New-York tribune., 1919-07-30

: cred piled near window from which
the negroes had been shooting.
One of the most serious riots Of
the LAY occurred in the Cook County
jail when one hundred negro prison
crs, exercising outside their cells,
overpowered a negro guard and raced
into the exercise room of the white
prisoners. where there were between
500 and 700 men. When the negroes
burst in there was an instant clash.
The regular force of guards was
unable to control the fighters and so
locked the doors and appealed for aid.
The prisoners fought for an hour be-
fore they were beaten into submission
with clubs. Several of the negro
knives and a number of white prison
ers are said to have been seriously
| wounded.
Race rioting spread outside the South
Side colored district. There was ser-
Gus fighting and shooting in the Loop
early in the forenoon. The exclusive
North Side residential district received
a touch of disorder.
Strike Increases Disorder
The street-car strike seemed to aid
the spread of race rioting which surged
up from the South Side into the Loop
on the heels of thousands walking to
work who ordinarily ride. Streets. ordi-
narily almost deserted early in the day
were busy with pedestrians, mostly
! men and boys, whose numbers afforded
rich opportunities for racial quarrels.
Joseph Powers, white, a street-car
conductor, was shot and killed soon
after daylight in the stockyards sec
ton. William Henderson, negro,
was arrested on suspicion, in connec-
tion with the killing.
and two negroes were wounded at Wa
bash and Adams streets, the heart of
the downtown district, in rioting which
was renewed shortly before O'Clock
this morning.
Among those injured last night were
three members of the 7th Regiment
who were beset by negroes while on
the way to their armory. Corporal W.
|. Riggs was shot in the back; Charles
I. Williams was shot in the side. and
J. \. Rinkus was slashed with a razor.
Major Frederick Haynes was found
probably fatally beaten. presumably
by negroes. An automobile containing
Adjutant General Dicson was fired on,
but without damage to the occupants.
pants.
Negroes Quit Black Belt
An exodus Of negroes to the North
and West sides began as the fighting
was at its height. Some fifty thousand
more negroes already live in those
parts of the city, and the police took
precautions to stop any resentment
tion of Africans. This hegira was
stopped at daybreak by the streetcar
strike.
When the streets hao peen cleared
in the negro section the more per-
sis.ent rioters marched downtown and
sought out negroes at their work The
police in these instances did not offer
protection to the blacks. One band en-
cered a restaurant across the street
from the City Hall, wrecked part of the
furnishings, dragged a covering porter
scious with a tivegallon bottle After
ward several bluecoats arrived and dis
persed the crowd.
Governor Lowden before coming
here to help stop the riots telegraphed
the following appeal:
II appeal to all citizens. white and
coored, to obey the law. There are no
wrongs committed by either race that
cannot be better redressed through the
orderly processes of law than by mob
violence
The entire power of the state will
be used to restore order and punish
those guilty of lawlessness. 1t is time
for all good citizens, white or colored
to aid the authorities in every way pos
sible to uphold the law
in an effort to aid in ending the
race disturbances, forty-five negro
clergymen met to-day and reconime nd
ed that a committee of 1O0 composed
Of representative white men and
negroes be named Immediately to de-
wise plans for restoring order.
Other recommendations made by the
clergymen we're:
That all open vice and gambling in
the negro district be eliminated at
once.
That negro men and women join la
Dor unions of their craft wherever
possible.
That negro speakers be sent through
the district to advise the residents
against following the leadership of
those advocating violence.
The clergymen declared that practi-
cally all the clashes have been between
white and negro workmen