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attacked a Negro and set fire to volunteer! told th police that, fearing- violence, he had sent the twenty-five colored em WHERE RACES RIOTED YESTERDAY RIOT REFUGEES FLEE TO POLICE FEARFUL OF MOB it Negro Business Men Act to Curtail Lawlessness his clothing. The black belt still continued the center of the conflict but the type of warfare had changed. The advent of the 3, COO police and the establishing of the zone system bad done away, for the most part, with the mob fights. TO ACT TODAY AS TRAFFIC SQUAD ployes of the hotel home at 5 o'clock, under police protection. He 6aid that an attack on the hotel had been planned for 5 o'clock yesterday morning, but that at that hour the attack was frustrated by the presence of half a dozen policemen.

At that time the leaders shouted: "We'll get you later." The mob congregated again In Clark street, near the city hall, and moved south to Madison, where an attempt was made to enter the Morrison hotel by the servants' entrance. Foiiee and MUNICIPAL business mn tried their hand yesterday at quelling black belt PIELR. Colored Citizens Jam Stations; Go Home in Closed Vans. 1 co Rj' I Hex ri race riots and at the end of the day declared that their labors had done more to stop street fighting and down colored citizens than a regiment of roldiers. There were mob but they v-ere outside the black belt Civilians with house detectives again dispersed the crowd, which soon formed again.

Marching south in Clark street, it Two colored business men. C-eoree Holt, a salonnV proper. There were instances of thousands of white men, some of stopped at al! restaurants, but found State street, and Eusrene F. Manns. "Uncl Tom's Cabin a modern setting that was the central police station yesterday.

Like fugitive slaves of the ante-bellum south, citizens huddled in the squad room and awaited their turn to be taken home thn undoubtedly drunk, attack Have Authority of South Wabash aenue. headed committees which formulated and printed 21'VOOO hand bu; sdviine- th no colored men. Chase Shooting The police received a report that man had been shot at Adams and Clark ing Negro homes, pulling the men i Nesrroes to stay off the street, obev cut and beating them, and many lootings of stores. There were few the police orders, and above all to make streets, but found all quiet there. Another report sent detectives and police no attacks on white persons.

men hurrying to 316 South State street. Mr. Holt's hand bill, of which 65,000 ICegro mobs, and they were not in ARMORY were printed and distHhnteii ves-ter- where, it was sai 1. a NVgro had been killed by whites. There the police found E3 big numbers as the whites.

day, according to Mr. Holt, is as fol Sam Wilson, a Negro, who said he lows: When the nieht came on the rwas "just in from the south." lie had taken refuge from a crowd in the Rlalto Street lights were shot out; there Kvere no lieits in the Nesro wTh a IS mix theater. Ha was taken to the central station. under escort. All day long they streamed into the station.

Some came of their own ac- cord. Others, too timid to venture cut by themselves, telephoned for a btuecoat 1 escort. A few asked their employers to call the police. Belle Lawton of 4431 South State street, a chambermaid at the Hotel Sherman, was sitting apprehensively on a bench between two colored men yesterday afternoon. "Ah've been alahmed all day.

she quavered, "an fin'ly Ah just Phoned Main 13 an told "em to come an' get me." lie Isn't Bullet-Proof. Not far away stood a middle, aged colored man whose costume Wcls topped with an old black derby. Jiouses. White men passing these were printed and distributed. Mr.

Manns -was in conference with Chief of Police GarrUy yesterday and with Mayor Thompson on Monday. They both urged the issuance rt post ers and handbills to keep rioting down and the res-ult was the formation of the two committees, headed by Mr. Manns and Mr. Holt. "What the black belt needs," said Mr.

Manns, "is a committee of business men. Our people will listen to us when they will not listen to politicians. If the situation were in our hand3 we would need no police. Joint Committee Urged. "The trouble with the Chicago colored population is that preachers, welfare workers, politicians, and lawyer have kept the colored man in Ignorance In order to make money and position out of him.

"He is just waking up to this fact and is refusing longer to be bound by the fetters of ignorance." Assistant Corporation Counsel Edward II. Wright, colored, visited both Chief Garrity and Mayor Thompson yesterday with reports on black belt conditions. Mrs. Ida Wells- Barnett, a leader among the colored women, yesterday advocated a committee of the best men and women of both the white and black races to devise ways and means for the protection of the Negro and the discouragement of race prejudice. Scores of Negro boys went from house to house on the south side last night passing out handbills published by the Chicago Defender, a Negro daily, and bearing an appeal to colored persons to remain off the streets and to abstain from all lawlessness.

