Montpelier examiner. [volume] (Montpelier, Idaho) 1895-1937, 1919-08-01
CHICAGO SCENE OF
FIERCE RACE RIOTS
81 DEAD, HUNDREDS WOUNDED.
POLICE USE FIREARMS TO
QUELL DISORDERS.
More Troops CaIIed-Governor Makes
Appeal for Law and Order
Violence Spreads to Residential
Sections of City.

Chicago between whites
and blacks continued long after mid
night Tuesday night and several cas-
llalties were added to the list of ~
dead and hundreds of wounded. A
negro residence was burned by whites,
hut the occupants escaped. The Ninth
and Tenth regiments of Illinois troops
from Cairo were on the way to Chicago
to increase the available soldiers to
more than 1000, but none had taken
up patrol duty.
Despite fresh outbreaks tonight,
city officials at midnight professed
themselves satisfied with what the pO-
lice were doing, and several thousand
state troops remained in armories. At
that hour the death list totaled TWEEN
ty-seven, two negroes and two whites
having been killed during the evening
and another negro having died of
wounds received Monday. The i'm
jured list had been swelled by I'M
counted scores and several of the
wounded may not survive. Disturb
ances were reported from the south
side "black belt" an Italian district
on the west side and from the near
north side.
The first pitched battle of the night
occurred at Thirty-fifth and South
State streets, one of the centerS of
trouble since the first rioting Sunday.
A small automobile filled with whites.
each armed with a pistol, and all fir
ing indiscriminately at blacks, crashed
into a patrol wagon ut the street in
tersectiOn.
Two of the whites were killed in
the collision. The others and every
policeman in the patrol wakOn were
hurt
Immediately there was rush of
blacks and policemen to the wreck.
The police could not push the en-
ragged negroes away and opened fire,
killing one negro and wounding thirty
others.
The wounded policemen and whites
were placed in ambulances and a
crowd of whites followed them to the
Provident hospital. Outside that in
stitution, which is maintained and
managed by negroes, crowd OF blacks
had gathered and the two races quick
ly clashed.
A call for police brought strong
detail, who charged half dozen times
before the rioters were dispersed One
negro police sergeant and a dozen
rioters were wounded in this clash.
One of the whites wounded in the
fight at the automobile was Frank
Hoedek, an employe of the federal col
lector of internal revenue. He was
caught under the machine and negro
shot him in the face. The negro was
arrested.
A fatal affair also took place in the
west side Italian district. A negro
was knocked from bicycle, beaten
stabbed, wounded with sixteen revol-
YER bullets, and, after death had re-
lieved him. gasoline was poured on
his body and set fire.
Miles south of the black belt there
were fights in Woodlawn and in En-
glewood. A stray bullet from the lat
ter clash wounded an aged white wo-
man a block away.
The north side troubles conferred
around West Division street. There
was considerable shooting throughout
the Larrabee street police district, but
so far as could be learned no fatalities
resulted. Several negroes and num-
erou.. whites were arrested, most OF
the latter giving Italian names.