Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-07-31
I MORE KILLED
IN CHICAGO RIOTS
Two Score Are WOunded-Race
War Is Renewed in the City's
"Black Belt" at Nightfall-
Outbreaks Dot a Large Area
TROOPS ORDERED OUT
Negroes Loot stores OF Whites-RazOrs.
Clubs and Pistols Are Used--white
Women and Black Women Clash
Some of the Police Use Rifles

Chicago, July 2s.--Seven persons were
many of them seriously, in renewal of
race riots in the Chicago black belt to-
night.
For more than five hours the five mile
area on the south side was Il battle ground
Of scattered fights between white and
blacks and between polceme and negroes
who fired from house tops from dark al
lesy and other points of vantage.
The call for troopsh to quell the out
breaks resulted in four regiments of ma
tional guardsmen being mobili2cd but at
late hour tonight they had not been
despatched to the district and Chief of
Police Clarity expressed the belief that
the worst of the disorder had passed.
Five of the dead are negroes and two
are whites
The wounded in most cases were hur-
red to hospitals, after which they were
removed to their homes when conditions
permitted,
There was no concerted battle by the
blacks, the outbreaks dotting a large
area.
Every police station in the south side
was flooded with reports of deaths and
injuries.
Chief of Police Clarity, at a late hour
said that it was impossible to make an
exact estimate of the casualties because
of the contradictory reports.
The riots. which started yesterday on
the south side beaches. were renewed
when negro laborers began leaving the
big industrial plants and by dusk more
than a score of separate outbreaks had
occurred. Whites began dragging negroes
from street cars, the negroes retaliated
with stones and knives. Street cars in
the heart of the "black belt" were tied
up and the windows smashed.
A flying squadron" of blacks mounted
touring car and riding at full speed
through section sent a volley of shots
at a group of whites. One white woman
was injured but not fatally. The negroes
were overtaken after a long chase and
placed under arrest.
Shortly afterward n mob of several
hundred blacks formed at Thirty-f1fth
street and began stoning a policeman.
Gun fire was opened and four Of the
negroes fell all mortally wounded.
white man in the same neighborhood
was dragged from a truck and stabbed
to death.
a negro chauffeur was killed by whites
Il few minutes later in the same block.
Scores of arrests were made, but
where the rioters were found to be UNI
armed they were released.
Negroes began looting stores of whites
IN one district shortly after the firing Of
reviewers by squad of policemen in an
effort to break up fight over a small
purchase of groceries The police empted
their guns. The looting continued until
special squad of police, armed with
rifles, arrived. They fired low, Telling
half a dozen blacks. A white woman
was pulled from n street car by a negro.
He was soon lying unconscious against
the curb. The angry whites left him
for dead.
Groups of blacks formed in football
fashion and charged against whites with
'azors and clubs. on one corner the
scene was like a miniature battle ground.
Unconscious negroes and whites dotted
the street AS they regained conscious
ness they We're arrested or permitted to
leave the neighborhood.
While the main battles were in prog
ress women, blacks and whites, battled
away in front yards with brooms and
missiles. In one of these fights a white
woman was knocked unconscious and
taken to a hospital
In one fracas on 34th street negroes
knocked two policemen unconscious and
were uId"ing pSlolS Wnen group OF
discharged negro 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 dispatch
of rifle bearing policemen from one sec
ton to another. the negroes began cut
ting telephone and telegraph wires
The blacks began firing on street car
conductors and motormen when they re-
fused to allow negro passengers to board
their cars because of threats made by
white passengers. One conductor was
reported shot in the leg.
Ambulances and patrol wagons thread
ed their way through the black belt
throughout the early hours of the night.