The Rock Island Argus and daily union. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1920-1923, 1920-09-21
ONE THOUSAND RESERVES
GUARD STOCKYARD ZONE;
Brave PRIEST QU|ETS MOB
Police Have the Situation
Well in Hand-Every
Precaution Taken.

Pack1ng companies, employing DOtnA
white and cOlored help, today ap-
pealed for additional guards
to prevent outbreaks, due to thei
tense feeling following last nights
race rioting on the south side.
Although no race outbreaks were
reported today, Chief of Police
Garrity made preparations to cope,
with a renewal Of the trouble after
dark tonight. The second police
battalion was mustered in for SER,
vice to patrol the black belt. No
gatherings will be permitted in the
district and club rooms and resorts
will be closely guarded. Plans for,
the policing Of the districts were,
made at a conference between Gar,
rity and south side police captains.
Chicago, Sept. 21.-One priest
with the word sanctuary" on his
lips, did more than squads Of police
last night in preventing the threat
ehed lynching Of three negroes who
took refuge in his church.
He is Father Thomas Burke. pas,
tor Of st. Gabriel's church. I
When Father Burke reached the
church q mob estimated at 5000.
was packed about the doors and
hundreds had already entered.
Forcing his way in the priest
shouted:
what is this sacrilege? Who are.
the rowdies that storm the House
of God?'
Some one explained
THAT makes no difference" the
priest cried. This place is sane
tuary. / order every person in this
building to leave Immediately and
quietly"
| The crowd broke and filed out.
The last man had left when q po-
lice riot squad arrived. Taking the
police inside Father Burke called
to the hidden negroes to come out /
| There was stir and one Of the
men stepped out from a confession |
al. A pile of cassocks in dressing
room yielded q second and the
third appeared from behind the ali
tar rail. One knelt and kissed the
priests hand. The police spirited
them out . side entrance.
Patrol by ReServes.
The first battalion OF police rel
serves, including 1000 patrolmen,
| tYo platoons Of mounted police. al
machine gun. company, seven rife
squads and the motorcycle forcei
patroled the riot zone this morning.
The dead lines established last
night, when every negro. who
sought to leave the black belt" was
halted and turned back, were lifted
today.
Quiet Prevails.
Quiet prevailed this morning in
the stockyards district on the south
side, where last night one white
imam was killed by three negroes.
followed by disturbances which
were quelled by the police with the
assistance of a priest in whose
church the negroes took refuge.
The disturbance ended when the
police hurried the negroes from the
church while Father Thomas M.
Burke, was talking to the crowd.
estimated at more than thousand.
The negroes were wanted for the
murder OF a white man in a street
corner argument.
Minor outbreaks, in which both
negroes and whites were reported
wounded, followed.
The man killed was Thomas E.
Barrett. an emplOye OF the Chicago
surface lines, who the police said,
[had been arrested several times on
charges Of assaulting colored men.
ACCORDING to the police, the trouble
started when Barrett began abus-
ing the negroes, threatening one OF
them. The negro is said to have
Lrawn a razor and almost severed
Barrett's neck with one stroke.
Barrett's friends. whose number
was increased as they ran, gave
chase.
/ Negro Quarrel.
The negroes took refuge In st.
Gabriel's Catholic church.
Chicago, Sept 21.-(United Press).
IA shooting in the heart Of ths
black belt early today caused re-
port that rioting had broken out
again. Investigation disclosed that
1T was a quarrel between two
negroes.