New-York tribune., 1919-08-01

MRlls, tne rlotS ana strike being as
signed as the reason Of the inability Of
employees to reach their employment.
The interference was reported to POST
master General Burleson
Negro mai! chauffcurs and carriers
assigned to the black belt were among
the absentees. interrupting the deliv-
cry of mail in that section to great
extent
Mayor Thompson in statement
issued to-day said that one reason
for his appealing to Governor Lowden
TOR the use of state troops was that
he had information Of a we'll defined
plot to burn down larger section Of
the "black belt"
The TACT that the whites had re-
sorted to the torch, he said, was clear
ly shown by fifty incendiary fires In
twenty-four hours in the negro dis
trict.
A squad of soldiers on duty at tie
stockyards was attacked by crowd
OF white men this morning after they
had rushed to the aid of negro who
had been beaten. The soldiers held
the crowd in cheek with drawn
bayonets and refrained from shooting.
Several wagonloads Of police were
hurried to the scene and the crowd
was dispersed. Several arrests were
made.
State, city and county officials con-
tinued to cooperate in the suppression
OF violence. Governor Frank o. Low
den, in statement issued this morn
the city waS.not under martial law and
that no such action is contemplated
worse. He explained that 'tt'e'I'ults the stats
troops are working in connection with
the police and that rioters arrested will
be prosecuted in the municipal and
state courts and not by military au-
thortes
When Governor Lowden learned that
thousands of negroes who virtually
have been held prisoners in their
homes since Sunday because of the
race riots were in urgent need Of food,
he gave orders facilitating the delivery
of supplies to the "black belt" AS a
result many wagonloads of food were
sent to the districts on the South Side,
where relief was seriously needed
Oscar Nelson, thrty-two, white, was
found in a West Side street with two
serious stab wounds in his chest. The
police believe he was The victim Of a
race riot attack.
Minor Eucaunters Stopped
A number of minor encounters be-
tween small groups of whites and ne
state troops. Several arrests were
made by the militiamcn. Soldiers
captured negro sniper on the roof of
a building in South State Street He
had ar automatic revolver He was
turned over to the police and his
weapon cOnfiscated.
Funerals were held o-day for twenty
victims of the race riots. Coroner
Peter Hoffman continued tho taking Of
/ tpStjmOnu ut ho oc JoJ
OF the victims, a number of witnesses
being examined.
Adjutant General Dickson, after
making a trip through the danger dis
trict, declared that the state troops and
police have the situation we'll in hand
The troops ordered out last night by
Governor Lowden on request Of Mayor
Thompson included the First. Second,
Third and Fourth Reserve Militia and
the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Illinois
Infantry.
Soldiers Fight Negroes
Fighting kept up after the troops
reached uhcir stations and one squad
Of soldiers had to fight crowd Of
Fortytirst Street and Wabash Avenue
while other soldiers We're fired On from
ambush on the way to duty. No sol
der was killed or woundcd After tllc
troops had taken their places disorders
died down within the region patrolled
The most serious riot of the night
took place at Fifty-th rd and State
streets, where 200 policemen fought
nearly two hours a crowd OF neyroes
firing several hundred shots before the
rioters were subdued and forty-tive OF
them arrested. 1t was only aftc the
patrolmen had chopped their way into
some Of the buildings and seized a
dozen sliipers with their rifles and 500
cartridges that the fighting ceased
Although many heads werc cracked
as the police charged the barricaded
negroes, all the rifle fire resulted in
the injury of only one person, Patrol
man Emil Johnson. driver OF a patrol
wagon. He was shot as The policemen
dashed up to the scene and thereafter
the blue coats kept in the shelter Of
their vehicles while approaching the
row of houses.
Before the troops had all been as
signed, there were some minor clashes
with roughs, however. The first melee
occurred in front OF the shop base for
the motor transport corps at Fifty
first Street and Wabash Avenue. Nine
negroes, armed with revolvers, drove
back and forth in front of the base.
firing promiscaously, but hitting no
one.
A squad OF soldiers soon came ur
and gave chase, capturing the negroes
after firing several shots at them. Ten
revolvers and several razors were taken
from the blacks, who were then turned
over to the Police
Major Macey, in command of six
companies Of the 1st Reserves and a
platoon of his men, were fired on by
snipers at Fitty-cght Street and Ra-
cine Avenue. None of the soldiers WAS
hit and when they scattered and sought
their assailants, the latter disappeared.
The first arrest made by soldiers,
however, was that OF five white men,
whose automobile was searched be-
cause of their rowdyism and found to
contain revolver
Negro Policeman Fired On
While the soldiers were TAKING their
stations, a crowd of whites surrounded
the home of John Coles, a negro 20
liccman in Englewood, and rained bull
let's on him and his wife. The house
was severely damaged before police
men came to the rescue.
Plans for the collection and prcser-
vation of evidence for the prosecution
of those guilty Of murder and assault
in the riots have been practically COM
pleted by Attorney General +. J. Brun-
dage and States Attorney Mac1ay
Hoyne, who were in conference again
to-day.
"The states attorney and I will i'm
mcdiately send detectives and invost;-