The handbills were headed Extra and w-ere signed by Robert S. Abbott. through the darkened streets Four hundred volunteer Chlcsr-business men were rtc, day to take over the duties of t'he hoe department traffic squad so tha the 250, traffic police en may 0 trol work in the "blnck belt." Every loop s-treet intersection tcfi bo manned toclay by one of the tecrs. according- to the p'an. He jna dressed in the uniform of a soi dier or a sailor.

He may wear tr uniform of the health department inspector or he may be in civies." But in any case he will have a whistle artf a star and the same authority as a member of the traffic division. ItciJ Crganhes Squad. STANTON AVENUE RIOTS. ATTENTIONS' All Law Citizens The R.oting Is Over. Helpthe To-lioe Keep the Situation in Hand by Not Congregating on the Streets.

Car Lines or Corners, Holding Conversation. Avoid all Inf.ammatory Re- marks and Obey all Police Orders. COMMITTEE OF COLORED CITIZENS. George W. Holt, 3504 South State St.

Chairman. Mr. Mann's dodger was of a more personal nature. It reads as follows: No, suh, Ah'ra not takm no chances," he said. If Ah was bullet proof, like one of them there dusouts, The in Public nw traffic squad was organ, the office of Commissioner cf Service "William TT.

Mt'd be diff'rent. Somethin tells me listen to Me, Fellows! You AH Know Eugene F. Manns and What he has Done for you and your Families. Now, Fellows, let's all Go Home and Quit Standing around the Corners. I am in Consultation behind Closed Doors wfth the Chief of Police v-erc picked off, one, by one.

Ten Policemen Shot. The r.ight was unusual for th rum-r-er of policemen womull There were tm cf them Sergt. George Chntt of "Warren avenue, ihot while tryinp to ciucll a ri-t at Fifty first and State streets; Policemen Kalph Cheney, SOOT I-ogan boulevard; Jerry Murray, 77CD Kxchanere) avenue, and Floyd Wilcox, hot at Thirty-second and State streets; Detective Sergeant Thomas Middleton, thot in a riot at the Provident hospital; Policeman Charles Sanchez, shot through both legs by a sniper; Police-inan Daniel Daly of the stockyards tntion, shot in the thigh; Policeman "William Sullivan, shot in the side; Policeman Fred Peeling, Englewood, fhot in tho shoulder; Policeman John Connolly, Knglewood, slightly wounded. The last four were in a taxieab with Policeman John Lambert. They had been relieved and were going home.

It was 11:30. As the taxi sped down Ah better stick right here with the pcrlice." A policeman entered the room with a couple of colored men marching -before him. Sit down and we'll take you home Motorcycle policemen, stopping all automobi-'es in the south side district and searching them for arms, brought in an assortment of weapons to the Stanton avenue and the Thirty-fifth street stations. W. S.

O'Neill of Stanton avenue station arrested eix men. recently discharged from the "old Sth regiment, one of them decorated for bravely serving his country overseas. They had seven revolvers, loaded, in the car, and the car had been stolen. It was reported they had slightly wounded a policeman and a fireman, but this was not confirmed. Patrick Martin, white.

S538 South Halsted street, riding in a truck he says he owns, was arrested, charged with firing at Negroes. Colored Veterans Arrested. Four colored detective sergeants persuaded eleven of their race, who were in army uniforms, two of them wearing the croix de guerre, to visit the Stanton avenue station, saying the chief wanted to see them. They were arrested. Each had an army style revolver, loaded.

They said they were a sort of military guard and had no intention of rioting. Another group of discharged, Negro just as soon as we can get a wagon. and am Demanding that the Persons who Molested you Shall be Punished. After Everything is Settled and Everything has Returned to Normal, You can Hold me Responsible. Yours for Good Luck, Eugene F.

Manns. According to Mr. Manns. 145,000 of i 1 gfffiij- I sSrJ :o.5t- Jl Indiana Qi'Aniio ii-Oor Vi 1 r.CO I tn day afternoon. Only about 2A0 tver, present at that time, but mer streamevl in durinpr the afternoon anl evening and Mr.

