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Show CHICAGO SCENE OF FIERCE RACE RIOTS ' . 27. DEAD, HUNDREDS WOUNDED. POLICE USE FIREARMS TO ! QUELL. DISORDERS. , - . . . .. :. More Troopt Called Governor Makes Appeal for Law and Order. ' Violence Spread to Residential ; " Sections of City. ; Chicago. Rioting , between - whites and blacks continued long after midnight mid-night Tuesday night and several casualties cas-ualties were added to the list of 27 deud and hundreds of wounded. A negro residence was burned by whites, . but the occupants escaped. The Ninth and Tenth regiments of Illinois troops from Cairo were on the way to Chicago to increase the available soldiers to more than 7000, but none had taken up patrol duty. Despite fresh outbreaks tonight, city officials at midnight professed themselves satisfied with what the police po-lice were doing, mrt several thousand state troops remained in armories, At that hour the death list totaled twenty-seven, two negroes and two whites having been killed during the evening und another ne?o having died of wounds received Monday. ' . The Injured In-jured list had been swelled by On-counted On-counted scores and several of the woundedmay not survive. Disturbances Disturb-ances were reported from the south side "black belt," an Italian district on the west side and from the near north side. The first pitched battle of the night occurred at Thirty-fifth and . South State streets, one of the centers of trouble since the first rioting Sunday A small automobile filled with whites; each armed with a pistol, and all firing fir-ing Indiscriminately at blacks, crashed Into a patrol wagon at the street intersection. in-tersection. , T . Two of the whites were, killed in the collision. The others and every policeman in the patrol wakon were hurt.'-" - ' ' . Immediately there was a rush of blacks and policemen to the wreck. The police could not push the enraged en-raged negroes away and opened fire, killing one negro and wounding thirty others. The wounded policemen and whites were placed in ambulances and a crowd of whites followed them to the Provident hospital. Outside that institution, in-stitution, which Is maintained and-managed and-managed by negroes, a crowd of blacks hud gathered and the two races quickly quick-ly cfashed. A call for police brought a strong detail, who charged hulf a dozen times before the rioters were dispersed. One hegro police sergeant and a dozen rioters were wounded in this clash. One of the whites wounded In the fight at the automobile was Frank Iloedek, an employe of the federal collector col-lector of internal revenue. He was caught under the machine and a negro shot him in the face. The negro was arrested. A fatal affair also took place In the west side Italian district. A negro was Knocked from a bicycle, beaten, stabbed, wounded with sixteen revolver revol-ver bullets, and, after death had relieved re-lieved him, gasoline was poured on his body and set fire. Miles south of the black belt there were fights in Woodlawn and In En-giewood. En-giewood. A stray bullet from the latter lat-ter clash wounded on aged white woman wo-man a block away. The north side troubles centered around West Division street. There was considerable shooting throughout the Lnrrabee street police district, but so far as could be learned no fatalities resulted. ' Several negroes and numerous num-erous whites were arrested, most of the latter giving Italian names. |
