The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-05-05
Heartrending Scenes at the
Station.
BLOWING UP THE POLICEMEN.
A German Paper on the War Path
Back to Work-rhe Mob
Dispersed.
German Paper on the War Path.

German paper, edited by spies,
socialist, who was one of the
speakers who excited yesterday riot at
Mccormick, announces this afternoon
that great meeting of 1.-The people"
will be held tonight on Desplaines
Street, and whoever condemns the
horrible bntchery Of yesterday must be
there" The paper further says:
WorkingmeH: The hated police yes
terday murdered four OF your brothers
and then wounded perhaps twenty-five
more at McCormIek's factory. Had
your brothers. who had nothing but
stones to defend themselves, been
armed with good weapons and q few
dynamite bombs, none of the murder
ers would have escaped. As IL was,
only four of them (the policemen) were
wounded. That Is sad. Yesterdays
massacre occurred that the forty thou
sand strikers in this city might be filed
with fear and terror, and that the
dissatisfied and rebeliious laborers
might be driven under the yoke OF
slavery. Will this end be accomplished
Has not a miscalculatiOu been made
The next few days will answer this
question. We will not speculate on the
course of events"
The paper then goes on to give de-
tailed account of the trouble and puts
the responsibility entirely on the public.
Spies also says that some Bohemians
and Poles in the background of the
crowd he was addressing raised the cry.
" On to Mccormick s." The same paper
also says that the police yesterday used
their clubs in dispensing the procession
of sinking girls. and adds: " In whose
VEINS does not the blood course faster
when ne hears of this sha eful act of
these beasts. Whoever is a man must
show il these days. Men to the 'front.'
BLOWING UP POLICEMEN.
CHICAGO. May 4.-1O.40 p.m.-A re-
port is just received that six policemen
have been killed in Haymarket. where
the anarchists are holding meeting.
A man who was standing in tie
crowd received a pistol ball in
his thigh, and has just been
brought TO the Central Police sta
ton. He says that during the progress
of q speech by one of the Socialists,
squad of officers marched by close TO
the speakers stand. Someone shouted /:
xiii the - -" Almost as
soon as the words had been uttered.
three bombs were thrown from . rear
stand into the midst of the squad OF
officers They exploded instantly and
five policemen Tell Utners were
wounded and several of the Socialists
did not escape. An officer who has
just arrived from the scene says there
Is hardly any doubt that at least five
on the west side, many squares from
the scene of the disturbance, report
that the explosion of bombs. which we're
terrific. was instantly followed by a
fusilade of revolver shots.
More coherent accounts are coming
in, and they point TO q much more dis
astrous ARRAY than ut first reported.
About two hundred officers were de-
tailed to attend the meeting. ana had
been in the vicinity since the socizlits
had begun to assemble. At the time Of
the throwing Of bombs, the crowd had
dwindled to less than 1000. The ut
terances OF the speakers were Of the
most inflammatory chaIacte however,
and the rioters who still remained grew
riotous in their demeanor. The police
concluded 70 put an end to the disturb
Ance. and advancing, ordered the crowd
to dispense. At first the Socialists fell
back slowly. the speakers still urging
them to stand firm. Suddenly bombs
were thrown. The police retorted In
stsnuy with a volley from their re-
volvers. The rioters answered with
theirs which the sequel shows they
we're well provided with. The
mob appeared erazed with q
fanatic desire for blood. and
after volley into the midst of the
officers. The latter fought calamity
and ut last dispersed the mob and
cleared the market place. They are
now guarding every approach TO the
place and no one is allowed there. Inn
mediately after the first explosion the
officers who were left standing drew
their revolvers and fred round after
round into the mob. A large number
of them fell, and as they dropped
they were immediately carried
10 the rear and into the many dark
alleyways by their friends. No estimate
Of the casualties can be given, but the
police ut Desplaines Street Station
state that fully fifty OF them
were wounded. The drug stores
N the vicinity are crowded with people
who were hurt. and doctors have been
telephoned TO in all directions. Before
the firing had ceased, the neighboTing
ponce stations were turned into lem
porary hospitals. At IL O'CLOCK twenty
policemen lay on the floor Of Despiaines
station, all disabled and probably half
OF that number seriously so. Others
were reported TO be still lying in the
open square, either dead or badly
wounded. A telephone message from
one of the hospitals says that the
wounded officer brought there has
since died. Officer Joseph ID. Egan died
on the way 10 the station.
Later reports at Desplaines-street
station indicate that even more than
at first estimated were wounded among
the socialists. The scenes At the station
are heartrending. In one large room
lie some fifty officers and doctors all
dressing their wounds. The wife Of ono
Of the men has Just come in and upon
learning that her husband was among
the wounded, fell down in faint and
bad 70 be carried home.
u-30 p.m.-More firing has Just been
heard near the place Of the former
trouble and q large number Of police
have lust left the station for the
place. Some fifteen shots were heard
IL Is reported that August Spies IS IN 3
saloon on Lake Street and the police
have been sent 10 arrest him. RELATIVES
of Officers Timothy. Flavin. George