Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1917 — CITY QUIET HEATH LIST IS 37 [ARTICLE]

CITY QUIET HEATH LIST IS 37

Over 2,000 Soldiers on Guard; Ringleader* to Be Nabbed. East St. Louis. Illinois. July 5. A federal investigation of race riots here in which thirty-three negroes and four whites were killed and approximately 310 negro homes were burned Monday was begun yesterday by (?01. GeOrge H. Hunter, chief quartermaster of. the Central division of the United States army. Col Hunter is under instructions to make a full report of the trouble to • Major General Thomas H. Barry at Chicago, commandant of the Central department.