The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-07-29
GOVERNOR APPEALS TO CITIZENS
 TO CEASE FATAL STREET C0MBATS
 WHICH HAVE CAUSED DEATH OF 24
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(Continued from Page One.) equal number of whites either fought in the streets and alleys or covered in their homes while shots were fired. mounted policemen Eanoped along the bouley ards, patrol wagons dashed through the streets with prisoners and wounded women and chiI1ren screamed as men fought with cudgels, knives and fists.
 When the rioting, which started Sunday night at the stoning and the drowning of a negro who had drifted on a raft into the water of a beach used by whites, broke out afresh last night Mayor Thompson asked Cover nor Lowden for troops. The gover- nor was on his way to Lincoln, Neb.. turned back at Burlington, Iowa, and Acting Governor Oglesby gave AdJu- tant General Dickson orders to mob ilize necessary soldiers. By midnight four regiments were in armories in the South Side but by that time the police had cleared the streets for the night and began collecting the dead and injured and rounding up looters.
 The rioting Sunday night aroused hundreds of persons who had long grieved at the rapid influx of negroes. who have spread over a large terri tory formerly constituting fine res idential quarter of the South Side. Property had decreased in value and whites had migrated to other parts of the city by thousands, but many others had chung to their homes while the streets and one of the large parks became thronged with negroes. Last night many whites and negroes armed themselves and went out seeking enemies As soon as darkness fell the fighting in var ious forms became fierce.
 In some cases. negroes in automo- piles dashed through the streets firing at any whites encountered. In other cases whites attacked the buildings owned by negroes, shooting through windows and doors while the inmates fired back from barricades. Bands of both races marched through the streets and meeting. fought until the pavement was covered with dead and wounded Many individual flghtsand hand to hand struggles with knives and razors added to the casualties. Men and women were dragged from street cars until the company stopped running them through the affected area. In one instance q band of whites passing n mansion on Grand Boule-
 
 the place by blacks, was fired on from the house.
 As the night wore on and the bands of terrorists were broken up by the policemen, ,looters and incendiaries ap peared. Several houses were fired, and one was burned. A number of stores were broken open and sacked.
 Toward daylight, the less aggressive having fbeen driven to cover. worn out with fighting or jailed, a number of white rioters invaded the downtown quarter. beat negroes found on the street and dragged covering porters from all night restaurants and hotels to the streets, fogging them unner- cifully.
 Among those injured during the night were three members of the Seventh Regiment who were beset by negroes while on their way to their armory. Corporal W. T. Riggs was shot in the back; Charles T. Williams was shot in the side and J. N. Rinkus was slashed with razor. Major Fred Haynes was found probably fa- tally beaten. presumably by negroes. An automobile containing Adjutant General Dickson was fired on, but the occupants were unhurt
 An exodus of negroes to the north and west SlueB began us AAlb lAb was at it's heighth. The police took precautions to stop any resentment shown by whites at the added popu- 1ation of Africans. 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 the police. A family managed to elude the negroes by backing their faces and departing in disguise. But aside from q few such instances, persons living in or near the war. zone were unmolested physically if they remained within their domici1es.
 Taxicab drivers, as news Of the feud spread, refused to tnke passen- gers into the disturbed district, and residents who lived along the car fines that were stopped had long walks through the field of battle. As far as the police could learn the per sons suffered no nfrronts' If they went quietly along their way
 Tho various affrays owed thoir tn- itiative about equally to tho two races, although the Caucasians seemed to be the prime aggressors, the Africans starting their assaults more ns coun- ter ofYensives. Most of the white riot CTS were young men.
 Tho police devoted much of their activity to clearing tho streets of ne groes. and many of the fatalities re- suited from the recalcitrancy of the blacks against the order to disperse. Tn ono crowd at 35th street and State street. formor Alderman DePriest, a negro, was with a crowd of blacks or dered to scctter. They refused, de- spite the pleading of the former all derrnan and two negro police ser geants and the officers fired into the assembly. killing four and barely missing DePriest. A police captain in the black belt ascrfbed the trouble to the hooilurnism of negroes who came to Chicago during the last two years 10 make up the shortage fin labor caused by the war. He said his expe- rience showed that the older residents sanely refrained from such clashes. having been accustomed to the free dom allowed to blacks without turn ing it into license.
 During the night some night hos pitals in the region became filed