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Show CHICAGO SCENE OF FIEBCEJACE RIOTS 27 DEAD, HUNDREDS WOUNDED. POLICE USE FIREARM8 TO QUELL DISORDERS. More Troops Called Governor Makes Appeal for Law and Order. " VIolenco Spreads to Residential Sections of City, Chicago. lllotlng between whites nnd blacks continued lung after midnight mid-night Tuesday night and several casualties cas-ualties were added to tho list of 27 dead nnd hundreds' of wounded. A negro resilience wns burned by whites, hut the occupants escaped. Tho Ninth and Tenth regiments of Illinois troops from Cairo wero on tho wny to Chicago to Increase tho nvnllahlo soldiers to more than 7000, hut none had taken up patrol duty. Desplto fresh outbreaks tonight, City officials lit midnight professed themselves satisfied with what tho police po-lice were doing, and several thousand stnto troops remained In nrinorlcs. At that hour the death list totaled twenty-seven, two negroes and two whites having been killed during tho evening nnd another negro having died of wounds received Monday. The Injured In-jured list had been swelled by uncounted un-counted scores nnd, soveral of the wounded may not survive. Disturbances' Disturb-ances' wero reported from tho south side "black belt," an Italian district on the west side and from the near north side. Tho first pitched bnttlo of tho night occurred at iThlrty-flfth and South Stnto streets, ono of tho centers of trouble slnco thu first rioting Sunday. A small automobile filled with whites1, each nrmed with n pistol, and all firing fir-ing Indiscriminately nt blacks, crashed Into a patrol wagon nt tho street Intersection. In-tersection. Two of the whites wero killed In tho collision. Tho others nnd every policeman In the patrol wnkon wero burtr Immediately thero was n rush of hlncks anil policemen to tho wreck. The police could not push tho en-raged en-raged negroes away and opened fire, killing ono. negro and wounding thirty others. Thu wounded policemen nnd whites wero placed In ambulances and n crowd of whites followed them to tho Provident hospital. Outside that Institution, In-stitution, which Is maintained nnd managed by negroes, a crown or uiuckh bad gathered nnd the two races quickly quick-ly clashed. A rail for police brought n strong detail, who charged half n dozen times before the rioters wero dispersed. One negro police rergeant and n down rioters wero wounded In this clash. Ono of tho whites wounded In the fight at the nutomobllo was Frank Iloedek, an employe of the federal collector col-lector of Internal revenue. Ho was caught under tho machine and u negro shot hlhi In tho face. The negro was urrested. . A fatal affair also took place in.uio west side Italian district. A negro was Knocked from a bicycle, beaten, stabbed, wounded with sixteen revolve" revol-ve" bullets, and. after death had re-llevrl re-llevrl him, gasoline was poured on lis body mill set fire. Mllev south of tho black belt there wero flshts In Woodlawn nnd In F.n-glowood. F.n-glowood. A stray bullet from tho latter lat-ter clash wounded nft aged white woman wo-man a bluck nwuy. The north side troubles centered around West Division street. There was considerable shooting throughout tlio Lurralieo street police district, but so far as could be learned no fatalities resulted. Several negroes and numerous num-erous whites wero arrested, most of the latter giving Italian names. |