The Chattanooga news. [volume] (Chattanooga, Tenn.) 1891-1939, 1919-07-30
GUERILLA WAR
BETWEEN MOBS
Snipers Fire From Ambush
on Taxicabs-More Cas-
uaItieS Occur.
5000 TROOPS IN RESERVE
Barricades Going Up in BLACK
Belt - Negroes
Hiding.

over Chicago since Sunday, when
rioting began between white and ne
gro residents of the Southside, was
believed this afternoon to have les
sened materially. perhaps to nave
passed entirely away.
After receiving reports on the sit
uation from Adjt.-Gen. Dickson and
from the Chicago police, Gov. Low
den declared that troops would not
4 be called into service SO long as con-
N ditions continue to improve as they
have in the past twenty-four hours
Reports to the police from all sec
tions of the riot-swept district lndl-
cate that the police are gaining con-
" troll.
Activities of the rioters today were
u confined mostly to sporadic sniplng,
n men and women firing from behind
barricades or other places of conceal
ment upon stragglers in the riot dls-
trict One additional dead and ten
injured was the toll.
The official list of dead now stands
at twenty seven, which includes four
teen negroes and thirteen whites.
For the present, troops that are
4 under arms in several armories VIII
be held on duty ready for service II
needed.
One More Dead. -.
Ira Henry, a negro, was shot by
a police officer after Henry had shot
and wounded Policeman Walter SUI,
Ivan. Sullivan was severely wounded
and may die.
The police quickly broke up the at
tempt at rioting today when they
dispersed a throng that gathered at
State and Fifty-first streets. Several
persons were injured.
Snipers lying in ambush fired on
taxicab carrying six policemen and
two of the officers were wounded.
Augmenting the 4,500 national
euardsmen already held in reserve,
the Ninth and Tenth regiments OF
Illinois reserve militia arrived in -Chi-
cago from downstate points TO-DAY:
Their arrival increases the number, OF
troops now in the city TO more than
5000.
The possibility of calling federal
( troops from nearby encampments
also is being considered. the CEN
tral department Of the United STATES
arrnv estimated that 1000 regular
army men are within easy reach OF
Chicago and could be brought here
within a few hours.
Guerilla War On.
Guerilla warfare between
whites and negroes for the most
part replaced the mob rioting
that has held sway over large
areas Of the city since Sunday,
and which brought the city many
times to the verge of martial law.
N Is still possible that troops may
be called upon to take over the
poIieird Of the city, although the
4 police department claims to be
uettinc the situation slowly in
hand.
establishment Of zones with
stated number of police officers as
signed to each zone has, the police
declare, broken up the mobs Of whites
and blacks that caused Mondays and
TUESDAYS reign of terror. Fighting
between the whites and blacks has
nv no means been checked, however,
and sporadic disturbances still are
frequent. not only in the negro dis
rict but in the business section and
in residential districts of the North
and Westsides.
Careful checking up OF cas-
uaIties resulting from the three
days Of roting has reduced
somewhat earlier estimates OF the
dead and wounded. The official
coroner's list today places the
number of dead at tWenty-s six, in
eiuding eleven white men ana
fifteen negroes. The wounded, it
is estimated, numbers more than
300.
No Call for Troops Yet.
Military and civilian authorities
have wavered several times on the
verge of calling out the 4,5O0 militia
men who are being held in armories
completely armed and ready for in
slant service. Adjt.- Gen. Dickson.
Gov. Frank G. Lowden and Mayor
THOMPSON have held frequent con-
ferences and although admitting that
the situation is extremely bad, have
thus far refrained from calling out
the guardsmen. 1t is declared, how
ever, that should rioting on the scale
of that of Monday night and Tues
dav be renewed, the soldiers will be
called out before nightfall.
Between 2 o'clock yesterday after
noon and this morning but one man !
is known to have been killed, lie Is |
a Young negro who was attacked in |
the Westside neighborhood, several
miles from the black belt. stabbed and |
shot siteen times and his body asst
urated with gasoline and set afire
Another incident that featured the |
rioting during the night was an at
tack upon Miss Josephine Mcdonald |
and Miss Mamie Bristol by mob !
of negroes When the girls fed |
from the mob, shots were fired at |
them and both were wounded.
Patrolman Thomas Daily and Po-
lice Sergeant George Chatt were shot
and painfully wounded during the |
night while attempting to quell a
riot.
Calls for the police came from
widely scattered districts with almost
unendins frequency during the night.
Mobs of negroes and whites swarmedl
through the streets and fighting
fiared up in hundreds of localities.
Every available police reserve was
Kept on duty and was kept busy,
while with the street car system
paralyzed by the strike. vehicles Of
every description were pressed into
service to transport policemen. Many
arrests were made and police stations
throughout the city are rapidly f1ll-
ing up with prisoners.
Jail Watched Well.
Guards are keeping close watch to-
day upon the county jail where negro
prisoners became unmanageable yes
terday and staged serious uprising.
Although there has been little fur
ther trouble in the business district.
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