Seely 1 Lesson Plan: The Red Summer: An Examination of Urban ...
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<strong>Seely</strong> 14<br />
the district bounded by Wells street and Wentworth Avenue and Thirty-ninth and Fifty-third<br />
streets. During the day sixty-five alarms had been sounded.<br />
Mob at Burning Building.<br />
When firemen reached a burning two story brick building at 5029 Shields avenue they found<br />
a howling mob outside and two old Negro men, two colored women, and a white girl<br />
cowering under a large table on the second floor. <strong>The</strong> occupants were rescued and the fire<br />
extinguished. Negroes set fire to the home <strong>of</strong> a Mrs. Donohue, at 746 West Fifty-Second<br />
Street, and shots were being fired into the windows when the fire companies reached the<br />
scene.<br />
At 4757 South Wells street, occupied by Negroes, a crowd dragged a talking machine and<br />
other articles <strong>of</strong> furniture outside and set fire to them. Firemen extinguished a blaze at 5422<br />
South La Salle street at 10 o'clock, only to be called back to put out a second one at 11:30.<br />
Barns and wood sheds in the rear <strong>of</strong> houses occupied by Negroes were set on fire at 215,<br />
245, and 248 West Forty-Sixth Street. Several homes vacated by Negroes during the day<br />
were found in flames.<br />
Other Fires.<br />
Other addresses at which fires broke out were:<br />
5031 Shields avenue.<br />
4802 Wentworth avenue.<br />
4447 Wentworth avenue.<br />
4746 South Wells street.<br />
4742 South Wells street.<br />
148 West Forty-fourth street.<br />
3910 South Wells street.<br />
4744 South Wells street.<br />
4535 Portland avenue.<br />
4716 South Wells street.<br />
4735 South Wells street.<br />
6817 Elizabeth street.<br />
3735 South Wells street.<br />
4617 South Wells street.<br />
2932 South Wells street.<br />
Firemen Stoned.<br />
Several false alarms were turned in by rioters, evidently with the intention <strong>of</strong> stoning the<br />
firemen when they arrived on the scene. This occurred on several occasions. Marshal Joseph<br />
Kenyon <strong>of</strong> the 12th battalion was responding to an alarm at Fifty-fourth and Dearborn<br />
streets with engine company No. 51 when he was turned back by the police and warned<br />
there was no fire there.<br />
A crowd <strong>of</strong> Negroes stopped in front <strong>of</strong> the headquarters <strong>of</strong> engine company 61 at 5300<br />
Wentworth avenue and attacked twenty white men. Firemen closed the doors to the station,<br />
whereupon the Negroes began firing through the doors. Several men climbed through the<br />
windows to escape the crowd outside.