The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1919-07-28
RACE WAR GIVES
CHICAGO POLICE.
A BUSY SABBATH
Negro Boy Who Crossed Color
Line Was Stoned From
Raft and Drowned
GENERAL RIOT RESULTS
Blacks Retaliate, and Whites
Chase Them Into Negro
District-Many Hurt

Chicago, Ill.,, July 2S.-Trouble be.
tween whites and negroes was re-
newed in the Chicago '4olack belt to-
day when Moses Thomas, a negro,
fired several shots al wagonlOad
OF white workmen being taken to
southside factory to work. When at
tempts were made by whites to dis
arm Thomas, dozens Of negroes rush
ed to his assistance. The police
quelled the disturbance and reported
nobody injured.
A riot call was sent to the Dearborn
street police station, hut wien wa
gon load of patro!men arriced on the
scene the fighting was over. Hun
dreds Of whites and negroes had gath
cred on the sidewalk, and patrolmen
had Thomas in custody.
During the early morning hours,
five calls were sent to the Dearborn
street police station, in which fights
were reported in the vicinity of 35th
street.
Police Captain Joseph Mullen today
took extraordinary measures to pre-
vent a repetition of yesterdays trou-
BILE in the black belt on the south
side. Fifty mounted police and one
hundred patrolmen were assigned to
guard the district, while 500 patrol
men were held in reserve for immed1-
ate service in the event of further
disturbances.
OF the injured, 80 were white, and
rs negroes. <
Situation Under Control.
The situation in the "black belt" of
Chicago where race rioting occurred
last night resulting in the death Of
two negroes and the injury of so and
more whites and blacks, including
four patrolmen, was under the control
of the police early today.
coIored Boy Drowned.
Accounts Of the original trouble dif-
fers, but the version accepted by the
police today is that the fighting STRAIT
ed at the goth street bathing beach
where the white and colored people
are accustomed to swim in Lake
Michigan, the two races being separ-
ated there by an imaginary line. Thi
version of the affair says a negro boy
on a raft crossed the boundary line
and that white boys threw stones at
him, knocking the cOlored lad into the
water. He was drowned. A general
fight developed and riot calls brought
several hundred police into the col
ored district. Stones and clubs were
hurled in all directions. Many people
Obth white and black weer injured by
the missiles.
In Black and Tan Belt.
After the fighting on the beach had
been quelled, trouble broke out near
the center OF the colored district. A
policeman was attacked by a mob
after trying to rescue fellow police
man from the crowd of negroes. Sew.
eral shots were fired in his direction,
one of which struck his arm. He drew
his revolver and fired into a crowd
Three colored men were hit, one dy-
ing later in hospital.
After the police reserves had dis
persed the crowds along State street
and other parts Of thickly populated
negro sections, the rioting subsidized,
iwth only small outbreaks during the
night, but, according to police records
early today, only two fatalities result
ed from the rioting.
10000 Negroes in City.
It is estimated that close to 100000
negroes live in Chicago. Virtually all
of them live on the south side of the
city, and many of them have acquired
property in desirable neighborhoods
occupied by whites. This has led to
minor clashes between the races dur.
ing the paost two years and in a
number of instances bombs were ex-
ploded in buildings occupied by ne
groes. i