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Show ! CHICAGO FIRES LEAVE 3,000 HOMELESS I TROOPS UNABLE TO CONTROL FRENZIED CR0WD8J FIRES CHICAGO, Aug. 2. Scores of families were made homeless early today by half a dozen fires which broke out in j I a six block area west of the stockyards and inhabited chiefly by foreigners. Squads of police sent to the fires pronounced by firemen as of incendiary origin, found it impossble to con- f trol the crowds and several companies of militia were ordered to the quarter, in which fram structures predominate. The presence of the militia led to rumors of renewal of the recent race disturbances and of incendiarism growing out : : I of that trouble. Police officials, however, said that these were probably baseless. j One woman reported the loss of three children but it was thought they had escaped from the house and been lost in the excited crowds that flocked to the scene. Firemen carried a i number of small children from the rapidly burning frame j I houses but there was no known loss of life. According to Fire Marshal O'Connor, nearly 1 -00 homes IHI were destroyed and 3,000 persons were made homeless by the fire. I QUIET IN "BLACK BELT" CHICAGO. Aug. 2 Calm pervaded the "black belt" district of the south: , side today, and but for the presence I of soldiers and policemen, a visitor ! would scarcely have known that for four days and nights the district .seethed with feeling of race hatred 'that resulted in thirty-five deaths and ,more than 300 known injured. One fist fight between a white man and a negro was the only report of trouble in the sector for the twelve ! hours preceding this morning. With the resumption of service on the elevated railroads Adjutant-General Dickson notified regimental commanders com-manders to place guards at the various var-ious stations and those of the curious who sought entrance to Ihe 'belt" over the elevated found a soldier with a ba onetted gun to turn them back if I no proof of business tbereabouts was forthcoming. With quiet restored in the "black i belt" the legal machinery of the county coun-ty began active operation in investigating investi-gating the riot "More than a hundred of the prisoners held at the police sla-tlons sla-tlons in the riot zone lv.ve thus far been interrogated, and Trom these con-I con-I fessions were said to have been pro-' pro-' curd which will lead to further arrests ar-rests on more serious charges than those on which the many prisoners are !now held. The officials declared conspiracies con-spiracies among negroes to "snipe" policemen and whites have been rc-! rc-! vealed and also similar combination0 I among whites to burn the homes of negroes. Resume Car Service CHICAGO, Aug. 2 Street car service serv-ice was resumed today after a four dav strike of surface and elevated can men that Is estimated to have cost the workers 330 "OO in wages lost. Re- i sumption of traffic soon followed announcement an-nouncement of rescinding of the strike order and acceptance of a wage schedule sche-dule of 65 cents an hour for surface and 67 cents for eloated men. Hearings were begun today by the i state public utilities commission to j i determine what raise m fares will be I necessary to pay the 17 cents an hour ; increase in wages given to the men. It is said a 7 cent fare on surface lines and an eight cent faie on elevated roads will be granted by the commis- I sion. In addition a one cent charge I for transfers may be assessed. Started by Negroes An incendiary fire which the police declare was started by negroes early t today swept through the district bounded by West 13rd. West 46th. South Lincoln street, and South Her- mitage avenue, destroying 100 homes I Of Polish and Lithuanian employes of Ithe stockyards and causing a property loss of more than 1200,000. Three j persons are missing and a score were iniured in the cnnelagration. Three thousand men, women and children have been rendered homeless by the fire and the bad feeling be tween the whites and negroes greatly-aggravated. greatly-aggravated. State troops were sent to the scene of the fire to disperse the crowds and prevent a renewal of race riots A number of witnesses have been found by the police who say they saw several automobiles of negroes with burning torches in the district shortly before the fire was discovered. The fire broke out in three sections of the district at Ihe same Ume, according to the police. Telephone wires in the n district were cut a few moments after the blaze broke out. A number of shots were fired at negroes in auto mobiles who, it is said, were attempi I ing to escape after the fires were I H started. ne negro was said to have El been wounded but was carried away by his companions. Fire Chief O'Connor fler a hasty-Investigation hasty-Investigation declared that the fires were undoubtedly of iocendiary origin and evidently started by throwing gasoline gas-oline on the outside of building and applying a lighted torch or matches. Fire Attorney Harry Donnelly gave , I the police the nam' ol twelve per- I sons ho declare they saw negroes in the district bearing burning torches and cutting telephone wires. The situation in other sections of th I danger zone of the south side was reported re-ported satisfactory to the authorities r although there were a number of minor mi-nor disturbahces. |