Keid said last night that he wnkl have more than enough men to take over the traffic duties ar.a to release each of the volunteers after four hours' work. The new traffic directors are com-posed of 150 members of the police reserve; 100 soldiers, sailors, and city employes, and about 150 members of th State Society for the Apprehension of Horse and Automobile Thieves, who volunteered at the request of their president, James Howe. Lieut. Martin in Charge, Si Mayer, secretary of the police 4 partment, was on the Job with -400 po-lice reserve stars and as many whistles. Chief of Police Garrity assigned Lieut.

John Martin of the traffic division to drill and assign the volunteer to their new posts. Commissioner Reid was busy amonp his friends last night organizing a fleet of automobiles to the police substitutes from their homes to the headquarters of the traffic squad. MASSMEETING CALLED OFF ON assistant superintendent of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific railroad yards at West Forty-seventh street, was seriously beaten when he was set upon by a gang of fifteen Negroes in the yards near Forty-eighth street. Twice Hurled Into River. "Deacon" Johnson, colored, 2214 South Dearborn street, was seized on the Halsted street bridge by a gang wVMtoa And.

after a severe beating. t-soidiers, twelve in number, armed efforts he had made to quell disturbances. Mayor Thompson ordered the police to assure Negro workers at the stockyards protection on their way to and from work. He ordered First Deputy Alcock to have Thirty-fifth and Forty-seventh streets opened up and strongly patrolled by policemen. Evanston Crowds Quiet.

Although about twice as many Negroes were seen on Evanston streets as usual, no disturbances of any kind have taken place. Chief of Police Leg-gett believed no trouble would develop, and took no steps to prepare against riots. Similar conditions existed along the killed during yesterday morning, hut they were told. And so they came all through the morning and afternoon. Home in Closed Autos.

At long intervals a closed delivery auto from one of the downtown department stores would halt at the curb and the human merchandise would climb aboard. Then, when the auto had been filled, the doors would bang shut, two cops would mount the steps beside the driver, and off they would go, to run any gantlet that might lie between the loop and home. "We've handled over 400 of them," 6tated Capt. Morgan Collins. They've come stringing in all day sometimes whole families at a time.

It's the best way to handle the situation." Some of the refugees wore bandages. Racial Unrest at Omaha; 'Birth of Nation' Stopped Omaha, July 29. Special. Negroes of Omaha are excited over the Chicago race riots. Workmen in South Omaha packing houses congregated in small groups today and discussed it.

This afternoon Mayor Smith closed a South Omaha moving picture house where The Birth of a Nation has been showing. The proprietor was ordered to change his film or remain closed until affairs are more quiet. with revolvers, terrified small groups of whites on the south side. They were first reported to have been seen at Forty-seventh street and been seen ai ony-sevenm fcirtfei. aim waa tfisspd into the river.

He climbed there ivas no serious rioting later in the day and Zest night. The subsidence of the rioting teas evident from a comparison of the map of affected district published in The Trihune" yesterday and the one shown herewith. IWentworth avenue, where they fired out of 'the water but the bse.ed him again and gave him another matn battleground between the races, After frlghtenins the whites into the affected area extending as far th homes! the neero soldiers walked He was rescued by policemen. A white man was attacked by four colored men with razors under a railroad viaduct at Thirty-first and La Salle streets. He had been slashed iiuiaiia aciiuc, u.

4 mi ij nth and Thirty-eighth btreeta. there tame a hail of lead from a house. The taxi was riddled with bullets. About fifty shots had been fired. The chauffeur kept on until he reached St.

Bernard's hospital. Then Lambert went hack and reported and the police started to search all the houses in the block for thesnipera. The riot at Thirty-second and State treets, in which the three policemen were wounded, was brought about by white men who were shooting into the homes of Negroes. -A Negro was arrested after a brave raid, made in the face of rifles, and he confessed he had been shooting. Hundreds of arrests were made, many were charged with murder; great quantities of rifles and revolvers and bullets were recovered.

The police were never more vigilant. Some Negroes Leave City. The loop had been denuded of Negroes long before the plock struck 12. Most of them had been taken to their homes by the police. Some had gone to Evanston; some left the city, taking their wives and children, and what household goods they could carry.

v. I rest Of th nnpth eVtnra about the face several times neu luK a'7 -r and twenty col ACCOUNT OF RIOT A mass meeting, scheduled to have ored, who are alleged to havB barricaded themselves in a house at 1021 South State street, and to have shot at all white men and women who passed, were placed under arrest after the house was raided. A laro-o mion. Veterinarian Kadly Hurt. A veterinarian, believed to be Dr.

