Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-28
POLICE GAIN UPPER
HAND IN CHICAGO
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the foot of Twenty-ninth street
during the race disturbances.
FIFTY mounted police and 100 pa
trolmen have been assigned to
guard the negro district, while 500
policemen We're held in reserve at
South Side stations ready for imme-
date service in the event of further
disturbances. The patrolmen were
instructed to search all negroes for
iIrearms and to prevent whites and
blacks from congregating in groups
OF more than three persons.
Chicago, July 2S.-The situation
in the black belt" of Chicago, where
race riotinS late yesterday resulted
IN the death of two negroes and the
injury of perhaps so or more whites
and blacks, including four patrolmen.
was under control of the police early
to-day.
Accounts of the origin Of the
trouble differ. but the version ac-
cepted by the police to-day is that
the hghtinE started at the Twenty
ninth street bathing beach. where
the whites and colored people are
separated by an imaginary line. This
version of the affair says that ne
gro boy on a raft crossed the bound
airy line and that white boys threw
stones, knocking the colored lad in
TO the water. He was drowned 4
general fight developed between the
races, and riot calls brought hun
dreds OF police into the colored dis
trict, the center of which is around
Thirty-tirst and State streets, more
than mile from the beach. Ne
groes asked the police to arrest a
white, boy and when refused the ne
groes began to beat the white boy.
Colored bathers from another beach
at Twenty fifth street, attracted by
the fighting, came in force, and soon
stones and clubs were hurled in all
directions many people being in
jured.
After the fighting near the beach
had been quelled, trouble broke out
further west near the center of the
colored district. John O'Brien, a
policeman was attacked by a mob
after he had tried to rescue a fellow
policeman from a crowd of negroes
Several shots were fired toward him
and he was struck in the arm. He
fired into the crowd, three colored
men being hit, one of whom died
later in hospital.
After the police reserves had dis
persed the crowds along State street
and other parts of the thickly pop
ulated colored district, whites from
other parts of the city, dragged sew
eral negroes from street cars and
beat them severely, but according to
the police reports early to-day only
two fatalities resulted from the
rioting.
The two colored men who were
shot a Twenty ninth street, where
one was killed, are said to be serious
Iy though not fatally wounded. Many
stray shots were heard during the
night and police answered two riot
calls early to-day, but their SER
N.-oa We're not required in either in
stance.
1t is estimated that there are close
TO 10000 negroes in Chicago, nearly
$4,000 of whom were drawn here dur
ing the last three or four years by
tnv attractive wages in shops and
factories engaged in manufacturing
war material. Virtually all of the
negroes live on the South side of the
city and many have secured proper
ty in desirable neighborhoods occu-
pied by the whites. This has lead to
many minor clashes between the races.
and in a number of instances in re-
cent months bombs have been ex-
ploded in buildings occupied by ne
groes.