The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1886-05-13
BLOODY WORK.
Tho Chicago Anarchists Begin to
Fulfill Their Threats,
And Use Dynamite With Fearful Effect
Upon Squad of POIice--Terribie Reta-
iation-Scenes Among thewound-
ed and Dying Policemen


Upon Squad of POIice--Terribie Reta-
iation-Scenes Among thewound-
ed and Dying Policemen
CHICAGO, May 5.-The lawless element
| is still industriously at work in the lum-
Der region. One or two threatening
crowds were dispersed yesterday morn
ing by the police without bloodshed. The
police entered upon their service with
spirit and the engagements We're short,
sharp and decisive. In the afternoon, in
rain storm, about seven hundred strik-
ers marched upon the paint works of
Cary, Ogden & Parker, 276 to 2S+ West
| Eighteenth street. The four special po-
| licemen on duty were pelted with stones
and bricks, and soon fed for their lives
| One of them stumbled and fell, and while
| living on the ground fired into the ap-
preaching rabble. The rioters halted for
a moment, until one of the leaders waved
q rusty saber over his head and urged his
companions to kill the PROSTATE officer.
About this time the Hinman street and
! Twelfth street patrol wagons filed with
officers ratified down the street.
When the blue vehicles neared the
rioters, the officers took aim over each
others shoulders and fred volley after
volley over the strikers heads. The
effect was amusing. Men with their
pockets filed with stones, and men with
Slavonic boards and wooden swords hud-
died behind barricadeS no more sub
stantial than picket fence; others
| darted down Eighteenth street to Center
avenue, near which is a sort of rem
devious for the thousands of foreign
strikers in the neighbOrhood. Here the
mob made desperate stand. Officer
Small, of the Iinman Street station,
| lcaped out of his wagon and started after
one of the leaders of the riot, who was
yelling to his comrades to blow up the
police with dynamite. He ran into the
crowd and grabbed the Anarchist by the
neck. The latter screamed for help.
The rioters surged about the Off
Ger and his struggling prisoner,
and then fell upon the former
with stones and clubs. Officer Small, to
defend himself, fired several shots into
the crowd, but without effect. The
shooting then became hot and indiscrim-
mate. SmaPs comraGeS ran to his assist
ance, but before he was rescued from his
perilous position he was shot through
the hand. His prisoner escaped. Re
ports of exploding cartridges came from
every quarter and the air was filed with
smoke.
"KILL THE HIRELINGS,"
5awled man with red whiskers, as he
pointed an ancient revolver at Officer
Small Before he could pull the trig-
ger Detective Michael Granger struck
L 4I foil fn
ground. The mob then pounced upon
Granger and dragged him into the muddy
street. A rock as large as a cOCoanut
whiZzed past his check and brick hit
him in the forehead. The detective fell
to the ground with 4 stream of blood
pouring from Jagged wound. The re-
mainder of the officers becoming exasper-
ated at the resistance displayed by the
rapidly growing mob, fired score of
shots into the sursing, howling mass.
One man was seen To drop, but his
comrades picked him up, and hurried
through neighbOring alley. The sight
of Anarchist blood seemed to ill
the rioters with fear, for as soon as they
learned that one of their number had
been shot they fed prccipitately.
The officers then charged upon them
and captured seven of the leaders. They
were taken to the Twelfth and Hinman
street station.
Rain fell necessarily during the fight
After the officers had departed with their
prisoners, the clouds rolled away and the
sun shone brightly. The little children
of the Anarchists came out OF their houses
and played on the sidewalks. An hour
later the wives of the Anarchists hung
themselves over the gates of their front
fences and talked wildly to each other.
Then the Anarchists themselves Crcpt out
OF their dens and Skulkcd along the streets
like thieves in Railways. They carried
clubs and slung-SnOtS, and appeared as
though they wanted to hit somebody. The
officers being in sight, they sat on the
curbstones and fire-plugs until it was
dark, and then they resumed their rest
less proving about the streets.
At half-paSt seven O'Clock two OF the
scanS employed at the Mccormick reaper
works had the temerity to walk east on
Eighteenth street to Center avenue. Two
of tho prOwlng Anarchists recognized
them. The ScabS did not know this.
When the ScabS reached the corner the
two Anarchists pounced on them and
throw them TO the ground. Other An
archistS then came up and began to beat
D1OSJTSIe ultn NiIil CLUBS. 1Ht
screams of the, unfortunate men were
heard by Officer Quigley, of the Twelfth
street station. He ran to the rescue, but
was driven back by a shower of stones.
A shot was fred by one of the Anarchists,
and then cobblc-StOne struck the officer
in the breast, telling him to the ground.
He regained his feet, however, and turned
in an alarm to the Twelfth street station.
Five minutes later twelve officers leaped
out of patrol wagon and cleared the
street.
CHICAGO, May 5.-Three thousand men
and bows stood around three barrels and
boxes on Desplaines street, between Ran
dolph and Lake streets, at eight O'Clock
last evening. August Spies, the editor F,
of the Arbiter ZeituRg, the Anarchis. or
gan in this city, stood on one CT the bar
RES. He made brief speech to the |
crowd. and then introduced A. r. Par |
sons, one of the pronounced leaders OF !
the movement The latter told his hear |
ers that Instead of getting ten hours pay |
for eight hours work, statistics proved |
that workingmen to-day were only get |
ting two hours pay for ten hours work. |
He warned his audience that the time |
would come when the brutal oppression |
of the capitalists would drive every one |
save themselves into the ranks of socialism. .
There was more danger to capitalism |
from the Knights of Labor outside OF |
the organization known by that name |
than from the organization itself. The |
existing social order was founded in |
fraud, and maintained by force, and he |
counseled his hearers to arm themselves
and he prepared 10 meet force by force. |
for they were in the majority and could |