The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-08-01
TWO MEN, ONE A NEGRO, ONE A
WHITE, ARE DROWNED, POS.
sieLY so INJURED.
few OTHERS NAY KISS DUST
Many Scrimmaees-Guns, Clubs and
Rocks used-Aii Available Police
in City Are Rushed to District
Of Wild Turmoil.

broke out Sunday afternoon
and before midnight two men were
dead. according to police reports, both
two negroes probably fatally
and more than a score, pos
sibly SO persons, both blacks and
whites, wounded or injured by bull
let's, stones, clubs and other missiles
Fifty or more arrests were made and
every available policeman was rushed
into the black belt.
The casualty list reported by the
police included a negro youth, who
was drowned in Lake Michigan, and
a white boy who was drowned. The
negro's body was recovered.
Stones Strike eathers.
A white youth was arrested in con-
nection with the drowning of the ne.
gro. The latter was said to have been
struck with a stone and fell from a
raft floating off the Twenty-ninth
street bathing beach where the first
serious trouble started. Stones were
thrown at bathers on both sides Of
the color line, as whites and blacks
are segregated at the beach.
Twenty-ninth street was soon a
seething. fighting mass of humanity
of both colors. Revolvers, rifles, clubs,
stones and bricks were used. Riot
call after riot call was received by
the police and patrol wagons loaded
with bluecoats rushed to the district.
Negroes at home on State street, in
the heart OF the black belt, beat
whites promiscuously through the day
and night.
Drag Blacks From Street Cars.
Whites went about dragging ne
groes from street cars and beating
them.
The trouble moved from one part
Of the negro district to another. Hun
dreds of policemen were rushed to
the troubled neighborhoods and sue
ceeded in keeping the disorders scat
tered.
Although ill-feeling between whites
and blacks on the South Side has ex-
tended over period Of months, en-
phasized by bomb explosions, some
shooting and numerous fights. Sun
days riots seem to have had their
start in petty quarreling at the beach.
Soon after the fighting started a ne.
gro fled, pursued by a number of
whites.
Negro Begins Shooting.
A policeman Joined the pursuit. The
negro took shelter behind building
and began shooting at the policeman,
who returned the fire. The negro then
surrendered.
During the fight one negro was
probably fatally wounded.
The fighting soon had Twenty
ninth street packed with whites and
blacks, the latter predominating. More
fighting occurred and a few more
shots were fired as some Of the ne
groes fled and as patrol wagon after
patrol wagon appeared on the scene
with their loads of bluecoats.
Grows Worse.
Chicago.-FOur more victims in the
race riots in the negro quarter of Chi
cago were found Monday. making the
number of known dead 10. Estimates
of persons who passed through the
streets and alleys where fighting did
not cease until we'll after midnight
placed the total dead as high as Is
and the injured at 500, but the police
Gould find M oufhori<v for fhoco fio
| ures.
Major Fred Haynes of the First Hi
nois infantry, was found with bro
ken back in the center of the riot area
| Tuesday morning. He was not on duty
| but a corporal and a sergeant, who
were members of the Illinois reserves
were wounded during clash with ne
groes. Reports from hospitals indi
Gated dozen wounded would die.
Seven Killed.
| Chicago.-Seven persons were killed
and more than two score wounded
many of them seriously. in a reneda
of race riots in the Chicago "blacl
belt" Monday night.
For more than five hours the five
mile area on the south side was a bat
tleground of scattered fights between
whites and blacks and between police
men and negroes who fired from tn,
housetops. from dark alleys and othel
points of vantage.
Mayor Thompson sent an appeal t.
Governor Lowden to mobilize a regi
ment of national guardsmen for imme
date service in the ''black belt" wher'
sporadic rioting has been in progress,
since last night.
The call for troops to quell the out
breaks resulted in four regiments O
national guardsmen being modified
but at late hour Monday night the.
had not been dispatched to the dis
turbed district and Chief of Polio,
Clarity expressed the belief that tn,