Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1919-07-30
States Attorney Hoyne
To Investigate Racial
Clash
DEATHS REACH27
NEARLY 1000 HURT
City Authorities Still Re
fuse To Call For Aid
OF Troops

CHICAGO, July 30 (By Associa-
ted Press) Bitter fighting between
whites and blacks spread during the
night to nearly all parts of Chicago.
with serious injuries to many, bat
the city authorities early today haa
not called on the state troops for aid.
The list of dead had reached IN
and the number of injured nearly
1000 since the beginning of the
riots Sunday.
States Attorney Hayne announced
today that the August grand jury
would investigate the riots and at-
tempt to fix the responsibility for
the outbreaks.
AdJutant General Dickson after a
tour of the trouble zone, reported
the situation much improved.
IL Whites, IS Negroes Dead.
According to police figures fifteen
negroes and twelve whites have been
killed since the rioting began.
The authenticated deaths in last
nights fighting were two. Both If
these were negroes. One was killed
IN the Italian district of the west
side, and Ira Henry, 40, was shot dead
when he wounded one of two police
men who sought to search him for
weapons at Fiftieth and State streets.
In other instances whites ana
blacks slashed each other with knives
shot from ambush or ran down iso-
lated members of the other race and
beat them into insensibility. There
was some looting Of abandoned resi-
dences and stores in the south side
belt and number of small fires were
ascribed to incendiarism.
The Ninth regiment from the south.
ern part of the state and the Tenth
from Central Illinois rushed toward
Chicago today to add their rifles ana
machine guns to the potential army
OF four regiments already here.
The police struggled vainly to clear
the rioters from the southside negre
quarter and early last night appar-
emily succeeded only to find that the
mob spirit had spread to other re-
gions.
Partly Burn Corpse.
On the west side whites attacked
negroes and in one case partly burn
ed the corpse of a victim with case
line. On the north side fighting pro-
ceeded for several hours and in the
residential districts, known as Wood
lawn and Englewood, on the far south
side, fierce fighting took place.
AS the overworked police force
dashed to those quarters several miles
from the center of the fighting zone,
the smoldering flames of anarchy
burst forth anew in the black belt. A
patrol wagon crashed into an auto
mobile filled with men and fight
followed that caused the probably ia
tai injury of three and the wounding
Of several others. The wounded were
taken to Providence hospital, a negro
institution, and crowd of whites at
tackled the infrmary, causing consid-
erable damage.
During the rest of the night, out
breaks occurred with regularity and
although only two fatalities were re-
ported from the nights orgy of ha-
tired. the number of severely hurt was
greater than for Monday night, prob
ably dozen suffering fatal hurts.
Porters Stay Indoors.
Sleeping car porters accepted an
offer of the company to house them
rather than go home and the jazz
band concert at the municipal pier
vas called off because the negro mn-
icians refused to perform.
No large mobs invaded the black
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