Show u HJ J LEJ lI u IE J IRE E Ad A yES d 0 O HOMELESS H HOUSES t UP p I T FLAMES stockyard 3 Section of Chicago Is Swept S by Blaze Said to Be of Incendiary ry O 0 Origin r rig i g i in n If E HICA O Aug 2 An An incendiary incendiary diary fire which the police decla a was started by negroes early today swept through the district bounded by West Forty- Forty third West sixth Forty-sixth South Lincoln Lin- Lin coIn coln street and South Hermitage avenue aven avenue ave- ave n nue e destroying homes of Polish and md Lithuanian of the stockyards stock- stock I yards and causing a property loss of m more e than Three persons ar are missing and a score were injured Rn in inthe the conflagration Three thousand men women and c children have been rendered homeless homeless home- home less by the fire and the bad feeling ib the whites and negroes great- great Je ly State troops were sent IJ to the scene of the fire to disperse We the crowds and prevent renewal of race ce riots CARRIED TORCHES I A number of witnesses have been found by the police who s say y they I saw several severa automobiles of negroes I with burning torches in the district shortly before the fire was red erea The fire broke out In three sections of the district at the same time Ime according to the police Telephone Telephone Tele Tee phone wires in the district were cut I Ii few moments after the blaze broke out DUt I number of shots were were fired at negroes in automobiles who it Iss is s said id were attempting to escape after Ke the fires were started One negro w was s said to have been wounded but w was s' s carried away by his companions I GASOLINE USED Fire JIre Chief OConnor O'Connor after a a. hasty Investigation declared the fires were vere undoubtedly u doubted of Incendiary origin and evidently started by throwing gasoline on on the outside of the buildings and applying a lighted torch or matches I Ire Attorney Harry Donnelly gave the police the names of twelve persons pers persons per per- sons s sons ns who declare they saw negroes i the district bearing burning torches and cutting telephone wires CONTROL RIOTERS The situation in other sections of th tb he danger zone of the south side w was was s reported satisfactory to the authorities authorities au- au where there were also a an n number lumber of disturbances With ith the resumption of pf service on the he elevated railroads Adjutant General Gen- Gen eral emI Dickson notified regimental commanders commanders com com- manders to place guards at the various various vari- vari ous ius ous stations and those of the curious o rt sought entrance to the belt bet over ver the elevated found a soldier with witha a a bayoneted n gun to turn them back if o proof of business thereabouts was forthcoming START TART INVESTIGATION With quiet restored in the Black BlackB B Belt jit It the legal machinery of the county began active operations in investigating the riot More than a hundred undred of the prisoners held at the poU police olice e stations In the riot zone have thus ius far been interrogated and from hese these confessions were said to have I I Ib b been n procured which will lead to further fur fur- Ether Ith ther X arrests on more serious charges shah han hah those on which the many pr prisoners prisoners pris pris- s- s are now held The The officials declared conspiracies among negroes to snipe policemen and whites have been revealed and also similar combinations among j whites to burn bum the th homes hom of 0 ngo negroes I |