Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1886-02-11


aside like chat and host of desperate
men rushed up Mr.. Morley's stops. He
had locked and barricaded his door, but
IL was burst open against his face, and
the house was oyerrun despite his frantic
screams and protests. When the invaders
went away they left scarcely sound
pane of glass in the building. A very
great number of other private houses
along the mobs route Jared much worse
than did John Brights old home.
The Devonshire Club House, which had
been previously attacked, is in st. James
street. The attack upon this building
took place at the very beginning of the
riot and was very savage.
Hatchett's Hotel is large and we'll
known hostelry at Nos. 81 aud 90 Picoa-
diliy. When the mob passed this locality
many of the rank and file were hungry,
and these made arush for the hotel. They
had it in their possession in a moment
and they sacked il of food and drink and
left the building badly wrecked.
As the men were leaving the hotel they
saw a carriage, which. had been pressed
up against the curb by the passing pro-
cession and been abandoned by the
frightened occupants II was seized, and
in an instant broken up and the wheel
spokes, shafts and other good pieces were
carried away for clubs. The Turf Clubs
House, being in Piccadilly, presented a
temptation to the rioters as they went by,
and they smashed all its front doors and
windows with stones.
All along Regent and Oxford streets,
between Piccadilly and Hyde Park, houses
were attacked Unfortunately and their
windows smashed in.
Every person met who looked like q
foreigner was stoned or beaten from the
street. Scores OF times policemen at
tempted to save assailed property and to
make arrests, but were every time beaten
and compelled to surrender their
prisoners. In the meantime several
thousand rowdies remained in Trafalgar
square, occupying their time in daring
the police to "come on" and in making
PUSHES at the constables and other
obnoxious persons. In one of these
rushes the mob overthrow two heavy
granite pillars. These fell across Charing
Gross, and blocked the traffic to and from
the oharing Gross railway station.
The police made several desperate exer-
tons TO clear away this obstruction, but
We're easily resisted every time by the
mob. This mob held their ground so
well Mt Trafalgar square that until they
voluntarily abandoned the scene the
entire power of the police proved INSULT
cient to clear way to one of the most
important railway stations in the world
large enough to permit even single car
ringe line to pass to or from the depot.
Some time after dark the mob gradually
left Trafalgar square. They went away
satisfied that, without having actually
collided with the police, they had won
the day. As the mob dispersed its sections
made havoc in the streets until they
dwindled away.
The scenes which characterized the re.
treat of that section of the Hyde Park
mob which went through Oxford street
also attended the retreat of the other sec.
tions OF the crowd. Every street they
entered was surrendered to them, and al
midnight the police reports concurred in
stating that never before in the present
generation has such q tremendous dis
turbance occurred in London with so
little loss of blood. Some officials de-
clare that upwards of $4,000 men must
have been rioting for at least six hours,
with absolute possession of every thor
oughfare they chose to invade. Yet no
life is reported to have been taken.
If the police had been strong enough to
attack the mob at any point there might
have been terrible records to make. But
at midnight everything is pretty much as
it was yesterday, and the whole thing ap-
pears to have been sort of nightmare
While it lasted the city was thorouehly
excited, but the mob was essentially
English-it made frightful demonstra-
ton, was not resisted and went to bed at
the usual time.
LONDON, Feb. S.-According to Inter
estimates, there were Is 900 persons en-.
gagged in the Trafalgar square demonstra.
ton. Two, thirds of the crowd were bona
| tide unemployed workingmen, while the
remainder were Socialists. The two sec
tions were not in accord, and there were
frequent collisions between them. The
| worklngmen took no part in the riotous
acts That followed the meeting in
| Trafalgar square. The Socialists, aroused
70 fury by the violent TRADES of
the speakers in the square, created q
three-hours' reign of terror. Jewelry
shops were broken into and their con
tents carried OFF by the mob. Carriages
containing ladies were stopped on the
streets and the occupants forced to alight.
Some of the rioters entered the vehicles
and drove at the head of the crowd. The
mob swept through the streets, shouting {:
Smash the windows; let's get inside the
shops" All decently attired persons who
encountered the rioters were maltreated,
the wearers of silk hats meeting with par
ticularly rough usage.
Lord Randolph Churchill appeared at q
window of the Carlton Club building
when the mob reached there. He was
loudly booted and menaced with clenched
hsts by the rioters. The leaders of the
Socialists, especially Burns, Hyndman,
Williams and Champion, the last named
OF whom is an ex-captain of artillery, will
probably be prosecuted. The most violent
acts were committed oil North and South
Audley streets and Oxford street.
| Probably 200 shops and dozen club
houses were seriously damaged, and about
50shops were pillaged, including jewelers..
bakers, butchers and wine shops. Hun.
dreds of inoffensive people were NAL
treated. The police were powerless AZ
hrst, but they ultimately succeeded in
restoring order by breaking up the ranks
of the rioters into small squads. The
military were kept under arms all the
evening, while policemen patrolled the
| streets.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Sparling, Socialist
leader, in an interview in relation TO the
part taken by the Socialists in the demon
STATIONS yesterday said that while he did
not approve of rioting, still he nonld NOT