Debold, white, employed by Armour Co. in the stockyards, suffered a possible fracture of the skull when he The totals of the killed and injured also showed that the police had the situation in hand, Kith the militia in reserve. While twenty-six were reported killed up to earli Tuesday morning, there was only one fatality during the afternoon and night as the result of yesterday's rioting. The rioting spread to the north side yesterday, but was confined to tico localities. The Xegro prisoners in the jail broke out in a violent attack on the guards end white prisoners during jtie morning.

This icas quickly sub-; dued. was struck by a brick as he vvas leav-1 tity of ammunition was captured. Har- south as Sixty-third street in a broad belt east and west of WenfirortTi avenue, the riot deadline. The chief clashes reported yesterday were in the following neighborhoods: Twelfth street and Hermitage avenue. Eighteenth and Lafliu streets.

Taylor street and Racine avenue. Fourteenth and Lytic streets. Twenty-sixth and Dearborn streets. Twenty-ninth and Federal streets. Thirty-first and State streets.

Thirty-first street and Wentworth avenue. Thirty-fifth and Stale streets. Forty-third and Robey streets. Sixty-first and Loomis streets. The crosses in the map indicate where the race disturbances took place during yesterday and last night.

old Signadell. white, was riddled with ing the stockyards. He was taken to the Washington Park hospital. Charles Shriker, 21 years old, 4420 South La Salle street, was shot in the last evening, at which Senator was to have spoken on the league of nations, was canceled by Senator Medill McCormlck yesterday on account of the race riots. Senator McCormick took this action following a conference with Gov.

Lowden at the Hlackstone hotel. Pullets passing this house. Those ar rested were charged with murder. Shot In the Back. to Forty-seventh and Federal streets where they met another group of whites.

Again they blazed away at the white persons among whom there were several women. Two of the women fainted and were thought for a short time to have been shot by the Negroes. Bullet Hits Cop's Star. As the men in soldiers' uniforms continued to terrorize the whites, a crowd of 500 blacks accumulated and urged the armed men on to further persecution. Patrolman James Young of the Sheffield avenue station was struck by a bullet which glanced off from his star.

It is believed that a laborer on the tracks of the Rock Island railroad, which is not far from the scene of the rioting, was struck and possibly killed by a stray bullet. The riot occurred directly in front of the station house of engine company No. 50, 4659 Wentworth avenue. Capt. George E.

Grades, in charge of the engine company, said he was fearful that the enraged Negroes would attempt to prevent the firemen from venturing out In case of a fire. back and beaten severely by three Ne One of the spectacular clashes of the John Cannon, white, of 4524 North Central Park avenue, was shot in the groes at Wells and Forty-sevenm streets. The wounded man was taken to the Englewood hospital. The police arrested the three Negroes. evening occurred at the Provident hos-j In the neighborhood of Milton ave-pital, when Negroes, angered at thejne and Division street and at Town-thought that the police had taken two Snd and Oak streets and adjoining white men to this hospital a negro districts the Sicilians began an attack back about 11 o'clock while passing the Illinois Central railroad tracks at Thir- OCEAN STEAMSHIP MOVEMENTS.

Port. Arrived. TIOEK VON STKT'BEN York York institution opened a not nre, and tietn street and Shields avenue. He told the police he thought a sniper was concealed on the tracks. He is Taxi Takes "Tribune" Men Through Hail of Bullets J.

G. Tobin, a cab driver, drove a Tribune: reporter and photographer through a rain of bullets which lasted from Fifty-third to Fifty-first on State street. The machine was struck four times. Negroes were distributed along the street for two blocks and opened fire on every automobile occupied by whites that passed. STKAI, FIVE Al'TOS NEAR CIU'RCII.

The Baptist ehurch at Waukeran evidently ha bpen selected as a base of operations for automobile thieve. Fire machines have btn stolen in the vicinity of the church riur- on some Xegro families. In the loop district two Xegroes were TROUBLE ON NORTH SIDE York at tne People's hospital. His- condi tion Is serious. Private Elwood Crowe, Company JQ regiment, Illinois reserve militia, was returning from his home at 5236 district.

