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Show SEVENTEEN HELD IN RIOT HEARINGS G R A U D JURY IN CHICAGO RETURNS RE-TURNS INDICTMENTS IN ' RACE CLASHES. Ju-'ge Crowe Tells Jurors That Executions Exe-cutions Woulid Cool Hatreds. Number of Dead Fixed at Thirty-three. Scvenl riMi negroes were charged x i 1 1 rioiing ;inl murder in Indiet-Iiiciils Indiet-Iiiciils i )! I by a special Kraml Jury Jiivesi k:a I ing rare riols, which, for five liiyt l.-isl week, held tin: scj ut li sidu of bii ago in a roign of terror. hilo oily, nullity and state authorities author-ities combined in socking causes which Jed b Ihe riming, In mi endeavor to fix responsibility, liPIKI slide troops, ildllii polieeinen mill 1000 deputies continued con-tinued lo patrol the negro quarter. I'I'i in 1 h reported the riot zono cpdet 11 1 1 1 1 every effort being iiindo to relievo (he .suffering Metroes who have been jn.nrooiied In the area and who have been unable to go lo tholr work. A iiuinber of soup kitchens were opened mid guards were furnished for negroes ne-groes who wished lo return to work. The police Monday obtained reports of i hreatening, anonymous letters retched re-tched by negro families living on the edge of die negro dislrict, In which, the negroes were warned lo move within with-in two clays or their homes would be burned and bombed and the negroes billed. The coroner lias fixed the number of dead at thirty-three and the city health commissioner lias found that ,!!(!(! people injured In the riots were treated In hospitals', that perhaps 400 or more who wero Injured In the riols never reported at hospitals. The state troops had little to do during Monday night in the riot zone, but much excitement was caused by persistent reports telephoned to headquarters head-quarters of the Second regiment that n crowd of T00 men was gathering at West 09th street. 'When a company of troops' reached the scene the crowd vanished. Several thousand negroes wlio expected ex-pected to return to work in the stoek-yarils stoek-yarils must wait until the unrest caused by the disturbances In the district dis-trict has subsided. After Announcing jtlint the colored men would return to work, superintendents of all the large packing plants decided that it would ho prudent to hold the negroes at their homes for au indefinite period. |
