Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1919-07-24
|DIRIClBLE FALLS
ON BANK BUILDING
II DEAD, 26 HURT
MANY KILLED AND
INJURED MIRAGE
RlOTSAT CAPITAL
Police Assisted By Provost
Guards Unable To Cope
With Situation.

Guards Unable To Cope
With Situation.
(By the Associated Press)
Washington, July 22.-Another
night of rioting found the national
capital counting the largest casualty
list it has had since the soldiers,
sailors and marines and civilians be-
gan long lists of daylight holdups
which have alarmed teh city. There
are four known dead, two mortally
wounded, eight or more seriously
wounded, and an unknown number
of slightly wounded, or injured, and
the police stations and hospitals are
filled with others as a result OF the
most disorderly time the national
capital has seen since the civil war.
Altho reinforced with provost guards
Of troops of squadrons of cavalry pa
trolling Pennsylvania avenue, the po-
lice were apparently as unable to
cope with the situation as they were
during the celebrated demonstration
of March 8, 1913, when the crowd
completely overran them and all but
mobbed those parading on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. The score of casual
ties in last nights riot was largely in
favor Of tie negroes. From trolleys
and swiftly moving automobiles, ae-
gro desperados in parties and single
ly shot into groups of whites. AL
night there was scattered firing from
which the negroes terror stricken
but not quelled had barricaded them
selves.
Washington, July PA procia-
nation by vice-president Marshall
to end race rioting, which resulted
in the killing of S persons and injar-
ing at least so, was issued today.
Several days of disorder, following a
wave of attacks on white women,
robberies and assaults by negroes
culiminated in a series of race battles
during, the night, which the police
were unable to cope with fully even
with the aid of provost military
guards. Several of the injured were
fatally hurt, and over 200 were un-
der arrest. The dead include Detec-
tive Harry Wilson, shot thru the
heart by a negroe girl when he enter
ed house from which she was mr.
ing into the street. Four negroes
are dead and. several others are be-
lieved to have been fatally wounded.
8 patrolmen were included in the list
as badly wounded. Altho two troops
from Fort Meyer have been called
out to patrol the streets and 400
from Quantico and Washington ma
rine barracks had been added to pro-
vost military guards as precaution,
the situation at times last night was
more than the authorities could cope
with. s{@
Reserve squads on provost guard
were being rushed thru the streets
all night in answer to riot calls.
Soldiers To Guard.
Washington, July 21.The gov
ernment intervened today to prevent
a reoccurance Of the attack made
Saturday and Sunday by soldiers,
sailors and marines against negroes,
in retaliation of the assaults by me-
groesS on white women in this city.
q After a conference between Secy.
Baker and local authorities, the ar
my provost guard was restored to
duty. twas announced that 9. sol
diers, sailors and marines would aid
the police lii patrolling tonight.
Just about noon the Negroes gave
the first evil idence of retaliation. Four
blacks II an auto drove$up to the
naval hospital II il Potomac park not
far from the White House and fired
four shots at the sentry. Then they
whisked dstheir chine around the
street corner and fred four more
shots at inmates on the hospital
grounds, All of them sick sorswounded
soldiers. sailors. and marines. The
machine and parties BOT away ,The'I
shots all went wild.
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