St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-05
DYNAMITE BOMBS
Used With Deadly Effect by Chi
cago Socialists on
Police.
Battle With Revolvers Between the
Authorities and the
Crowd.
Twenty Two Officers Killed and Wounded
and Host Of Anaroh-
lists Hurt.
A Spectacle Of Indescribable Carnage in
the Streets Of the Garden
City.
The Bodies of the Dead and Injured
Strewing the Ground Till
Picked Up.
Station Houses Turned Into Tempo
rary Hospitals Where Pitiable
Scenes are Enacted.
StreWing the Ground Till
Picked Up.
Station Houses Turned Into Tempo
rary Hospitals Where Pitiable
Scenes are Enacted.
SociaIistic Assassins.

Socialistic Assassins.
Special to the Globe.
CHICAGO, May 4.-'The agitation which
the socialists have brought about in con-
nection with the strikes. eliminated to-
night in bloody and disgraceful riot. in
volving the loss of a number of lives. At
meeting of socialists in Haymarket
square on the West side. August Spies, A.
Il. Parsons and other anarchist leaders
| addressed the crowd of about 1900,
! advocating the murder of capitalists and
destruction of property. About 10 o'clock
| large squad OF police moved up from the
DeSplaines street station for the purpose of
arresting the chief socialists. Spies, Schwab
Parsons and Fielden. There were wild
cries of defiance from the socialists as the
police formed about them, and in the next
moment dynamite bomb was exploded III
| their midst. Then followed wild scene
of terror and confusion. All in the neigh
bOrhOOd were
RUNNING FOR THEIR LIVES,
while pistol bullets were flying thick and
fast i'll every direction. People fell in their
haste and others fell over them, until they
We're four or five deep, and made desperate
| struggles to escape from the bullets and
bombs which were feared at every point.
There were fierce cries of desperation and
| pitiful means of both police and civilians,
who had been more or less mangled
by the bomb or wounded by bullets.
In less than two minutes the
street was clear with the exception of those
who lay wounded upon the street. The
patrol wagons, which were Immediately
summoned. were busy for time removing
| the wounded policemen to the police station,
and physicians were hurriedly sent for to
dress their wounds. Capt. Ward at once
telephoned to every police station in the
city for reinforcements of all the men, and
ordered the rifles brought up from the Gel
lar. There was never more exciting time
in any police station of the city. as all the
officers who were able were preparing for
whatever
EMERGENCY MIGHT ARISE,
| while so many of their brother officers were
| lying in blood and agony, some of them
fatally wounded. After the wounded Of
| ficerS had been taken to the stations, mat
tresses and pillows were hurriedly brought
from the sleeping rooms. and temporary
beds were arranged on the floor of the drill
room. The more desperately injured were
made as comfortable as possible, and run
ners were dispatched for medical assist
ance. Lying on the beds and tables about
the room were the brave fellows who had
been made the victims of socialiStic
fury. Pending the arrival of the physi-
clans those of the officers who had escaped
the fury of the mob did everything in their
power to alleviate their suffering brothers.
Clothing was cut from about the wounds.
and before the surgeons arrived the scene
was fac smile of the interior Of an army
hospital during an engagement. On every
hand could be seen pools of blood about the
improvised beds, and strong men were
moaning in agony from the horrible wounds
inflicted by the cowardly assassins.