The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1919-07-30
Many Houses Were Set on
Fire Last Night, and
There Was Some LOOting
"A Policeman Was Shot
While Depriving a Negro
of Weapons and Latter
Fell from Another Police
mans Bullet.

Chicago, July 80 Bitter fighting be-
tween whites and negroes spread last
night to all parts of Chicago, the seri.
Gus casualties being more numerous than
at any similar period in the racial war.
The city authorities made no call for
troops and in the absence of such re-
quest Governor Frank 0. Dowden could
not order the soldiers to take charge, al
though with the arrival to-day of two
more regiments, 5000 well armed men
were resting on their arms.
While the state soldiers completed
two days work of polishing bayonets
and filing cartridge clips, the death list
mounted to 27. An incorrect police re-
port last night had sent it higher, but
investigation showed that no one had
been killed in a spectacular automobile
crash and race fight at 35th and State
streets. The authenticated deaths in last
nights fighting were two, both 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
policemen who sought to search him for
weapons at 50th and State streets.
In other instances, whites and blacks
slashed each other with knives, shot
from ambush or ran down isolated mem
bers Of the other race and beat them
into insensibility. There was some loot
ing of abandoned residences and stores
in the south side black belt and mum.
Der of small fires were aseribed to in
cendiarism.
The ninth regiment from the south
ern part of the state and the tenth from
central Illinois, rushed toward Chicago
to-day to add their rifles and machine
guns to the potential army already here
Whites Partly Burned Negro Corpse
The police strove to clear the rioters
from the south side negro quarter and
early last night apparently succeeded,
only to find that the mob spirit had
spread to other regions. On the west
side whites attacked negroes, and in one
case partly burned the corpse of a vic
tim with gasoline. On the north side
fighting proceeded for several hours, and
in the residential districts known as
Woodlawn 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 war, the smouldering flames
of anarchy burst forth anew in the black
belt. A patrol wagon crashed into an
automobile filled with men and fight
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injury of three men and the woundng
of several others. The wounded were
taken to Proyident hospital, a negro in
stitution, and crowd of whites attack
ed the infrmary, causing considerable
damage.
The whites again seemed to be the
more aggressive, the negroes having been
converted to peace by saner mmbers Of
their race, or cowed by the beatings sus-
tanned by scores 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
was called off because the negro musi-
clans refused to perform.
Ambushes Were Laid.
Owing to the street car strike the
comparatively few white rioters in the
total population could not so handily get
together last night and no large mobs
invaded the black belt. 1t was mostly
guerilla warfare, but exceedingly bitter.
In some cases men would lie hidden along
boulevard and fire on passing cars oc-
cupied by the members of the opposite
race In Others few whites would as
sault a building occupied by negroes in
the midst of white neighborhood, drag
ging forth a victim to be beaten.
The street car strike also helped the
negroes, as a fayorite form Of attack on
the first night of the disorder was to en-
ter a street car and drag negro from
the vehicle to the street, where he was
beaten or killed. The police have col
lected yeritable arsenal of weapons
since the rioting began. Every hour a
score or more of negroes are hustled into
police stations and deprived of revolvers
daggers and razors. But arms and am
munitiN still seemed to be plentiful
To start the third day of warfare
Patrolman Walter Sullivan was shot
probably fatally, by a negro whom he
was searching in vacant lot. As Sulli-
van fell, his partner John Keal, shot the
negro dead. During the night 10 other