Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-07-29
CLASHES EXTEND TO
LOOP; $500 MILITIA
TROOPS AWAIT CALL
Chicago, July 29.-F urious rioting between
negro and white prisoners in the county JAIL street
fighting in the heart of the city and thruout the

he city and thruout the
side negro section
and barricaded house
turned into an ambush
for the whites today, brought the roll
of the racial feud which began Sum-
day to the grim total Of thlrty-one
dead and more than 500 wounded,
many of them seriously. 80. -.
OF those killed sixteen were white
men and fifteen were negroes
AS the report of shootings and kill
ings poured in, Mayor William Hale
Thompson and Governor Lowden went
into conference to discuss the situa-
ton, particularly with refernec to the
possible need of troops to quell the
disturbances. Both the governor and
the mayor earlier in the day issued
proclamations appealing to the citi-
zens, both white and black to remain
calm.
The outbreak in the county Jail
came when rs negro prisoners who
had been herdcd together in the bull
pen. in preparation for the customary
visitors day, became enraged and at
tackled guards and attorneys who
were visiting clients in the jail.
With the walls of the jail echoing
with the bowling and cursing of the
prisoners, the negroes broke out OF
the bull pen and swept thru the cor
ridors of the JAIL, assaulting guards
and white prisoners. Several guards
and prisoners were badly beaten.
Another mob of whites in the down.
town district rushed the Palmer
House and shouted threats at ne
groes employed in the basement. The
police dispersed the mob without cas-
ualties.
Before the sun was up this morn
ing mobs of white men were gather
ing in the downtown business district
muttering:
Lets treat the negroes as they
are treating white folks on the south
side"
One of the first demonstrations oc-
CURED at the federal building where
hundreds of negroes are employed.
A mob gathered there and negroes
who could hear the bowling crowd
appealed for protection,
Twenty-Five special police were
rushed to the federal building and at
tempted to dispense the mob. Many
Of the whites refused to move on and
several clashes occurred. Fearing
that violence and blOodshed would re-
suit the department officials OF the
, losLoiYice arranged to have colored
d, clerks removed from the building
Under Toicc guard the negroes were
= taken from the building and sent to
postonice substations in outlying sec
tions White clcrks were hurriedly
: summoned to take their places.
! Half dozen encounters between
, the police and rioting mobs occurred
in the loop" district within half an
hour.
! William Hayes. negro, encounter
/. cd mob of muttoring white men
r.. and when the police rescued him he
!. was bleeding and badly beaten
, Morris Butler, colored, employed in a
, downtown restaurant was made the
s target of a barrage Of sugar bowls
s plates and other crockery hurled by
r a mob which sought to drive hin
from the restaudant. He was badly
r cut and maulcd,
!. Another mob encountered negro
g. at Franklin and Washington stree
and chased him The black man op
ened fire with a revolver and thu
crowd fell back, but stray bulle
struck and wounded Frank Lee, wh
was driving past in his automobile
one unidentified negro, encounter
d ing the mob near one of the larges
" downtown buildings, started to run i
r terror He was shot and Instant
" killed
" Troops Are Called.
y, Chicago. July 29.--Chicagos Sout
." side is virtually under martial la
following the rioting in the race wa
witch began sunday. continued inte
=, ,' mttcutly throughout Yesterday an
II. famed mp in a tumuIt Of disorder du
~ ing the night
U.s. Reports this morning place the nur
'@ her Of dead at twenty while the |
Nrod number more than 100, Fou
teen are definitely known to he dea
their bodies being in morgues and II
Of .--.------.-- -.---------------------.----