The race feeling -was high In Lake 6treet, too, caused by eleven white men who stood up on the elevated structure and fired into Negro homes. F. J. LUCKENBACH New York ALOIS New York MONTPELIER New York HELI.IG OLA New York E.Mt'KEPS OK ASH. Shanghai ENTTRA 8an FTanc-9 MANOA San Francisco Sailed.

Port. AGAMKMNON New York CEDR1C New York ADRIATIC Liverpool ITALIA Gibraltar FC'-DOR Yokohama WFT KASSOY KTnol" avtuui) iu ine itn regiment armory, Wentworth avenue and Thirty-fifth street, when the Y'ellow taxi-cab in which he was riding was fired Whites, according to a report to the The Stanton avenue station, reopened i 4vt Molra Tne laut one to black Central police, were storming a house I yesterday. Is in the heart of the Beyond the riot at 468 70 West Division street, where Sicilians threw stones and Negroes inside fired fifteen shots, there was little trouble on the north Fide. The occupants of the houses, about 100 men, women, and pickaninnies, were taken to the Chicago avenue police station for protection. Charles Abbel, proprietor of the North Side Turner hall, sent over 700 sandwiches and pails and pails of hot coffee, and the refugees and the policemen on reserve enjoyed it.

They were told to thank Louis Piquette. chief clerk in the city attorney's office1, who helped bear on at Fortv-seventh tnA lose a machine is u. t. lager, wno was ai-on ax run; sevemn and State Streets. I ten1inr meeting of the church H.ry-lnr.

wounded three men. Another bitter engagement took place fit Thirtieth street and Wentworth avenue, and a white man was shot through the lungs. The man was one of a crowd of whites who stood on that corner, itching to get into the black belt." Twenty policemen held them back. Suddenly the men began to drift north. One of them threw a brick into a Ne-rro's house.

Shots were fired. Justine Mustare, 817 South State ftreet, fell bleeding on the sidewalk. A Tribune reporter, who saw the incident, rushed him to the office of a physician. It Is not believed the man will recover. The "black was threatened with starvation, many firms refusing to send delivery wagons into this district.

Retailers could get no meat or groceries from the big firms. The territory was unsafe for the drivers. at Eighteenth and- Lafiin streets occu- belt." There are 500 or more police-pied by a colored family and trying to men there in readiness. It is an armed drag out the occupants. camp, with dozens of autos, ratrols.

tcrnal revenue collector. Another is a policeman named Cunningham. Arrests Follow Killing. At State and Thirty-ninth street a Negro was reported to have been killed by one of four white men in a speeding auto. The men were arrested.

A Negro named S. Williams, 3531 Wabash avenue, was arrested after the Thirty-fifth and State street battle. Police Lieutenant Patrick Gallery declared he saw him deliberately fire into the face of a prostrate white man. J. A.

Gordon, white, 6116 Kenwood avenue, a hardware dealer, was driving his car, in which were his four children, at Thirty-eighth and Dear and ambulances. First Deputy Alcock is in charge. SPREADS TO THE LOOP BATTLES IN ENGLEWOOD CUTLER CORDOVANS FOR MEN born streets shortly after 11 o'clock, when he was shot in the left shoulder by Ben Artisan, colored, who gave his address as 45 West Thirty-eighth street. the expense. Priest Aid I-aw.

The Rev. Father Louis Glambastianl. O. S. pastor of St.

Philip Benizi's church, appealed to the Italians in his parish to obey the law, and the polices say it was largely due to his efforts that the neighborhood was so quiet. Acting Captain Ernest Mueller of The riot contagion which caught the Englewood district last night sent armed bands of rioters through the streets and alleys, precipitating several battles. Berger Odman, white, 21 years old, 5737 South Morgan street, was shot through the abdomen in the fighting at Sixtieth and Throop streets. He is at the Englewood hospital in a serious The race hate spread into the loop with the dawn, coming with crowds of shouting white rioters who had been thrust out of the Black Belt by their fear of the blacks, and by the menace of the police. They found the loop in confusion, due to the street car strike: the streets crowded with vehicles; few policemen; thousands of pedestrians.

The loop was theirs to riot in, and they went looking for victims. Before noon two Negroes were killed, and many were injured. 500 Storm Palmer House. The officials spoke of sending troops into the district; but the rioting calmed FIGHT AT 35TH AND STATE $9 Motorcycle Policemen Arthur Wilde and Charles Lund, who heard the shots, pursued the Negro west in Thirty-eighth street to State, where he turned south and began firing at the policemen as he ran. One of the bullets glanced from the pavement and struck Lund in the lip.

