Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1919 — RACE RIOTS CONTINUE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE. [ARTICLE]

RACE RIOTS CONTINUE ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE.

Chicago, July 28.—Seven persons were killed and more than two score wounded, many of them seriously, in a renewal of race rioting in the Chicago “black befit” tonight. For more than five hours the five mile area on the south side was a battle ground of scattered fights between whites and negroes and between poheemen and negroes who fired from housetops, from dark alleys and other points of vantage. The call for troops to quell the outbreaks resulted in four regiments of national guardsmen being mobilized, but at a late hour tonight they had not been dispatched to the disturbed district, and Chief of Police Garrity expressed the belief that the worst of the disorder had passed. Five of the dead are negroes and two are whites. The wounded, in most cases, were hurried to hospitals after which they were removed to their homes when conditions permitted.