Show t f r r 51 TI LIST I 1000 WOUNDED D n I 1 1 HAlll HALT HAll l A AS ASI TR P I APPA Soldiers Called Out as Night Approaches and Whites and Blacks Mass for New Attacks f July 31 The 31 The main mam negro quarters of Chicago today ay were ere d i. i by Y diers o accoutered I 4 as S for or Avar ware lr i after four nights of race rioting noting that th t caus caused d thirty deaths seventeen se enteen negroes and thirteen whites and the then n nun ury ury of ot nearly 1000 persons of w om loin were severely hurt and a dozen of ot- ot whom may die of wounds No Nod d were reported during the then n gilt but many injuries ries and fires were STere recorded Governor o Frank O O. den Lowden order ordered d the Uie troops out last night on request I ot Mayor Thompson after darkness h had brought renewed rioting and the city's policemen found round themselves exhausted FIRE ON SOLDIERS kept up after the troops reached their stations shortly before midnight and one squad of ot soldiers h had d to fight a crowd of or negroes to reach their station at Forty first street t tand l and Wabash avenue while r oth soldiers soldiers soldiers sol- sol diers were fired on from ambush on the the way to fluty No soldier was killed I or or wounded and after the troopers had lad taken their places disorders died down d wn within the region patrolled Mayor Thompsons Thompson's decision to re request request re- re I qu quest st the of or state troops was reached after his secretary and General General General Gen Gen- eral Dickson had gone through the z zone zone ii where whites and blacks had cl clashed shed so many times since Sunday and he had received reports from private private private vate invest gators who told him that m many ny small athletic clubs were arranging arranging arranging I ing to make a concerted attack on negroes C CALLS OUT TROOPS General Dickson reported that the thee I e situation was was ominous and Chief of Police Garrity presented a tabulation I of two policemen slain and thirty-one thirty I in injured The Tha fire chief told the mayor I that firemen had answered forty fire al alarms to quench blazes in negro homes With this information at ath h hand i d. d the mayor hastily telephoned governor G vernor Lowden and General Dickson Dickson Dickson Dick- Dick son to order the tho soldiers on duty Within a minute orders were flashing flashing flash flash- ing to the various armories where the soldiers had been quartered for two days flays ready for duty Army trucks began begin be- be gin gan to- to pull to-pull pull up to the more distant barracks barra barracks bar bar- ra racks ks almost immediately and the soldiers sold soldiers sol sol- d diers diers rS sprang aboard Soldiers housed nt hearer harer to the scene of or action formed companies and marched to their Stations gRIVE DRIVE OUT HOODLUMS I L' L S the ph phalanxes swung with steady teadY stride into the riot area rifles on their 1 shoulders and cartridges on their hips I jUie tie roughs who had been treading the pavement ement looking for tor fights rights disappeared Pred Some ome of the gangs sped to o territory hitherto uninfected by terrorism terror terror- terror terror- ism and resumed their unlawful oc occupation oc- oc p but most of the marauders began to fall retired for for the night The law abiding negroes who had hadnot hadnot hadnot not participated In the rioting and had band h d been herded within doors for three tr e days for fear of or attacks rushed I It o outdoors t as the tramp of the military I echoed down the streets of the black belt bel but they had been too much over- over I Sj 1 by fear tear apparently to offer any greeting merely watching with lightened countenances countenances' the synchrony te ted march of or the men in khaki QUIET RESTORED B Its s each regiment reached Its headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters the tile men were split Into 1 pa- pa tr ls of or eight who were sent out unde under un- un de der p noncommissioned officers to see 1 that order was preserved Even the tho truculent negroes for the most part r refrained from fighting the soldiers and by 2 o'clock In t the c morning all H 2 Continued on page 2 r. r I RIOTS HALT Continued from page 1 was quiet In the troop guarded terri terri- tory Before the troops had all been as assigned assigned assigned as- as signed there were some minor clashes with roughs however The first melee occurred In front of ot the shop base for forthe forthe forthe the motor transport corps at Fifty Fifty- first and Wabash avenue Nine negroes negroes