Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-29
For About Five Hours Mon
day Night Area On South
Side Is Battle Ground of
Scattered Clashes.
MORE THAN TWO SCORE
REPORTED WOUNDED
Four Regiments of National
Guardsmen Modified and
Sent to Que|| Turbulence;
Can't Fix Casualties in Full.

Chicago, July 29.-After a hasty
survey of conflicting reports early
today the police said that while
there were only seven known
dead. it is not unlikely that the
number killed in the race riots will
be increased to from 10 to IS.
1T is simply impossible to de-
termine the exact number, for the
casualties were taken broadcast .
before records were made" Chief
of Police Garrity's office an
nounced.
Chicago. July 2S.-Seven persons
were killed and more than two-score
wounded, many of them seriously,
ii; renewal of race riots in the Chi
cago "blacx belt Monday night.
For more than five hours the five
mile area on the south side was
battle ground of scattered fights be-
tween whites and blacks and be-
tween policemen and negroes, who
fired from house tops, from dark
alleys and other points of vantage.
The call for troops to quell the
outbreaks resulted in four regiments
OF nstonal guardsmen being mob
llized, but at late houS they had
not been dispatched to the disturbed
district and Chief of Police Garrity
expressed the belief that the worst
Of ths disol der had passed.
, Five OF the dead are negroes and
Two are whites.
There was no concerted battle BY
the blacks, the outbreaks dotting \
large area
Every police station on the south
side was flooded with reports OF
death and injuries.
Can't Number Casualties.
Chief of Police Garrity, at a late
hour, said that it was impossible to
make an exact estimate of the cas-
ualtles because of the contradictory
reports
The riots which started Sunday
on the south side beaches, were re-
newed when negro laborers began
leaving the big industrial plants and
by dusk more than a score of sep
arate outbreaks had occurred.
Whites began dragging negroes
from street cars. the negroes re-
tallated with stones and knives.
Street cars in the heart of the
"blacE: belt' were tied up and the
windows smashed
"a flying squadron" of blacks
mounted touring car and riding at
full speed through the section
known as "No-Man's s-Land," sent
volley Of shots at group OF whites.
One white woman was injured, but
not fatally. The negroes were over
taken after a long chase and placed
under arrest.
Shortly afterward, a mob Of sew
eral hundred blacks formed at
Thirty-ffth street and began ston-
ing policeman. In twinkling gun
fire was opened and four of the ne
groes fell, all mortally wounded.
Stab White Man to Death.
A white man in the same neigh
borhood was dragged from truck
and stabbed to death.
A negro chauffeur was killed by
whites a few minutes later in the
same block.
Scores of arrests were made, but
where the rioters were found to be
unarmed they were released.
Negroes began looting stores of
whites in one district shortly after
the firing of revolvers by a squad
of policemen in an effort to break
up a fight over a small purchase of
groceries. The police soon emptied
their guns. The looting continued
until special squad of police,
armed with rifles, arrived. They
fired low, telling half a dozen
blacks.
A white woman was pulled from
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