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Show Trouble Starts at Bathing Bath-ing Beach and Spreads to Other Sections of Metropolis' Black Belt. Police Unable to Estimate Esti-mate Number of Casualties; Cas-ualties; Rumors Spread Throughout the City. CHICAGO, July 27. One maji was shot and killed and another seriously se-riously wounded late tonight in a strike riot on the southwest side of the city. The shooting, according to the police, was the result of trouble between strikers at the Crane company's plant and others, supposedly nonstrikers. (Chicago Tribune Special Service.) CHICAGO, July 27. Two whites and a colored man are reported to be dead and approximately fifty are said to have been injured, a number probably fatally, when race rioting broke out today anioiiR white and negro bathers alonp South Side beaches, front Twenty-ninth street south to Thirty-fifth street. The confusion was so prreat in the district dis-trict that the police were unable to place an estimate either on tho dead or wounded. wound-ed. Acting: Chief of Police Alcock received re-ceived a report that three negroes and two whites had been killed. Another rumor ru-mor was to the effect that several hundred hun-dred were drowned in the lake during the rioting. Blacks and whiles are swarming through the South Side black belt, and rioting has spread throughout much of the district. Police reserves and detectives detec-tives from all stations in tho city have been rushed to the scene. Special calls to the stations and hospitals for ambulances ambu-lances also huve been sent by Chief Alcock. Al-cock. TOLICEMAN ATTACKED BY CROWD OF NEGROES. James O'Brien, a policeman attached to the Cottage Grove station, was attacked by a mob of negroes at Twenty -ninth and State streets. Several shots were fired at him, and ho was wounded In tho arm. He pulled his revolver on the surging surg-ing mass, and fired several times Into the crowd. The crowd Hcattercd, leaving leav-ing three blacks moaning on tho pavement. pave-ment. One died before he could be taken to a hospital. The o I hern, who were not identifier, were rushed to the hospital, but not until after the negroes had made valiant attempts, to recover the wounded. A white man is said to have been drowned in the lake off Thirty-first street, after he had been struck in the head by a rock tossed by a negro. His body has not been recovered. Several whiten, who are said to have participated in the rioting, told policemen that they had seen two black bathers drowned. NEGROES SET FIRE TO BUSINESS HOUSE. A report reached the Cottage (Jroc slution that iKgro'.s had set fire to a drug store at Thli ly-fifth street and Cottage Cot-tage (irove avermi-s. More than fifty whlf s, it was said, had nought refuge rt.-r.-. A '!!; hrm-nt from tt South Side f Ir'.house was stoit to the scene. Charles I., former (while), "2S3!I Cot tage lirove avenue, was shot In the head and may die lie was sitting in the window of his ho,,,- watching the rioting was p.ke, off hy a negro sniper lie fell Lark in to the front room, where ;!a w:,s mrn uj Racial feeling, which has beo on par with the weather during t e la, wie r:v-hi,;-"r",17 B,,ori,'y iif,cr s ,' ' ,, lathers attempted to drlvn ; :'- at the foot of a w e" v ,A r,Mk "'"-led ' he- - y i' '-"'"red man on tM tee for -,1 fl t"C '" feelinB- TIC" ttee-ior-all fight ensued. WILD SCENES ARE ENACTED ON BEACH. Stones and ror;s WPre lhro-n ,ui whites and black Hashed In a-rn com-Mis com-Mis I-.v-n white and colored ""? "to the mixup. The screams 1"', " of the rioters ,..ere heard as f" H Thirty-flfth street and soon " spectators, white and black s""""1'1 from all sides. , , Several took their f isl v jhor lake and battled, whne ,;i?c!L-5l-X (C ittinued on Pane clm " THREE DEI ; OTHERS WOUNDED (Continued From Page One.) threw stones. It was during this mlxup that several are reported to have been drowned. 1 Blacks and whites then appeared in! squads from all sides, heavily armed. ! More than fifty shots were fired before I the Cottage Grove station rushed its first ; squad of policemen. They were unable to quell the rioting, and three extra calls were sent in. Before reinforcements arrived ar-rived more than 200 shots were fired, but it was impossible to ascertain the number num-ber wounded. The fighters were driven from the beach and carried their quarrels into Cottage Grove avenue. Here, more rioting broke out and Chief of Polick Alcock was notified. noti-fied. He ordered every reserve policeman and detective to the scene. Later he took command. Chief of Police Alcock has placed the "black belt'" and districts north and south for several blocks under police guard. His orders are "shoot to kill." Three hundred hun-dred policemen have received orders to guard all streets and alleys. Associated Press Report. CHICAGO, July 27. (By the Associated Press.) Serious rioting of whites and blacks in the negro district of Chicago broke out this afternoon, and before midnight mid-night two men were dead, according to police reports, both drowned ; two negroes ne-groes probably fatally wounded and more than p score, possibly tifty persons, both blacks" and whites, wounded or injured bv bullets, stones, clubs and other missiles. mis-siles. Fifty or more arrests were made, , and every available policeman was rushed ! into the" black belt. j The casualty list, reported by the po-I po-I lice, included a negro youth, who was 1 drowned in Pake Michigan, and a white boy. also drowned. The negro's body was recovered. A white vouth was arrested in connection connec-tion with "the drowning of the negro, i The latter was said to have been struck ! with a stone and fell from a raft float-j float-j ing off the Twenty-ninth street bathing I beach, where the first serious trouble started. Stories were thrown at bathers on both sides of the color line, as whites and blacks are segregated at the beach." Twenty-ninth street soon was a seething, seeth-ing, fighting mass of humanity of both colors. Revolvers, rifles, clubs, stones and br'cks 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 throughout the day and night. Whites went about dragging negroes from street cars ahd beating them. The trouble moved from one part of the negro district to a not her. Hundreds of policemen were rushed to the troubled neighborhoods and succeeded in keeping the disorders scattered. Troops Are Withdrawn. WASHINGTON. July 27. All of the 2000 regular troops brought here to preserve pre-serve order when last week's race rioting riot-ing and street disorders got beyond control con-trol of the police had been withdrawn tonight, to-night, but the national capital was still depending on the army, which was represented repre-sented by a provost guard. The war department recreated the provost pro-vost guard which had been abolished several sev-eral weeks ago, and tonight the troopers, j with red bands on their sleeves, armed with riot-sticks and six-shooters. In opened holsters, were patrolling the principal prin-cipal parts of the capita! in pairs. Although the race rioting and the attacks at-tacks bv negroes on whi te women have subsided, street holdups have continued. Negro Minister Protests. CHATTANOOGA. Tenn., July 27. Declaration Dec-laration that before I he negroes of the country again will submit to "many of the injustices which we have suffered, the white men will have to kill more of them than the combined number of soldiers sol-diers that were slain in the great, world war." is made in a letter written to President Presi-dent Wilson by the Rev. J. G. Robinson, presiding elder of the African Methodist Kpiseopal church at. Chattanooga. The let ter appeals for the president's support in behalf of legislation to prevent lynchings and to force southern states to lace negroes on juries. N 10 W YORK, July 27. Nearly 2000 negroes ne-groes shouted their approval here today when various speakers addressing a meet ing held under the auspices of the lvma! Rights league urged the adoption of radicalism among negroes as a means of obtaining their "rights." One speaker suggested "follow jmr the. eoriserval ive work done by blacks in Washington." while others advised "using ail methods. ceii force," and "making radicalism the essence of our propaganda" propa-ganda" and "stopping the white man from treading on our toes." |
