The daily banner., 1919-08-01
SOLDIERS AWE
CHICAGO M0Bs
The Death List Now Totals
Thirty-tWO.
RAIN AIDS TO QUIET
Soldiers Patrol Danger Districts and
Suppress Violent Disturbances.
Whites Resort to Torch.

Chicago, Aug. 1.-Two more victims
were added to the list of those Killed
in the race riots, bringing the total
number of dead to thirty-two.
The two who died of injuries were:
Isaiah Dozier, negro, fifty years old,
and Samuel n. Bankas, negro, nine
teen years old.
The police had found Isaiah DOzier
unconscious in a street near the stock
yards, where he had been attacked
by white men.
Chicago as a whole, however, was
comparatively calm for the first time
since Sunday, and public officials ex-
pressed the belief that the use of five
regiments of state troops has effectu-
ally quelled the race riots which re-
suited in thirty-two deaths and the
injury of more than 1000 persons.
State militiamen are patrolling the
danger districts on the South Side.
Their appearance on the streets has
had the effect of suppressing violent
disturbances. They were aided in
their work by a driving rain which
kept crowds from gathering in the
streets.
A dozen arrests were made Of
whites and negroes charged with car
rying concealed weapons, and there
were several sporadic fights between
white men and negroes, but no mob
attacks were reported.
Governor Frank o. Lowden in a
statement called attention to the fact
that the city was not under martial
law and that no such action is con-
templated unless conditions grow ma
terially worse.
He explained that the state troops
are working in connection with the
police and that rioters arrested will
be prosecuted in the municipal and
state courts, and not by military au-
thorities.
When Governor LoWden learned
that thousands of negroes who virtu-
ally have been held prisoners in their
homes since Sunday because Of the
race riots were in urgent need of food
he gave orders facilitating the deliv-
cry of supplies to the ''black belt, :"
and as a result many wagonloads OF
food were sent to the districts on the
South Side, where relief was seriously
needed.
Oscar Nelson, thirty-two years old,
white, was found in a West Side
street with two serious stab wounds
in his chest. The police believe he
was the victim of a race riot attack.
Minor encounters between small
groups. of whites and negroes were
speedily stopped by the state troops.
Several sarrested were made by the
militiamen. Soldiers captured me-
gro sniper on the roof of a building
in South State street. He had an au-
tomato revolver. He was turned over
to the police and his weapon confls-
Gated.
Funerals were held for twenty vic
tins of the race riots. Coroner Peter
Hoffman continued the taking Of tes-
timony at the inquest over the bodies
OF the victims, several witnesses be-
ing examined.
The fact that the whites had resort
ed to the torch, he said, was clearly
shown by fifty incendiary fires in
twenty-four hours in the negro dis
trict.
A squad of soldiers on duty at the
stockyards was attacked by crowd
Of white men. after they had rushed to
the aid of a negro who had been
beaten. The soldiers held the crowd
in check with bayonets and refrained
from shooting. Several wagonloads of
police were hurried to the scene and
the crowd dispersed. Several arrests
we're made.