New-York tribune., 1919-07-31
IL of Victims Blacks;
Feud Zone Barred;
Police Close Lines:
State Probe Starts
Torch Is Put to
Negro House
Situation Ol1linous,
Says Head of State
Soltliery;T
Early in Week Die

CHICAGO, July 3o-Chicago streets
tonight were patrolled by soldiers
called out by Governor Lowden at the
request of Mayor Thompson for the
protection of life and property threat
ened by the race war which for four
days has terrorzed the city and which
today added four dead and a score
injured TO its list of victims
The state troops established barred
zone about three miles square, en-
bracing most of the colored resident
district on the South Side. In this zone
they searched every person whom they
met for weapons No one could pass
m or out withou. military permission.
The district extended roughly from
Twenty second Street TO Fsfty-fifth
Street, north and south, anu from
Michigan Boulevard to Wentworth Ave-
nue., east and west
This happened when riots in the
colored district itself had somewhat
subsidized, but when there was an alarm
ing spread Of DISTURBANCES outside.
New York Central Railroad officials
reported all their trains being fired on
Clash With Troops Reported
Late tonight mobs OF whites and ne
groes were reported roaming over vari-
Gus localities of the south side. and 1T
Fifty-eighth Street and Racine Avenue
negroes were said to have clashed with
troops. Negroes also were reported to
have driven all whites from the streets
in the vicinity OF Sixty-third and
Loomis streets, while fires were burn
ing in two different neighborhoods, one
in white neighborhood and the other
in colored colony. A woman was re-
ported slain in riot at Forty seventh
Street and Indiana Avenue.
A riot at Fiftyfirst Street and Went
worth Avenue brought police to the
rescue of negro whose home was sur
rounded by whites. The latter said thu
negro had been sniping and had
wounded boy. The latter could not
be found. A magazine pistol and
rifle were found in the negros home
when he and three negro neighbors
were taken to police station for safe
keeping.
Il2 Fire Alarms
Reports that a number of negroes
had been thrown into Bubbly Creek, }
Sfarnonf
the sewage from the stock yards, wee
received by the police. It is planned
to drag the stream when the situation
quiets.
Policeman Arthur johnson, chauffeur
OF patrol wagon, was shot through
the abdomen tonight while policemen
were rushing to the scene of a riot
on State and Fifty-thirdr Streets.
One hundred and twelve fire alarms
were sounded to-day and tonight from
the South Side, most of them from
negro settlements. Incendiarism bv
whites was charged by the police in
many cases, especially in a blaze to-
night which destroyed a half dozen
houses there, iremen reported, while
rioters threw bricks in an effort to
prevent them extingushing the fire.
Negroes Ask Protection
AdJutant General Frank S. Dickson
after an early evening trip through the
threatened district declared that the
situation was "ominous," and this view
was shared by the Mayors secretary.
who accompanied him.
Hundreds OF negroes appealed for
protection. Incendiary attacks upon
negro homes increased through the day
and night. Negro leaders declared that
many members of their race faced
starvation because drivers of supply
wagons feared to enter some portions
Of the black belt
Tonight the official death list for
four days showed thirty, of whom
i seventeen were negroes, two unident,-
ned, and thirteen whites, one unidsn-
titled.
Inc decision to use troops to patrol
the dangerous parts of the trouble ZONE
was taken tonight as precautionary
measure after Adjutant General Dick.
son had made round of the South
Side negro district and it's enSiron.
ments.
He said the situation was more seri.
Gus than twentv-four hours before. I,
was not deemed necessary ut the tim.
the Mayor asked so- the troops to pro
claim martial law, and whether Gov
ernof Lowden WAS prepared to TAX,
that step was net made known. Il
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