others and every po-
| liceman in the patrol wagon were
hurt.
Immediately there was a rush of
blacks and policemen to the wreck.
The police could not push the enraged
negroes away and opened fire, killing
one negro and wounding thirty others.
The wounded policemen and whites
were placed in ambulances and a crowd
of whites followed them to the Provldent
Hospital Outside that institution. which
Is maintained and manned by negroes.
crowd of blacks had gathered and the
two races quickly clashed.
A call for police brought a strong de-
tail, who charged half a dozen times
before the rioters were dispersed. One
negro police sergeant and a dozen rioters
were wounded in this clash. One Of the
whites wounded in the fight at the auto
mobile was Frank Hoedek, an employee
Of the Federal collector of Internal reve-
nue.. He was caught under the machine
and a negro shot MIN in the face. The
negro was arrested.
| One BODY Set Aare.
| A fatal affair took place in the West
Side Italian district, where a negro was
knocked from a bicycle, beaten, stabbed,
wounded with sixteen revolver bullets
and. after death had relieved him, gaso-
| lene was poured on his body and set
afire. The corpse probably will never
be identified.
Miles south of the black belt there
and in Englewood. A stray bullet from
the latter clash wounded an aged white
woman a block away
The North Side troubles centred
around West Division street. There was
considerable shooting throughout the
Barrabee street police district. but 30 far
as could be learned no fatalities resulted.
Several negroes and numerous whites
were arrested. most of the latter giving
Italian names.
Hundreds OF negroes. many carrying
personal possessions and some without
baggage, Joined in an exodus to-day.
The majority OF them, chiefly In family
groups. bought railroad tickets for Mem
phis and Nashville. A considerable num-
Der said they were going TO Indianap-
oils
The menace OF fire was added to an
already serious situation when Fire
Marshal O'Connor reported he had been
informed negroes were threatening to
apply the torch to homes of whites on
the South Side. The marshal said every
available fireman was being held in re-
serve TO meet such an emergency.
A repetition OF the desperate fighting
In the county Jail between white and
negro prisoners during the day was
made impossible by locking the blacks
in their cells and placing a machine
igun in position to rake both the cell
doors and the main entrance to the jail