Norwich bulletin., 1919-07-29
Seven Persons Killed
 inC'licago Race Riots

Five Are Negroes and Five
 Are Whites = Four Regi-
 ments of Guardsmen Are
 Being Mobilized.
 were killed and more than two score wounded, many of them seriously. in renewal of race riots in the Chi cago black belt' tonight For more than five hours the i've mile area on the South Side was a battle ground of scattered fights be- tween whites and bla cks and between poiicemen and negroes who fired from house tops. from dark alleys and oth- CT points of vantage The call for troops to queH the out breaks resulted in four regiments of national gnardsmen being mobilized, not been dispatched to the disturbed district and Chief of Police Garrity expressed the belief that the worst of the disorder had passed. Five of the dead are negroes and two are whites.
 There was no concerted battle by the blacks. the outbreaks dotting a large area.
 hour, said that it was impossible to make an exact estimate of the cas- -ualties because of the contradictory reports.
 
 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 sepa- rate outbreaks had occurred. Whites began dragging negroes from street cars. the negroes retaliated with stones and knives. Street cars in the heart of the "blacll belt' were tied up and the windows smashed.
 A flying squadron" of blacks mounted a touring car and riding al full speed through the section sent Nolley of shots at group of whites. One white woman was injured but not fatally. The negroes were overtaken after long chase and placed under arrest.
 Shortly afterward mob of several hundred blacks formed at Thirty Fifth street and began stoning a po- liceman. Gunfire was opened and four of the negroes fell. all mortally wounded.
 A white man in the same neighbor- hood was dragged from a truck and stabbed to death.
 A negro chauffeur was killed by whites 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 footing stores of whites in one district shortly after the firing ol revolvers by squad of 
 fight over a small purchase of grocer ies. The police soon. emptied their guns. The footing continued until special squad of police. armed with half a dozen blacks A white woman was pulled from a street car by a me- gro. He was soon lying unconscious against the curb. The angry whites left him for dead.
 Groups of blacks formed in foot ball fashion and charged against the whites with razors and clubs. On one corner the scene was like miniature battlegrouhd. Unconscious negroes and whites dotted the street AS they regaihed consciousness they were ar rested permitted to leave the neighborhood.
 While the main battles were in pro- gress, women. blacks and whites. bat tied away in front yards with brooms and missiles. In one of these fights white woman was knocked uncon- scious and taken to a hospital.
 In one fracaS on Thirty Fourth street. negroes knocked two policemen unconscious and were drawing pis- toIs when a group of discharged ne- gro soldiers came to the rescue of the whites. In another battle soon after three policemen were shot. One may die.
 In an effort to prevent quick dis patch of rifle bearing policemen from one section to another. the negroes  wires.
 The blacks began firing on street car conductors and motormen when they refused to allow negro passen- gers to board their cars became of threats made by white passengers. One conductor was reported shot in the leg.
 A number of wounded negroes crept into alleys and other dark places. When they were found they were hur- ried to the Prevalent Hospital for Co1ored which, for several hours. re- jured.
 The more seriously wounded ne- groes received at the hospital had participated in a battle with whites near Thirty-F'ifth and State streets Several thousand of the blacks con- eregated at this point within a pc riod of ten minutes. It was an or derly gathering for a time. Sudden lv four maddened negroes raced up the street and surrounded the home of a white man. In twinklinS shots began to fly in all directions Per fell. Some were carried off by com panions. street negro snipers fired from mousse tops and windows. Not single death resulted from this method of warfare, however.
 After threats had been made by whites to clean up" the stock yards district. a small army of negroes form ed ready to meet the challenge. An automobile load of negroes started over the district to estimate the num- Der of whites present They were stoned. Then they drew revolvers and (continued on Page Eight Col. Five)