The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-30

Chicago July 29.-Race riotine
spread outside the South Side coloreC
district today. There was serious
lighting and shooting in the loop earl!
n the forenoon. The exclusive North
side residential district received touch
Of disorder.
Killings continued after daybreak
bringing the number of dead in police
reports up to "a by mid.forenoon, ant
hundreds were injured. The police had
Inder investigation three other report
ad killings. The list of "a included IA
whites and 10 negroes.
The street car strike seemed to aid
:he spread Of race rioting, which surged
np 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.
Several battalions of state troops We're
under arms in armories or parks await
Ing possible call by the city. Meanwhile,
he entire police force was dealing with
he riots.
-Four more, victims in the race riots in
he negro quarters of Chicago were
found today. Estimates of persons who
passed through the streets and alleys
where fighting, which was renewed
asst night, did not cease until we'll after
midnight, placed the total dead as high
as So and the injured at 500, but the
police could find no authority for these
figures.
One identified negro was killed and
two negroes We're wounded at Wabash
dnd Adams streets, the heart of the
downtown district in rioting which was
renewed shortly after O'Clock this
morning.
Joseph Powers. white, a street car
conductor was shot and killed soon
after daylight in the stockyards section.
William Henderson, negro, was ar
rested on suspicion in connection with
the killing.
Racial disorders spread to the North
Side today, where a number of negroes
were chased and threatened. Very few
negroes live on the North Side.
The police list of riot fatalities rose to
"a at 80 a. m when Thomas Joshua
negro, was killed by detective who
fired into a crowd of rioters on the
South Side. and when B. F.. Gardy,
negro, died at hospital.
A vicious race fight broke out in the
county Jail shortly after II o'clock.
The whites outnumbered the blacks
BY 20 to 1. and the guards were swept
aside when they tried to stifle the trou
BILE, at it's start.
1000 Troops Await Orders
Four thousand soldiers with full war
equipment stood ready today to quell
the race rioting between negroes and
whites that during two bloody nights
of terror in the south side black belt
cost the lives of at least % persons,
white and black. and the injury of hun
dreds of others, many seriously and
probably dozen fatally. Four of
the; injured are soldiers. The police
and the coroner have have been unable |
TO make a complete check of the cas-
ualties, but reports last night, Shove"
22 Killed.
A hundred thousand negroes and
an equal number of whites either
fought in the streets and alleys or
covered in their homes while shots
rang out. mounted policemen galoped
along the boulevards, patrol wagons
IA shed back and forth with prisoners
and wounded, and women and children
as men fought with cudgels,
knives and fists.
When the rioting. which started sun
DAY night with the stoning and drown
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