Republican farmer., 1919-08-01
EOVERNOR APPEALS TO CITIZENS TO CEASE FATAL STREET COE1BATS
 VvRICH HAVE CAUSED DEATH OF 24
PENNED IN HOME BY ANGRY NEGRO GANG FAMILY ESCAPES BY BLACKING THEIR FACES AND EXPECTING DISGUISE
 CAR STRIKE ADDS TO DANGERS.

was shot in the side and J. N. Rinius was slashcd with a razor. Major Fred Haynes was found probably fla tally beaten. presumably by negroes. An automobile containing Adjutant General Dickson was fired on, but the occupants were unhurt.
 An exodus of negroes to the north and west sides began as the fighting was at it's heighth. The police took precautions to stop any resentment shown by whites at the added popu- ia1o1 Of Africans. This hegira was stopped at daybreak by the street car strike
 A few whites were penned in their homes by angry negroes and had to telephone for the police. A family managed to elude the negroes by blackins their faces and departing in disguise. But aside iron, a few such instances, persons living in or near the w3r scne were unmolested physically iS they remained within their dcnaiciies.
 Taxicab drivers, as news of the feui spread, refused to take passen- gers into the disturbed district, and residents who lived along the car lines that were stopped had long walks through the 1isid of battle As II sons suffered no aTronts If they went quietly along their way.
 Tire various art9ava owed their in itiative about equally to the two races, although the Co1casians seemed to be the prime aff5rcssols. the Africans starting their assaults more as coun- ter offerSivos. Most of the white riot CTS were young men.
 The police devoted much of their activity to clearing the streets of ne groes. o-r9 many of the fatalities re suited from the recaicicrancy of t!-e blacks arulrst the order to disperse In one crowd ct s5th street and State street, former Alderman DePriest a negro, YVES with a crowd of blacks or dercd te scatter. They refused, de- spite tle pleading of the former all Herman and two negro police ser geants. and the officers fired into the assembly, killing four and barely missing pePriest. 4 police captain in the black bel: ascrfbed the trouble to the hood1unlisn of negroes who came to Chtcago during the last two years to make mp the shortage in labor cat.Sed by the war. He said his expe- rience showed that the older residents saneiy refrained from such clashes, having been accustomed to the free dom allowed to blacks without turn ing 1t into license.
 During the night some night hos | pitals in the region became filled | and doctors were all over-w worked | caring for the injured. A negro corpse was taken into the establish ment of a white undertaken and | soon a crowd threatened to attack the place. News of this spread and | thereafter dead negroes would not | be accepted by white mortuaries. | When the streets had been cleared | in the negro section, the more per- | sistent rioters marched downtown i and sought out negroes at their work. The police fin these instances did not l offer protection to the blacks. One ! band entered a restaurant across the street from City Hall, wrecked part
 of the furnishings, dragged o porter | from the kitchen and beat him un-
 conscious with five gallon bottle.
 Afterwards several bluecoats arrived and dispersed the crowd.
 Governor Lowden, before turning
 back to help stop the riots, tele
 graphed the following appeal:
 T appeal to all citizens, white and
 colored, to obey the law. There are
 no wrongs committed by either race
 that cannot be better redresset
 through the orderly processes of law
 than by mob violence.
 The entire power of the state vii
 be used to restore order and punish
 those guilty of lawlessness It is time
 for all good citizens white or colored Ito aid the authorities in every way
 possible to uphold the law"