Show I CHICAGO BARS RS fe NEGRO LABOR LABORIN iN o STOCKYARDS c UCA V fIRES AO 4 1 TO 10 DANGER A 5 Six Blocks o of Homes Destroyed De- De D by Flames Order O der Barring Negroes F From 9 Old Jobs in Stockyards Result lt r Aug 2 By By the f Asso- Asso so- so C dated Pres PresA As A As a r res uit fire which early carly today ae destroyed tr d six ix x blocks locks of homes of stock stockyard ork rs negro nerm labor at the th tb yards var-ds will be barred d to t- t C J a 6 i T fi Q o I Irace 4 race rioting This anI announcement Jit vas was made t tonight after a conference cp e of o Governor and d th the The he stock yat yards had d. 1 jen b tb ra center of racial d the of five days this w week Ck and with the disappearance of serious outbreaks ks yesterday it iti had hid b been e planned for tor forthe the O n negro gro w workers to return ur to to posts at nt atthe the yards ards tomorrow But the fire tire which many of oC tho the foreign workers workers work work- ers who were made homeless declared declarer was started by negroes aggravated aggravate feeling and chan changed ed the tho plans Although Fire Attorney McCabe de declared declared de- de dared man many witnesses hal hail told him negroes had been seen to set fires Inthe In Inthe inthe the neighborhood Governor Lowden was inclined to believe c that labor trouble rather th than n race feeling wo was waS responsible Except l about tho the stock yards racial feeling seemed to have subsided to to- to night At the fire Cire ruins militiamen were on dut duty as well vell as ns In the negro dis district dis district and houses of or refuge for tor the burned out families ram Illes wore were opened In schools and fire st stations 4 A surprise was vas caused led today tOda when Coroner Hoffman HoHman announced that no marks of oC violence had been found round on the body o of Eugene Williams ms a colored coloret youth who was reported stoned and knocked from Crom a raft into Inlo Lako Lake Michigan Mich Uch-I Uch I igan last Sunday precipitating the riots The Tho coroner stated that the negro had not been been struck by stones tones but had been drowned careful examination by bya a physician showed George white is being held by the police on a charge o of murder In connection with Williams' Williams death de th Only a a. few tew minor disturbances dIsturbance oc occurred occurred occurred oc- oc today In one case cac a Mexican Theodore Garcia supposed to have been I mistaken for tor a negro was stabbed tabbed I I probably fatally b by a white man Tho The militia will continue to guard the danger centers ent rs for several days das The sheriff announced today that ho he would send 1000 1100 special deputies Into the thc riot districts at nt once The police still remain on riot duty though enough men for tor traffic dut duty have been re re- re I leased re-j re |