New-York tribune., 1919-07-30
Chicago Race Riots Spread;
~ kn0iun Dead, 244 Hurt

next Monday and that body probably
will begin the inquiry mmediately
Four Assistant States Attorneys were
held on duty tonight at the Criminal
Courts Building.
Chief Garrity to-day suspended a
policeman who was charged with failure
to arrest white youth who threw a
stone whlch struck an unidentified d
negro youth, knocking him from a raft
at the Twenty Street beach Sun.
day afternoon. The negro was drowned
and that incident has generally been
conceded as the start of the riots.
The policeman said the mobs OF
thousands of fighting whites and ne
groes were such that it was imposs BILE
for him to find the whate youth.
The chief declared that if the
charges were true Policeman Callahan
the man complained Of. was the indi-
vldual responsible for the subscquen MT
riots.
1900 Negroes Laid Off
More than l 200 negroes in the employ
of the municipal government we're sen.
to their homes to-day to remain off
duty until the rioting has ceased Pa
troll wagons were utilized to convey the
negro employees to their homes for
their protection and because of the
work was stopped to-day because about
| ne-half of the employees are negroes,
and street cleaners also we're laid off
The Department of Public Works
closed nine public Fairgrounds in
neighborhoods where white and ne
groes are the patrons. The depart
ment also deputized 400 special po-
licemen to help guard public property
and it was planned to use SOC addi-
tlonal guards tomorrow if necessary.
Want Sailors Held
The Police Department received no.
tice to-day from the provost marshal
at the Great Lakes Naval Training
Station that every effort was being
made to prevent sailors joining in the
race riots and requested that all sail
ors found on the streets be taken in
custody and returned to the station.
be cancelled on the spot
Filtering of negroes into the loop
from the belt" led to a number of
fights late to-day in which several
persons were injured. One negro es-
capped a mob by running into one of
the largest stores on State Street,
taking the elevator to the eighth floor
and clambering down a fire escape in
the alley.
Several fights took place at State and
Van Buren, Streets. At least three
negroes were stabbed and beaten at
this point during the early evening.
Near this intersection a colored man,
who said he had served three years in
the Canadian army overseas and had
been both wounded and gassed was
severely wounded
Negroes Threaten Arson
The menace of fire was added to an
already serious situation when Fire
Marshal O'Connor reported that he had
been informed negroes were threaten
ing to apply the torch to homes Of
whites on the South Side. The marshal
said every available fireman was being
held in reserve to meet such al
emergency.
Several Of the big department stores
sent the police department large
number of delivery trucks for taking
to their homes negroes who had sought
refuge in the stations during the day.
Each wagonload of blacks was heavily
guarded.
Italians Attack Negro Homes
The first clash on the North Side
took place when building occupied by
two negro families was attacked by
Italians living in the neighbood. A
UOHcH oHCLS were uTeQ ana pIlCkS were
hurled through the windows. Two de-
tectives attracted by the shots held the
mob at bay until seventy-five police
men arrived armed with rifles No one
was seriously hurt in this fight.
A short time later a negro leaped
from an alley and knocked a white man
down. In moment a crowd of Ital-
ians started for the assalant, who ran
and escaped. The police arrested four
Italians. two of them armed with
sawedoif shotguns and two with re-
volvers.
Another negro was fired at repeated
~ while near his home on Larrabee
Street, also on the North Side
Italians were also participants in
rloting on the West Side. according to
the police. William Donnelson, a ne
gro, was attacked by crowd at South
Racine Avenue and Taylor Street and
beaten and shot in the head and neck
He was taken to a hospital, where it
was said he might die.
Negro Thrown Into River
On the South Side, John johnson,
eighteen years old, negro, was
stabbed, beaten and thrown into the
river at Archer Avenue and South Hal
sted Street. He was rescued by the
police and taken to hospital
An unusual Incident occurred at the
manufacturing plant of George c. Cook
& Son. Shortly before 6 o'clock in
the evening the head of the firm went
into the alley at the rear of his plant
and, according to witnesses, fired a
score of shots at random. Two Of the
bullets wounded Jessie Vinaci, eleven
years old, and U. Bartello. twenty-ninc
years old. Each was hit in the leg.
A crowd of excited whites gathered
about the factory, which employs
seventy-five negroes. When the police
arrived a rapid exchange of bullets
was taking place. Cook and his son
were taken to a police station pending
an Investigation. Two or three negroes
who fed from the building were caught
and beaten.
Fierce fighting took place in Enge-
wood. on the South Side.
1000 in Fighting
Berger Odman, twenty-one years old,
white, was shot through the abdomen
and probably fatally wounded. In
other combats several white men and
negroes we're injured. Two thousand
men, it is estimated, were fighting at
various points in this part of the city.
Race riots combined with the street
car strike to-day had a. marked effect
upon Chicago's packing industry, and
promised to extend their influences to
other lines
At the stock yards there was sharp
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