The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
Entire South Side Scene of
Renewed Rioting, Which
Lasts Until Midnight.
THREE WHITES DEAD
Police Engage Blacks, Who
Fire Into Crowds From
ROOftOps.
STREET CARS BOMBARDED'
Negroes in Motor Cars Race
Through Streets Shooting
Men and Women.
STREET CARS BOMBARDED,

CHICAGO. July 2s.-Eight persons
we're killed and more than two score
wounded. many Of them seriously, in a
renewal of race riots IN the Chicago
"black belt" tonight. Five Of the
dead are negroes and three are whites.
For more than five hours the five
mile area on the South Side was a
battle-ground of scattered fights be-
tween whites and blacks and between
policemen and negroes who fred from
housetops and from dark alleys and
other points of vantage.
The call for troops to quell the out
breaks resulted in four regiments of
National Guardsmen being mobilized,
but at n late hour tonight they had
not been despatched to the disturbed
district, and Chief Of Police Garrity
expressed the belief that the worst Of
the disorder had passed.
The wounded In most cases were
hurried to hospitals. after which they
were removed to their homes when
conditions permitted.
Blacks XIII n Motorman.
After a motorman had been dragged
from his car and killed by a group Of
maddened blacks. Just before midnight
andfa dozen street cars were wrecked
tie street car company ordered that no
more cars be taken into the troubled
area The elevated trains also quit
running In dangerous territory.
/. Troops continued to move to central
lied point on the South Side through
out theenfsbt, but up to midnight they
had not been ordered to begin patrolling
the streets, nor had they helped In
quelling outbreaks. This was explained
by the statement that the outbreaks had
slackened to such extent that the police
could accord protection.
Wherever negroes congregated after IL
p. n they were dubbed by the police
ami scattered.
At late hour desultory firing be-
tween whites and blacks on one side OF
the street continued. 1t had been In
progress, intermittently for several
hours. 1t was the result Of long
standing feud-the issue being encroach-
ment on what the whites characterised
as white territory. Police hnally ef-
fected truce and the principals were
arrested.
Hundreds of photographers. clerks and
other downtown employees who must
pass through the black belt to zach
their homes remained In the business
district hotels and at North Side lodg-
ing places.
Pool rooms. motion picture houses and
other gathering places in the black belt
were ordered closed and the Coroner be-
gan an investigation of the cause OF
the riots.
battle over wide Area.
There was no concerted battle by the
blacks. the outbreaks dotting a large
area.
Every police station in, the South Side
was flooded with reports OF deaths and
injuries.
Chief of Police Garrity at a late hour
said that It was impossible to make an
exact estimate of the casualties because
of the contradictory reports.
The riots, which started yesterday on
the South Side beaches. were renewed
when negro laborers began leaving the
big Industrial plants and by dusk more
than a score Of separate outbreaks had
occurred. Whites began dragging me-
Rroes from street cars. the negroes re-
cars in the heart of the BLACK belt
were tied up and the windows smashed.
A 'hying squadron OF blacks mounted
n touring car, and. riding at full speed
through tho section, sent a volley OF
shots at a group of whites. One white
woman was injured, but not mortally
The negroes were overtaken after a
long chase and placed under arrest.
shortly afterward a mob OF several
hundred blacks formed at Thirty-hfth
street and began stoning policeman.
Gunnre was opened ana Tour OF 'he
negroes fell, all mortally wounded.
white man In the same neighbor-
hood was dragged from truck and
stabbed to death.
A negro chauffeur was killed by whites
q few minutes later in the same block.
scores Of arrests were made, but
where the rioters were found TO be un-
armed, they were released.
Negroes began looting stores OF whites
In one district shortly after the firing oi
revolvers by a squad Of policemen In an
EFFORT to break up a fight over small
purchase of groceries. The police soon
emptied Their guns. The looting contin-
ned until a special squad OF police. armed
with rifies, arrived. They fred low. fell
ing half a dozen blacks. A white woman
was pulled from q street car by negro
He was soon lying unconscious against
the curb. The angry whites left him for
dead.
Use Ra.ors and Clubs.
Groups of blacks formed in football
fashion and charged against whites with
razors and clubs. On one. corner the
scene was like a miniature battle-ground
Unconscsous negroes and whites dotted
the street AS they regained conscious
ness they were arrested or permitted tc
leave the neighborhood.
While the main battles were in prog
ress women, black and white, battled
away In front yards with brooms ant
missiles In one OF these fghts
white woman was knocked unconsc.oui
and taken TO a hospital.
In one fracas on Thirty-fourth street
oonssnusd on Second Faes