Artisan was captured after he had emptied his gun and was locked up at the Stanton avenue station. Gordon was taken to the Fort Dearborn hospital. the Chicago avenue station received, several reports that crowds of white men were congregating on corners In the' gold coast district and had threatened violence against the colored employes of the wealthy residents. He assigned an automobile load of policemen to tour the district to disperse any crowds that might gather. Fire from Hoofs.

Richard Coleman, colored, 904 Larra-bee street, was fired upon six times while he was standing in a vacant lot WEST SIDE RIOTS Perhaps the most serious affair of the night was the riot at Thirty-fifth and State streets, in which hundreds of shots were fired, the attack on the Provident hospital and the guerrilla war along State street which followed. Many were shot in this fighting, including a number of policemen possibly thirty all together, say the police. An automobile filled with armed white men swung off State and into Thirty-fifth street ehortly after 10 u'clock. The men were firing Into Negro houses. The machine crashed into a patrol wagon, and the occupants wore placed under arrest.

From the darkened houses on both e.ide of the street came pistol and rifle ehots. The police ambulance went clanging to the Provident hospital, a Negro in-feUtutlon. with two white men eeriouwly wounded. The Negroes tried to take the white men out of the hospital. rear his home.

The bullets failed to condition. Police Reserve Called. Throughout the territory bounded by South Racine avenue west to Loomis street, and from Sixty-third street north to Fifty-ninth street fighting became frequent, and reserves from all police stations near by were rushed to the scene. Two thousand men are said to have been engaged in the several clashes that occurred nearly at the same time at different roints in the area along Wentworth avenue. Rioters fired Into homes along the street and at persons in windows who were watching the fighting.

Police Charge Mob. At Forty-third and Robey streets the police charged into the rioters in close formation, attempting to disperse them by a massed attack, and, although they had drawn their revolvers, they used them only as clubs and did no shooting. Several men, both black and white, are said to have been wounded, and are belifved to have been carried off hit him. They were fired from the roofs of some of the tenement buildings In the Italian district. down after noon, after a mob of 500 had stormed the Palmer House to take a Negro employs.

At 6 o'clock a Negro porter was found by a mob at Wabash avenue and Adams street. He was beaten, trampled on, and then shot in the chest. He died on the way to a hospital. The other man killed was Robert Williams of 1532 West Jackson boulevard. He was with two friends.

James Minney, 915 South State street, was caught at Randolph, street and Wabash avenue and punished for being black. Morris Butler. 3200 Wabash avenue, was taken from a restaurant at 91 West Randolph street and left for dead outside upon the street. Finally he was. revived and removed.

One Negro escaped a mob by running into the Hub clothing store and Number 191 Dress-English Last Perforated Tip Oak-Finished Soles Full English Heels Do yott now of any better footwear than that which is made of flawless Cordovan? Rich, Distinctive, Long-Lived. Do yott know of a price for sach footwear that can possibly compare with Hardly! DOING FOR YOUNOT TO YOU is our belief. INCIDENTS OF DAY ltie levator. At Adams and IJearborn three Nccrnea i-iio- lv friends. battered automobile were surrounded I Mrs.

J. S. "Wilcox. 69 years old, 1420 by hundreds of angry white men, and West Sixty-second street, while sitting the mounted police and a number of ion the rear porch of her home last discharged soldiers in uniform had dif- Elmer Goern, colored Janitor of a building at 038 West Thirty-fifth street, barricaded himself' In the basement Sunday night when he learned of the rioting. Yesterday he decided that he needed a clean shirt, so he stepped across the street to get his laundry from.

Lee Moy. On the way back a collection of white caught and beat him. He broke loose and ran to his home and climbed under a bureau. Capt. Michael Gallery- sped to the scene in a taxieab.

He attempted to disperse the throng, but it refused to scatter. He fired a bullet which hit the pavement. passed through a thouser3 leg of Patrolman Merril, and then struck R. Thompson. 3313 Archer avenue, on the knee.

Thompson had a 2 month old baby in his arms. The infant was uninjured. Colored Aldermen Seek Peace, Aid. Louis B. Jackson and It.