negroes ne ne- groes armed with revolvers drove back and forth In front of ot the base firing promiscuously but hitting no one NEGROES CAPTURED I A squad of soldiers soo up and gave chase capturing the negroes after firing tiring several shots at them Ten revolvers and several razors were taken taken taken tak tak- en from the blacks who were then turned over to the police I Major Macey in command of six companies of ot the First reserves and anda and anda a platoon of ot his men were fired on onby onby onby by snipers at Fifty eighth street and andI Racine avenue None of ot the soldiers was hit and when they scattered and I sought their assailants the latter disappeared dis dis- appeared While the soldiers were taking their I stations a crowd of ot whites surrounded the home of ot John Coles a negro policeman po- po policeman policeman po po- and rained bullets on him and his wife The house was severely I damaged before policemen came to the rescue I SERIOUS RIOT The most serious riot of ot the night and State took tool place at third Fifty streets where policemen fought two hours a crowd of ot negroes firing r nearly a thousand shots before the rioters were subdued and forty-five forty of ot them arrested It was only after atter the patrolmen had chopped their way Into some of the buildings and seized a dozen snipers with their rifles and cartridges that the fighting ceased I II I I Although many heads were cracked the barricaded I as the police pollee charged negroes all the rifle fire resulted in the Injury of ot only one person Patrolman Emil Johnson driver of at a patrol wagon He lie was shot as the policemen I dashed up to the scene and thereafter the bluecoats kept in the shelter of I their vehicles while approaching the therow therow therow row of ot houses that covered the blacks I The fighting lasted two hours and I then axes and sledge hammers were brought into play to gain entrance to I Ithe the negro homes NO MARTIAL LAW Governor Frank O. O Lowden In a aI statement Issued this morning called attention to the fact that the city was I Inot I not under martial law and that no nol l such buch action is contemplated unless conditions con con- con j grow materially worse He explained the state troops are I working in connection with the police pollee and that rioters arrested will be prosecuted prosecuted prosecuted prose prose- In the municipal and state courts and not by military authorities FEARED THE TORCH Mayor Thompson In a statement Is Issued Issued issued Is- Is sued said one reason for his appealing to Governor Lowden for tor the use of state troops was that he had Information information tion of ot a well defined plot to burn down downa a a. large section of the black belt The fact that the whites had resorted to the torch he said was clearly shown by fifty incendiary fires in twenty four hours in the negro district The calling calling calling call call- ing out of ot the troops and the rain he heI said frustrated the plans of ot the torchbearers torch- torch torchbearers I bearers and perhaps prevented a great conflagration SEND FOOD TO NEGROES When Governor Lowden learned that thousands of ot negroes who have vIrtually virtually virtually vir vIr- vir- vir been held prisoners in their homes since Sunday because of the race riots were in urgent need of ot food he gave orders facilitating the delivery of supplies to the black belt As a re result result result re- re sult many wagon loads of food were sent to the district on the south side where relief was seriously needed TWO FOUND WOUNDED Oscar Nelson 32 years old white was found In a west side street with two serious stab wounds in his chest The police believe he was the victim of a race riot attack Later the police found Isaiah DozIer Dozler a negro unconscious in a street near I the stockyards where he had been attacked at attacked attacked at- at tacked by white men lIe He may die of ot his injuries No arrests were made MINOR INCIDENTS A squad of ot the Eleventh regiment rescued four negroes at West Forty- Forty third and South Halstead streets who were on their way to work In the stockyards stockyards stockyards stock stock- yards when they were chased by a a. crowd of ot white men Several of ot the white men were arrested Soldiers captured a negro sniper on the roof of ot a building In South State near West Forty-fifth Forty street Three negro of ot stockyards firms were severely beaten by white men while on n their way to work but their assailants s. escaped Funerals were held today for tor twenty I. I victims of ot the race riots |