New-York tribune., 1919-07-31
f Monday and Tuesday


nights.
Coroner Hoffman to-day impanelled
a jury and as deaths are reported the
members will view the bodies ard take
preliminary steps in The inquiry
Although no definite date has beer
set for the taking of testimony, tho
coroner said the inquest would be ir
a court room under heavy guard ant
that all witnesses, white and black
would be searched for weapons.
States Attorney Maclay Hoyne as
signed several assistants to the worA
Of gathering evidence. The prosecutor
20 preserve the names Of witnesses K
the various rio.ous happenings.
Mr.. Hoync also indicated that his
activities night go outside Of invcst:ca
tion Of actua! disorder.
II have heard" he said, "that through
the influence Of politicians and Alder
men, scme Of the mer arrested fol
rioting have been turned out as soor
/ as they were taken 20 the police station
shall also investigate this"
More Troops Arrive
Tie 9th Regiment. from the southern
central Illinois, were rushed to Chi
cago to-day to add their rifles and
machine guns - thc potential arm,
already here.
The police committee of the City
Council at . special meeting to-day
authorized Chi~i of Police Clarity to
swear in rs many special policemen as
may be necessary to restore order
Chief Garrity said he would deputize
LOGO special policemen at once.
Forty negroes arrested for com
p.icity in race riots were ARA igned in
tna Municipal Court day The Rev
charged with carrying concealed weap-
ons, wps fined $40 and his revolver
confiscated. One negro was fined $500
and four others were fined $l00 each
OF similar charges. The other de-
fendants demanded jury trials
Mounted Police Rescue Negro
a crowd Of 1000 white men pursued
a negro several blocks in Wabash Ave
nue. near Congress Street this after
noon. He darted into q building, and
was later rescued by mounted police.
Another negro who was chased by a
mob in the downtown district escaped
by climbing the elevated road struct-
ure.
A. Silliman, forty years old, white,
was stabbed. shot ard beaten by a
crowd of negroes early to-day on the
South Side, and probably will die Of
his wounds. He was chased by mob
and sought refuge in q house occupied
by negroes.
A white woman shot negro in the
side on South Wabash Avenue this af-
ternoon. She escaped unidentified
Few negroes went to work to-day
The riots and the strectcar strike gave
them double excuse for remaining at
home. The most seriously affected
district was the stockyards, where only
half the working forces reported, de-
spite heavy police guards along the
chief thorough fares leading to the
yards. The negroes evidently kept un-
der cover, as almost none appeared on
the streets and the railroads reported
that there had been no noticeable exc
dus Of blacks from the city. Reports
that the $4,000 Southern negroes who
came to Chicago to get the high war
wages had begun to drift South again
were secuted by railroad men.
Nearly fifteen hundred negro en-
ployes of the city were laid off by
official order, owing to the riots.
Many of the number were employed
in street repair work. BY official Or
der nine municipal Fairgrounds in or
adjacent to the racial war zone we're
closed. Not more than per cent of
the negro clerks, inspectors and jani-
tors employed at the City Hall re-
ported for work and the greater num-
Der of those who did appear were told
to go home and stay there until further
notice.
At the cabbage reduction plant only
the whites, about one-fourth of the
usual force, appeared for work, and at
the city's asphalt plant there was an
entire absence Of men, all the employees
being negroes. All city work in the
I'd and Sd wards, parts Of each being
in the "black belt" has been sus-
pended.
Negro chauffeurs, clerks and car
riers at the postofice were assured
the fullest protection by Postmaster
Carlisle, under whose jurisdiction are
several hundred negroes.
"The government will not submit to
any interference with the handling OF
distribution OF the mails" the post
master said. "Our employees have the
fullest protection."