R. Anderson, both colored, of the Second ward, toured the black belt yesterday afternoon urging moderation an attempting pacify those of their race. Ex-Aid. Oscar Tjo Priest also told of Men's Ilose, too and an 'expert shoe repair $9.23 the pair A CUTLER Consistently LowEU Price. right was wounded in the head by a stray bullet.

In the block between West Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth streets on Normal avenue a crowd of 200 whites stoned several Negroes, but the latter escaped. Though most of the riots occurred on the south side, the most atrocious affair was committed on the west side. An unidentified Negro about 25 years old was pulled oft his bicycle in front of S3Lytle street by a great, jeering, taunting, bloodthirsty crowd. They beat and kicked him, then stabbed and shot him sixteen times, and when he was dead they poured gasoline on his body and set it afire. Factory Owner in Battle.

George C. Cook, head of George C. Cook Sons 705 South Loomis street, staggered into the alley at the rear of his factory about 6 o'clock, according to the police, and fired about twenty shots. Jesse Vlnaci, 11 years old, 823 South Loomis street, and U. Partello.

141S Spruce street, were wounded. An excited crowd gathered, believing that some of the Negro employes had done the shooting. Cook and his son. George are alleged to have fired on them. The crowd fired back.

One of the flve Negro employes remaining in the factory was caught and beaten. The police saved his life. He is William Donaldson. 1103 South Winchester avenue. He Is at the county hospital.

Shortly before this riot a crowd cf whites chased an unidentified Negro into a fiat building at 920 South Laflin street, where he opened fire on them from a second story window. As far as the police could learn, no one was hurt by the Negro's bullets, but according to an unconfirmed report three white girls had been wounded. 2,000 Storm Homes. A crowd of 2.000 attacked the residences -of Negroes at 813 S15 South Hermitage avenue. The police rescued the occupants and took them to the homes of Negrots la the Lake etreet Notable Name and Number- qA TROUBLE NEAR STOCKYARDS They stormed- the place, firing hundreds of ehots.

Detective Sergeant Thomas Middleton was hit. Special Policeman S. B. Barksdoll. colored, 3671 State street, and Special Policeman Ben Drake, colored, 3141 South Park avenue, were aluo wounded.

The Negroes barricaded themselves within their homes. The street lights had been shot out. There were no lights in the houses, bjt now and then there came a flash and a roar. Three Motor Cops Shot. The motorcycle policemen went by these menacing black houses with their cut-ou's open, and the Negroes shot at them.

Motorcycle Policemen Ralph Cheney. Floyd Wilcox and Jerry Murray were wounded ut Thirty -second and State streets. Lieut. Thomas Fitzgerald organized a platoon and raided tho house at 10 12, 15 West Thirty-second street, despite the ritles spitting lead, arresting thirty colored men and women. He declares he got the man who shot the two policemen.

He was usin an old-style 45-TO rifle, an er. jrmous weapon. He gave the name of John Dixon, and made a confession, says the lieutenant. He admitted he and his companions had been shooting at every white man passing by. One cf the -white men wounded at Thirty-fifth and State was Frank llo-, IekiiSi) West Zlonvon street, an ja.

uiuuy in making a rescue. Hoodlums Search Loop. Later in the evening crowds of hoodlums, at times menacing and at others only playful, searched the loop district for Negroes last night without Violence was avoided the police say, by the fact there was scarcely a colored citizen In the downtown district. The crowds, which at times numbered 1,000 'persons, were broken up r-gain and again by the police only to reform a few blocks away. At 8 o'clock a mob formed at the Clark street side of the Sherman house Its leaders demanded that colored waiters, believed to be within the hotel handed over.

Three house detectives wore unable to handle the situation and railed the detective bureau. A wagon load of detectives dispersed the crowd temporarily, while Sam Jones, the only colored employe In the hotel' raced down an for th central polic station. Chief House Detective O'Rourke STATE SOUTH PALMER HOUSE- The police were informed during the afternoon that a white woman and a white man had been shot and killed at Forty-seventh street and "Wentworth avenue, and that at the Panhandle railroad viaduct at Forty-seventh street a truck containing employes of Swift Co. had ben fire-i upon. The chauffeur was reported, killed.

It was also reported that a white policeman had been shot to death at Thirty-fifth and State streets. William Henderson, colored, was arrested by the Stockyards police and charged with the murder of Joseph P. Powers, street car conductor, whose throat was cut. ThouxoA Harrington, 49 year old. No.

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