New Britain herald., 1919-07-29
CHICAGO IN GRIP
 OF REIGN R|OT|NG
Continued from First Pacel

having been driven to cover, worn out with fighting or jailed, a number of white rioters invaded the downtown. beat negroes found in the street and dragged covering pOrters from all night restaurants and hotels to the streets, fogging them unmercifully.
 Soldiers Are Attacked.
 Among those injured during the night were three members of the seventh Regiment who were beset by negroes while on thor way to their ar mory. Corporal w. T. Riggs was shot in the back; Charles T. Williams was shot in the side and J. N. Rinkus was slashed with a razor Major Fred Haynes was found probably fatally beaten, presumably by negroes. An automobile containing Adjutant Gen. Dickson was fired on but the occu- pants were unhurt.
 Exodus of Negroes Begins.
 An exodus of negroes to the north and west sides began as the fighting was at it's height Some 900 more negroes already live in those parts of the city and the police took precau- tons to stop any resentment shown by whites at the added population of Afrlcans This hegira was stopped at daybreak by the street car strike. A few whites were penned in their homes by angry negroes and had to telephone for police aid to escape One family managed to elude the ne SrOes and had to telephone for police aid to escape. One family managed to elude the negroes by backing their faces and departing in disguise. But aside from a few such instances, per sons living in or near the war zone were unmolested physically if they remained within their domiciles.
 Taxis Refuse to Operate.
 Taxicab drivers as news of the feud spread, refused to take passengers into the disturbed district and pedes- trians who lived along the car lines that were stopped had long walks through the field of battle. As far as the police could learn these persons suffered no affronts if they went quietly along their way
 Both Sides At Fault.
 The various affrays owed their in itiative about equally to the two races, although the Caucasians seemed to be the prime aggressors, the Africans starting their assaults more as coun- ter offensive. Most of the white riot CTS were young men.
 Refuse to Dispcrsc.
 The police devoted much of their activity to clearing the streets of ne- groes and many of the fatalities re- suited from the recalitrancy of the blacks against the order to dsperse. In one crowd at 35th street and State street, former Alderman De Priest, a negro, was with a crowd of blacks or ders1 to scatter. They refused despite the pleading of the former alderman and two negro police sergeants and the officers fired into the assembly killing four and barely missing De Priest.
 New Corners Are Blamed.
 A police captain in the black belt ascrib 3d the trouble to the hoodlum- ism of negroes who came to Chicago during the last two years to make up the shortage in labor caused by the war. He said his experience showed that the older residents sanely re- trained from such clashes having be- come accustomed to the freedom al- lowed to blacks without turning it into license.
 Hospitals Arc Filled. During the night hospitals in the region became filled and doctors were | A negro corpse was taken into the Csta blishment of a white undertaken and soon a crowd threatened to at | tack the place. News of this spread : and thereafter dead negroes would not be accepted by white mortuaries. | When the streets had been cleared in the negro districts he more per SiStent rioters marche ed downtown and sought out negroes at their work. The 1 protection to the blacks One band entered restaurant across the i street from City hall, wrecked part of the furnishings, dragged a porter from the kitchen and beat him un- ! conscious with a five gallon bottle. i Afterward bluecoats dispersed the | crowd.
 Governor Issues Appeal.
 Governor Lowden before turning back to help stop the riots telegraph ed the following appeal:
 I appeal to all CitizenS white or colored, to obey the law. There are i no wrongs committed by either race that cannot be better rCdressed : through the orderly processes of law ] than by mob violence.
 ''The entire power of the state will , these guilty of lawness. It is time for | all good citizens white or colored, to aid the authorities in every way pos Siblc to uphold the lawS.''