The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1919-08-01
RIOTS In CHICAGO
STILL CONTINUE

Trouble Blamed on Politicians Who
Sought to Exploit the Negro
Vote.
Chicago, July 29.-With twenty
four dead and hundreds injured,
scores of them seriously, sporadic
rioting between whites and negroes
was reported renewed tonight in va
rious sections of the city, including
the small north side area populated
by negroes. City and State officials,
including Governor Lowden, remain
ed on the scene throughout the night
and expressed the opinion that worst
of the rioting was ended.
The most serious situation was re-
ported in the south negro belt where
thousands of negroes and whites had
gathered.
The whites organized after two
wounded white men were taken to
the hospital which also received white
patients. The rifle squad from the
detective bureau was ordred to the
scene.
The wounded whites were struck
by bullets said to have been fired
by about thirty negroes at Thirty
Fifth and State streets following a
collision between two police patrol
wagons in which two men were re-
ported killed and several policemen
injured.
Whites had gathered virtually all
over Northside and Loop police were
ordered to this district thus leaving
almost without police protection Sec
tions from which came reports Of in
termittent outbreaks.
A sinister silence that prevailed in
the negro belt on the south side at
dusk gave way to confusion and
sharp clashes, principally with clubs
and knives as weapons, as the night
wore on. s,,,- 49,.
! Where these outbreaks occurred,
the negroes predominated in num-
bers. Several meetings at negro halls
were broken up by the police after
which crowds formed on the streets.
In the early night clashes, various
weapons were used, including table
knives and slingshots. Few guns ap-
peared.
The coroner's death lists showed
that thirteen negroes and eleven
whites had been killed.
Troops Are Ready.
Troops had not been ordered to pa
troll the negro belt the police main
tanned that they were still able to
handle the situation. Four regiments
of state troops were in barracks
ready for duty tonight. The soldiers,
plentifully supplied with ammunition
were distributed about the Southside
negro district as a support line to
powerful police forces concentrated
within the trouble zone.
In addition to the four regiments
on the ground two other National
G.. II regiments and three reserve
10 ia units were mobilized at vari-
GUS towns throughout the State
awaiting word to entrain for Chicago.
This gave a potential military force
of approximately $500 men.
Policemen Everywhere.
The city authorities expressed con-
fidence that the police would be able
to handle any trouble that developed
tonight Every block in the district
bounded north and south by Twenty.
second and Thirty-ninth streets and
east and west by Cottage Grove anG
Wentworth avenue was patrole0
closely. The main disturbance points
were guarded by dozen policemen
to the block, with reinforcements OF
mounted men and additional patrol.
men at each intersection, while every
police station was filled with reserves
armed with rifles. The police con.
centration was the most complete in
the city's history, excepting even tina!
which coped successfully with Hay
market anarchists more than thrcs
decades ago. Early tonight the Of.
ficial lists issued by the coroner's Of.
flee had reached twenty-one, an in.
crease of twelve over last night, and
244 persons had been reported to TIE
police as having been injured.