The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-08-01

in the loop, the police ordered G
picked men from the detective bureau
/, to arm with rifles and form a line
} about the city hall and county build.
ing.
After a motorman had been drag.
ged from his car and killed by a group
of maddened blacks shortly before mid.
night and a dozen street cars com
pletely wrecked, the street car com
pany ordered that no more cars be
taken into the troubled area The ell
evated trains also quit running ir
dangerous territory.
Pool rooms, moving pictures houses
and other gathering places in the
black belt were ordered closed and
the coroner began an investigation of
the cause of the riots.
TEN RIOTS IN AN HOUR.
Chicago, July 29.-The action OF
Mayor Thompson in asking for troops
it was said, was taken only after it
had become evident that the city po-
lice force was inadequate to maintain
order in the Five Mile district, where
as many as ten riots had developed
in an hour.
Several hundred negroes, many of
them flashing knives and guns, congre-
gated early tonight near South State
street and 35th. After numerous mi
nor fights most. of them were dispers-
ed. In one of the outbreaks a white
man was reported stabbed to death.
All available policemen were hurried
to the district.
In the meantime special police and
detectives had cleared other districts
where the outbreaks had become fire.
quent during the day. The police said
the negroes were terror-stricken and
appeared on the streets only in groups,
which gathered in alleys and then ran
at full speed to their destination.
The police were making special eff
fort to break up numerous secret
meetings of the negroes in halls and
flat buildings.
Numerous riot calls were turned in
early tonight, but in a majority of
cases the clashes involved only a score
or more of blacks and whites.
When the negroes began leaving the
big industrial plants crowds of white
men gathered and it was only with
difficulty that the police prevented
bloodshed. Negroes were dragged
from street cars and thrown to the
ground. Then they retaliated by
treating white men likewise.
Patrol wagons threaded their way
through crowds and leaders in many
clashes were arrested. When negroes
were brought to the stations there
were cries Of "lynch them" No at
tempt was made, however, to take the
negroes from the police. Many of
those arrested were detained only tenn
porarily. Those carrying guns and
knives were placed in Jail.
Chief of Police Clarity said every
effort would be made by police re-
serves to maintain order, but was not
optimistic V e the outlook.
Blames Politicians.
Numerous conferences were held by
the authorities. After one of these,
States Attorney Hoyne issued a state
ment charging that politicians teach
ing the colored element disrespect for
the law was the basic reason for the
riots.
"The police department has been
demoralized to such an extent by the
politicians, black and white, on the
south side, that they are afraid to ar
rest and prosecute men with political
backing or who claim to have political
Influence" the statement said.
A flying squadron" of blacks
mounted in a touring car and riding
at full speed through the section known
as mo mans land" sent a volley of
shots at a group of whites. One white
woman was injured, but not fatally
The negroes We're overtaken after a
long chase and placed under arrest.
Shortly afterward a mob of sever.
al hundred blacks formed at 35th
street and began stoning a police
man. In a %twinkling gunfire was
opened and four of the negroes fell
all mortally wounded.
A white man in the same neighbor.
hood was dragged fro ma truck anC
stabbed to death.
A negro chauffeur was killed b,
whites a few minutes later in the
same block. Scores of arrests were