The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-28
RACES RIOT IN
CHICAGO, 1 DEAD
Negro Drowned When Trouble
Starts at South Side Bath
ing Beach.
FIGHTING LASTS ALL DAY
Police Have Hands Full Keep
ing Order in % Square Miles
Of Black Belt.
FIGHTING LASTS ALL DAY

CHICAGO, July IA series Of riots
In the negro district late to-day re-
suited In the drowning Of one negro,
the reported drowning of a white man,
probable fatal injury to another negro,
the wounding OF a policeman and in
jury to a score Of whites and blacks
by bullets or missiles. Police tonight
said they had the situation well in
hand.
The trouble started at the Twenty
ninth street beach, where white and
blacks are segregated, and soon
spread TO State street and the main
thoroughfare in the heart Of the negro
district, which extends about five
miles. Shooting started near the
beach. There was also some shooting
in the vicinity Of State street.
Although i'll feeling between whites
and blacks on the South Side has ex-
tended over a period of months, en-
phasiEed by bomb explosions, some
shooting and numerous lights, to-day's
riots seem to have had their start in
pctty at tno DeaCn.
Reports that negroes wandered across
the dividing line to the white section Of
the beach and that whites amused them
selves by throwing small stones at negro
batherR appeared tho most plausible
cause. Soon after the fighting started q
negro fied. pursued by a number OF
whites.
Negro Shoots at Cop.
He took shelter behind building and
began shooting at q policeman who had
Joined the pursuit and who returned the
ire. The negro finally surrendered.
During the nght one negro was prob
ably fatally wounded. Twenty-ninth
street was soon packed with whites and
blacks, the latter predominatinE. More
fighting occurred and q few shots were
fired as some OF the negroes fied and
patrol wagons loaded with policemen
raced TO the scene.
fire broke out in a small building
and fro apparatus was blocked by the
throngs. Negroes are said TO have tried
to drag the fremen from their seats.
During the nshting rocks. bricks and
other missiles were hurled, both at the
beach and at various points along
Twenty-ninth street and along State
street. White men were frequently at
tackled and beaten on State street the
police said.
At the beach while missiles were fiy-
ing a negro on a raft was reported to
have bean struck with a rock and hurled
into the lake. Later the body OF a negro
was taken from the water.
white man. a swimmer, also was
reported hit and drowned With the
police stations emptied of reserves and
scores OF others rushed from North and
West Side stations. acting Chief OF Po-
lice Alcock ordered every available po-
liceman on duty to prevent further cut
breaks. The small army Of policemen
succeeded in bringing about a fair SEM
blance OF order.
Late tonight, the streets OF the dis
tricts where disorders occurred We're
still fairly we'll flled with people. but
police kept the crowds moving and no
further trouble was expected.
Bullet Hits HOusehoIder.
Police were unable to make an esti-
mate Of the number injured, because in
the many skirmishes. names OF injured
could not be learned.
A rifle bullet fired by a negro graEed
the forehead of a white man sitting at
the upper window OF his home. He fell
out the window, but was only slightly
injured. The negro, according to spec
tators. had levellsd the rife at a police
man. but q bystander struck the weapon
upward. The negro escaped.
The negro district has been steadily
increasing in.recent years with the in
fiux of Southern negroes, who came to
work in big industrial plants. Their en-
croachment on white neiEhborhoods
caused considerable trouble and during
the last year many clashes.
Negroes have charged that a number
of bomb explosions in the district In re-
cent months were directed against fami-
lies OF their race by white neighbors.
THE black belt" az II Is known in
police circles, now comprises approx
mately twenty-five square miles and In
cludes only a comparatively few small
white settlements