The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1919-08-01
TROOPS CALLED OUT TO
QUELL CHICAGO RIOTS
Small Armies Battle and Police Seem
to Be POwerless-Dead Number
Seven to Fourteen.

Chicago, July 28.-Seven to four
teen persons were killed and NOR
than two score injured, many of then
seriously, in a renewal of race riot
in the Chicago "black belt" tonight.
For more than five hours the five
mile area on the south side was {
battle ground of scattered fights be
tween whites and blacks and between
policemen and negroes, who fired from
housetops, from dark alleys and othe1
points of vantage.
The call for troops to quell the
outbreaks resulted in four regiments
of national guardsmen being modified
but at a late hour tonight they hac
not been dispatched to the disturbed
district, and Chief of Police Clarity
expressed the belief that the worst Of
the disorder had passed.
The wounded in most cases were
hurried to hospitals, after which they
were removed to homes when their
condition permitted. There was no con
certed battle by the black men, the
outbursts dotting an area of five to
seven miles.
Every police station on the south
side was flooded with reports of deaths
and injuries.
Chief of Police Clarity, at a late
hour, said it was impossible to make
an exact estimate of the casualties be-
cause of the contradictory reports.
The riots, which started yesterday
on the south side beaches were renew
ed when negro laborers began leav-
ing the big industrial plants, and by
dusk more than a score of separate
outbreaks had occurred. Whites be-
gan dragging negroes from street
cars, the negroes retaliated with
stones and knives. Street cars in the
heart of the black belt were tied up
and the windows smashed.
One morning newspaper will place
the estimated dead at IA, nine whites
and five blacks, and another Jews
paper will place the number Of dead
at 10, II blacks end two whites. The
city news bureau places the dead at
seven.
The police estimated not more than
a score had been seriously injured,
probably 200 were cut and bruised in
many clashes.
Mayor Thompson issued a procla-
nation appealing to all persons in the
affected district to maintain order.
Small Army Forms.
After threats had been made by
whites to "clean up" the stockyards
district, a small army of negroes form
ed ready to meet the challenge. An
automobile full of negroes started
over the district to estimate the num-
Der Of whites present. They were
stoned. Then'they drew revolvers and
racing at top speed, fired at whites
along the road. A white mar was
shot in the shoulder and a bullet
grazed the head Of a white woman.
The negroes were overtaken and
rescued from the mob by policemen.
In the meantime squads of mount
ed police arrived and what was ex-
pected to be the most serious outbreak
of the night was curbed. While the
black belt was seething with strife.
negro educators and churchmen sent
out appeals that the negroes go tc
their homes and keep peace. They
charged that in most outbreaks the
negroes had been heckled by whites
The attacks on street cars became
SO numerous that service was sus.
pended tonight on two lines. On 9th.
er lines policemen formed a part OIL
the crews.
Woman Starts Row.
The disorders did not start north
to the loop district, except for mi.
nor outbreaks. A negro woman struck
a white man with a bottle of spices anc
cut a deep cash in his head. He was
hurried away by his friends and the
woman was not detained.
When the first %dissension appeared