The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-07-31
CHICAGO STILL IN
GRIP OF VIOLENT
RACIAL HATREDS
SERIOUS CASUALTIES LAST NIGHT
MORE NUMEROUS THAN ANY
PERIOD HERETOFORE
B,OOO TROOPS MARK TIME
City Authorities Siill Decline Aid From
SOldiers-Rioting Goes on i'm South,
West and North Sides-Whites Apply
Torch TO HOr'es Of Negroes-Coron-
er's Jury Made Up of Lawyers, Doc
tors and Clergymen.

Chicago, July 3V.-CoHparatiVe calHl
marked this mornings situation in the
Chicago race war. No serious outbreaks
had been reported, the sporadic fights
were few and mstly between individuals.
r and in only one instance were police
compelled to shoot. In that case,
negro was killed while resisting search
by two patrolmen.
Gov Frank o. Lowden and other state
and city officials were plainly encour-
aged by the diminishing evidences of
mob spirit Although nearly every mil
itiam n in the state was either in the
city or en- route here, it was indicated
that they probably will not be called to
active duty in the streets.
Il believe that we have passed the
crisis" said Governor Lowden. Il be-
Eeve that the mayor and chief of police
are right in refraining from asking for
soldiers. Sending the troops into the
troubled districts might arouse some an
tagonsms, and then when they were
withdrawn fresh trouble might break
our
With the lull in rioting the police took
stock. They checked the coroner's of
was complete.
Bitter and vindictive fighting be-
tween whites and negroes spread last
night to all parts of Chicago, the serl-
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 request Gov. Frank o. Lowden
ba cpltiars take
charge, although with the arrival today
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 filling cartridge clips, the death
list mounted to 27. An incorrect police
report last night had sent it higher,
but investigation showed that no one
had been killed in a spectacular auto
mobile crash and race riot at Thirty
fifth and State streets.
The authenticated deaths in last
nights fighting were two, both ne
groes. One was killed in the Italian
district of the West Side. and Ira Hen
nv. 40 was shot dead when he wound
ed one Of two policemen who sought
to search him for weapons at Fiftieth
and State streets.
In other instances whites and negroes
slashed each other with knives, shot
from ambush or ran down isolated
members of the other race and beat
them into nsensibility. There was
some looting of abandoned residences
and stores in the South Side black belt,
and a number Of small fires were
ascribed to incendiarism.
Down-State Troops Arrive
The Ninth regiment from the south
ern part of the state and the Tenth
from central Illinois rushed toward
Chicago during the night to add their
rifles and machine guns to the poten'
tal army which lay at rest, listening
TO the shots and shouts of the victors
in various street fights and the cians'
ing of patrol wagons and ambuiances
bearing away the wounded and dying
The police struggled to clear the riot
ers from the South Side negro quar-
ter. and early last night apparently
succeeded, only to find that the mop
spirit had spread like plague to other
regions. On the West Side, Italians
attacked negroes and in one case part
" burned the body of victim with
gasoline On the North Side, fighting
proceeded for several hours, and IN
tbe residential districts known as Wood
lawn and Englewood on the far South |
Side fierce fighting took place.
Whites Attack Negro Hospital
AS the overworked police force dash
ed to these quarters several miles from
the center of the war, the smolderlng
flames of anarchy burst forth anew in
lal A natrOl wagon crashed /
into an automobile filled with hoodlums
and a fight followed that caused the
nroba BILE fatal injury of three men ana
tho vounding of several others. The
wounded were taken to Provident Hos
pital. a negro institution, and crowd
of whites attacked the building caus'
ing considerable damage.
During the remainder of the night
outbreaks occurred with regularity;
and although only one fatality was re-
ported from the nights orgy of hatred
the number of severely injured was
greater than for Monday night, prob
ahlv a dozen suffering fatal hurts.
owing to the street car strike, the
comnaratively few white rioters in the
total population could not so handily
got together last night, and no large
mobs invaded the black belt. 1t was
mostly guerilla warfare. but exceed
,nglv bitter. In some cases men would
lie hidden along a boulevard and fire
on passing cars occupied by negroes
Negro Homes Attacked
Tn others a few whites would assault
a building occupied by negroes in the
rn;dst of a white neighborhood, drag
gine forth a victim to a brutal beating,
or limping away. wounded by the sue
cessful defender of a fireside.
The cnr strike also helped the ne
eroes. as a favorite form of attack on
the first night of the disorder was to
enter a street car and drag negro
from the vehicle to the street, where
he was manned or killed.
The police have collected veritabie
arsenal of weapons since the rioting
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