Josephine Taylor. A.B., Smith College, 1920; volunteer, social service department, Cook County Hospital, Chicago, summer of 1919.
C. EPITOME OF FACTS IN RIOT DEATHS
I. Deaths due to mob violence, and in which the coroners' jury recommended members of the unknown mob be apprehended and held to justice, and in which none of the members were so apprehended. The cases listed in this category do not include all those due to mob violence, but only those qualified as stated:
| 1. Eugene Williams | |
| Race | Negro |
| Date of death | July 27 |
| Approximate time of death | Probably 4:00 p.m. |
| Place where death occurred | Lake Michigan at foot of Twenty-ninth Street |
| Manner in which death occurred | Drowning |
Quarrel arose on beach between Negroes and whites in regard to the use of the beach. Many stones were thrown on both sides. Williams, in the water, was prevented from landing because of stone-throwing and drowned as consequence.
| 2. John Mills | |
| Race | Negro |
| Date of receiving death wound | July 28 |
| Time of receiving death wound | 5:35 p.m. |
| Place of receiving death wound | Normal Avenue, 150 feet south of Forty-seventh Street |
| Manner of wound | Skull fracture; beating |
Mob of 300 or 400 white people, all ages, attacked east-bound Forty-seventh Street car, pulled the trolley from the wire, stopped the car. White passengers alighted, Negro passengers hid under seats. From twenty-five to fifty white men boarded car and beat the Negroes with bats, clubs, bricks. Driven out from the refuge of the car, they ran for their lives, chased by the mob. Mills ran from Forty-seventh Street into Normal Avenue. A brick hit him in the back, halted him, and before he could run again a young white man hit him on the head with a scantling. He was left unconscious. Four other Negroes from this car were beaten but not fatally.
| 3. Oscar Dozier | |
| Race | Negro |
| Date of receiving death wound | July 28 |
| Time of receiving death wound | 5:55 p.m. |
| Place of receiving death wound | Thirty-ninth Street and Wallace Avenue |
| Manner of wound | Stabbing; external violence |
Dozier worked for the Great Western Smelting and Refining Works. The foreman warned negroes not to try to go home till adequate protection could be furnished. In spite of the warning Dozier was seen to crawl over the fence around the works at 5:45 p.m. He was next seen breaking away from a mob of 500 to 1,000 white men at Thirty-ninth Street and Parnell Avenue. He ran west on Thirty-ninth toward Wallace, the crowd throwing stones. Halfway down the block he fell. When rescued by the police immediately afterward he was found to have a stab wound two inches long over his heart.