The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-07-29
SOLDIERS FAIL To
CHECK RACE RIOT
WAR IN CHICAGO
Continued From First PaEe.I

IY constituting q fine residential quar-
Ter Of the South Side. Property had
decreased in value and whites had emil
grated to other parts OF the city by
thousands, but many others had chung
TO their homes while the streets and
one II the large parks became t~hronged
with negroes.
Stalk Their Prey.
Both parties to the contest, enraged
by stories Of the cruelties Of the othhF
during Sunday nights melee, deliber-
ately ARMED themselves last night and
went out to stalk their prey. As soon
as darkness fell the fighting, in va
rious forms, became fierce.
In some cases, negroes in automobiles
dashed through the streets firing at any
white encountered. In other cases
whites attacked buildings occupied by
negroes shooting through windows and
doors while tho inmates fired back
from behind barricades. Bands OF both
races marched through the streets and,
meeting, fought battles that ceased only
when the pavement was covered with
dead and wounded or the mounted po-
lice had spared their horses through
Many individual fights. hand to- hand
struggles with knives and razors, added
TO the casualties. Men and women were
dragged from street cars until the ON
pany stopped running them through the
affected area. In one instance, a band
Of whites passing a mansion on Graid
boulevard and resnrting the occupancy
OF 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, hooters and incendiarieS APP
peared. Several houses were fired, and
one was burned. A number Of stores
utorn hr1Lraa nfaan u md Hualfad
/ Toward daylight the less aggressive
having been driven to cover, worn out
with fighting or jailed, a number OF
white rioters invaded the downtown
kquartcr, beat negroes found or the
streets and dragged covering porters
from all night restaurants and hotels
to the streets, flogging them.
Among those injured during the night
were three metnbers Of the Seventh reg
iment, who were beset by negroes while
on the way to the armory. Corp. Riggs
was shot In the back; Charles T. VIII
llams was shot in the side and j. N.
Rankin was slashed with a razor, Maj.
FIRED Hayes was found probably fatal
ly beaten, presumably by negroes. An
automobile containing Adjt, Gen, Dick
son was fired on but without damage TO
the occupants.
Negroes in Flight.
An exodus of negroes to the north and
west sides began as the fighting was
Mt It's height. Some so, 900 more ne
groes already live in those parts Of the
city and the police took precaution to
stop any resentment shown by whites
at the added population. Of Africans.
This hegeria was stopped at daybreak
by the street car strike.
A few whites were penned In their
homes by angry negroes and had to
telephone the police for aid to escape.
One family managed to elude the ne
groes by backing their faces and de-
parting in disguise, But aside from
. few such instances persons living In
Or near the war zone were unmolested
physically If they remained within their
domiciles.
Taxicab drivers, as news of the feud
spread, refused to take passengers into
lived along the car lines which were
stopped had long walks through the
field OF battle, As far as the police
could learn those persons suffered no
affronts II they went quietly along their
way.
The various affrays owed their initla-
tive about equally to the two races.
Most of the white rioters were young
men and youths with here and there a
man of mature years.
The police devoted much of their ac-
tivity to clearing the streets OF negroes
and many of the fatalities resulted from
the recalcitranoy of the negroes against
the order to disperse, In one crowd
at 35th street and State street, former
Alderman de Priest, II negro, was with
u crowd of blacks ordered to scatter.
They refused, despite the pleading OF
the former alderman and two negro
police sergeants and the officers fired
into the assembly, killing four and bare
ly missing de Priest,
A police captain In the black belt
ascribed the trouble to the hoodlumism
Of negroes who came to Chicago during
the last two years to make up the short
age in labor caused by the war, He
older residents sanely refrained from
such clashes, having become accustomed
to the freedom allowed to blacks with
ont turning II into license,