The daily banner., 1919-07-30
CHICAGO RACE
RIOTS CONTINUE
Twenty-Five Killed and Hundreds
Injured, Many Dying. {
CLASH IN COUNTY JAIL
Fifteen Whites and Ten Negroes on
the Death List-MiIitia officer Nor
tally Wounded.


the Death List-MiIitia Officer Nor
tally Wounded.
Chicago, July 30.-The authorities
are slowly subduing the race rioting
and restoring order.
The latest figures place the deah
list at twenty-five and many hundreds
injured. OF those killed fifteen were
whites and ten negroes.
The fighting centered mainly in the
heart of the 'tblack belt' along Thirty
fifth street, but spread To outside dis
tricts. To cope with the situation the
police massed reserves Of men, rifles,
patrol wagons, ambulances and motor
cycles in the vicinity. Some 4OO0
state troops were under arms in the
city and as many more were under
orders to be ready for emergency.
There were two dangerous fiare-nps
as far south as Fifty-frst and State
streets, and three vicious fights TOOK
place in the downtown district ON
Wabash avenue in broad daylight.
Governor Lowden, Adjutant Gene.
raj Dickson and various militia OIL
GERS, for the state, Chief Of Poollce
Garrity and Mayor Thompson, for the
city, and Coroner Peter Hoffman, OF
the county, stroye steadily to restore
order.
General Dickson, after tour or
the South Side, reported that rieting
was slowly subsiding and that the i'm
mediate use of state troops would not
be necessary. The automobile in
which General Dickson was riding
was fired on, but without damage to
the occupant.
Harold Rignadell, white, was riddl-
ed by bullets fred from house at
1921 South State street and killed.
When the police rushed the place
they found and arrested four women
and nine men, all negroes. Two re-
volvers, two raZors, an ak, several
knives and a quantity Of cartridges,
were discovered piled near a window
from which the negroes had been
shooting.
One of the most serious riots occur
red in the Cook county jail when 100
negro prisoners, exercising outside
their cells, overpowered negro guard
and raced into the exercise room OF
the white prisoners, where they were
between 600 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 pris-
oners, it was reported, carried knives
and a number OF white prisoners are
said to have been seriously wounded.
Major Fred Haynes, of the First
Illinois infantry, was found with
broken back In the center of the riot
area. He was not on duty, but cor
poral and a sergeant, who were mem
bers of the reserves, were wounded
during a clash with negroes Reports
from hospitals indicated dozen
wounded would die.
States Attorney Macley Hoyne is
sued a statement in which he declar-
ed politics is responsible for the trou-
BILE.
"The recent race riots are no sur
prise to me, and do not believe they
are a surprise to the officials of the
police department" he said. "The de-
partment is so demoralized by poll
ticians, both negro and white, on the
South Side that the police are afraid
to arrest men supposed to have politi
cal backing" DR.. George c. Hall, a
prominent negro. physician, expressed
similar views