Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-31

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prosecuted in the municipal courts
and not by the military authori-
ties.
Soon Stop Disorders
Oscar Nelson, 81 years old, white,
was found in West Side street with
|. two serious stab wounds in his chest.
The police believe he was the VIC
tim of race riot attack.
Later the police found Isaiah Del
zier, unconscious in a street near
the stock yards where he had been
attacked by white men, lie may
die of his injuries. No arrests were
made
Attack Soldiers
A number of minor encounters
between small groups of whites and
negroes were speedily stopped by the
State troops. Several arrests were
made by the militiamen. Soldiers
captured negro sniper on the roof
of building in South State street.
He was turned over to the police
and his pistol contiscated.
A squad of soldiers on duty at
the stock yard was attacked by a
crowd of white men this morning
after they had rushed TO the AID
of a negro who had been beaten.
The soldiers held the crowd in
check with bayonets and retralned
from shooting. Several wagon loads
of police were rushed to the scene
and the crowd dispersed
Governor Frank o. Lowden or
dered the troops out last night on
request of Major William Ii.
Thompson after darkness had
brought renewed rioting and the
city's 5000 policemen found them
selves exhausted. The First, Second
and Third Reserve Militia and the
Tenth and Eleventh Illinois Infantry
were sent on duty by AdJutant
General Dickson, while the Ninth
Regiment remained in reserve at the
stockyards and the Fourth Re-
serves on the West Side.
Fire Oh Soldiers
Fighting kept up after the troops
reached their stations shortly DC
fore midnight, and one squad Of
soldiers had to fight a crowd of ne
groes to reach their station at For
ty-first street and Wabash avenue.
while other soldiers were fired on
from ambush on the way to duty.
No soldier was killed or wounded,
and after the troops had taken their
places disorders died down within
the region patrolled.
As the soldiers swung with steady
gait into the riot area, the roughs
who had been looking for fights dis
appeared as if by magic. Some of
the gangs sped to territory hitherto
uninfected by terrorism and re-
sumed their unlawful occupation,
but most of the marauders. as rain
began to fall, retired for the night.
Quiet in Guarded Districts
AS each regiment reached its
headquarters the men were split
into patrols of eight who were sent
out under noncommissioned officers
to see that order was preserved
Even the truculent negroes for the
most part Tefrained from fighting
the soldiers and by 2 o'clock in the
morning all was quiet in the troop
guarded territory.
The most serious riot of the night
took place at Fifty-third and State
streets where 200 policemen fought
nearly two hours a crowd of ne
groes, firing several hundred shots
before the rioters were subdued
and forty-fve of them arrested. 1T
was only after the patrolmen had
chopped their way into some of the
buildings and seized a dozen snipers
with their rifles and 500 cartridges
that the fighting ceased.
Although many heads were
cracked as the police charged the
barricaded negroes, all the rifle fife
resulted in the injury of only one
person, Patrolman Emil Johnson,
driver of a patrol wagon. lie wos
shot as the policemen dashed up to
the scene and thereafter the blue
vehicles while approaching the row
of houses.
Before the troops had all been
assigned, there We're some minor
clashes with roughs, however. The
first melee occurred in front of the
shop base for the motor transport
corps at F7ifty-first street and Wa
bash avenue. Nine negroes, armed
with revolvers, drove back and forth
in front of the base, firing promis-
cuously but hitting no one. A squad
of soldiers soon came up and gave
chase, capturing the negroes after
firing several shots at them. Ten
revolvers and several razors were
taken from the prisoners, who were
then turned over to the police. .
Major Macy, in command of six
companies of the First Reserves,
and a platoon of his men We're fred
on by snipers at Fifty eighth street
and Racine avenue. None of the
soldiers was hit and when they
scattered and sought their assail-
ants. the latter disappeared.
The first arrest made by soldiers,
however. was that of i've white mon
whose automobile was searched be.
cause of their rowdyism and found
to contain n revolver.
Carried to Washington
While the soldiers were taking
their stations. crowd of whites
surrounded the home of John Coles,
a negro policeman in Englewood,
and rained bullets on him and hls
wife. The house was severely dam
aged before policemen came to the
rescue.
Interference with the United
States mails has carried the riot SIT
uation through official channels to
Washington. Federal officials hint
ed to-day that troops would be ask
ed to surround the post office, al
fording protection for employees of
both races and guaranteeing deliy-
cry of mails.
Failure of one thousand chauf-
feurs, carriers and clerks to report
for duty yesterday was declared by
Postmaster Garlic to constitute in
reference with the mails, the riors
and strike being assigned as the
reason of the inability of employees
to discover the real cause of the
interference was reported to Post
master Burleson.