The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-03-30

could burn or wreck He had had bad luck how
ever, he said. Friday night he had shot gen.
darme dead during a melee had been captured
with half dozen of these canaille, as he called
the Belgian strikers, and now expected to be
hanged in a few weeks for conspiracy and
murder
"And what good does all this do your asked
the cynical brute Not Bit he replied. but
was tired of touting for maisons de joie, and was
glad 20 get the money which the Communists
will always pay for a fellow to run his neck into
the halter But come here and will show you
man who believes it ALL We went to the hos
pitai ward, where found still more villainous-
looking rufian. with big beard who was nurs-
ing bullet shattered shoulder. Immediately
after being introduced he began Boosting that he
was Nihilist and not private in the ranks.
but high officer, being No. in the largest
section in Moscow. / asked him how he or his
cause were likely to be benefited by such q car
nival of murder and outrage as was then going
about Us. Not directly he replied. but 1t
is an incident of our system. These simultaneous
bonfres in France and Belgium are signs that
are perfectly ineligible to the despots of Europe.
however little they are understood by their
stupid police. Months ago the three chief
butchers, Alexander, Francis Joseph and Will
helm, informed by writings from us that
these portents would be found in the sky at this
time. Think you that the ful6llment of that
warning to the day and to the letter will not
give these brutes some realizing idea OF our pow
will net think of these bonfires in the same cate
CORY with the fate of his father, with the Nieder
wald explosion and the other portents he has
scent have seen him, grand in his white, dia-
mond -buttoned uniform, blazing with orders
and wearing sword like q soldier, yet covering
behind his guards in his own throne-room. l
shall think when go to the scaffold that have
aided to add one more shadow to his mind by
day one more terror to his heart by night, and
shall die content For this fauatical devil of
la ma nj rom Franco. K
poets to swing for murder only it was a woman,
fighting in defense of her honor. whom the Rus
sian fend slew.
From the Jail / rode to the headquarters of
General Won der Smisscn, the only man have
seen in Belgium who appreciates the size Of the
task the government has before it in suppressing
this instruction. / told him portion of what
had heard at the Jail. and / asked him how
soon he thought he could pacify the district for
the General, although detained at Charleroi, has
command over the whole of the disturbed dis
trict, and receives reports from the various
towns before guard mount every morning
THE General replied: If the revolt can be To-
Called here and if can get troops as fast as
want them, can strangle it in ten days. But
very much fear similar outbreaks in other and
perhaps remote parts OF the country, which
would strain the resources at the War Office to
find troops to suppress
General Won der Smisson has adopted tao
tics very similar to those Of General Sheridan
after the great fire at Chicago The entire dis
stir abroad without pass from a staff orfcer.
Resistance to arrest means death. Every
sroup or flve men or over Is defined Ia
general orders as mob, and Is fired
upon with ball cartridge after neglecting one
summons to dispense. Houses from which the
troops are habtually attacked. are raided and
all the inmates arrested. If they resist arrest
too viciously the house is blown up with gun
powder. Yet with all these stern measures of
repression, the military force is 80 small, and
the points to be guarded many. that riotine,
pillage arson and rapine go apparently
checked. At midnight last night the sky was
illuminated by confagratons One was the
burning of a blastfurnace and rolling mill ten
miles east of Charleroi. The other was q fire in
colliery about six miles to the northwest I
rode to the latter place, and scene rival
nag the grotesque horrors OF Dante's Inferno.
The hosting house, Offices, sheds and elevated
tramway had by this time been burned, and the
blackened timbers stood out like gigantic skele-
tons IN the fierce freight. Thousands of tons
of screened coal were smoldering in fire which
gave out long tongueso of blue, sulphurous flames,
which furnished an appropriate light anfsmell for
the diabolical revels. The iends of this minia-
ture hell had fired the great shaft by sinking the
cage filed with barrels OF blazing pitch to the
bottom. A roaring column of fame arose
straight from the mouth of the pit fifty feet into
the air. Occasionally some unusually large
of burning timber would fall to the bot
tom. A volcanic eruption Of sparks would be
shot up from the mine apparently to the zenith,
and be followed by fierce flames. Around this
monument of fire three hundred drunken men
and half naked, besotGed women had formed
ring by joining hands and were executing dew
IFS dance until many dropped to the ground
from exhaustion and the effect of the blazing
FIRE upon their brandy-maddened brains One
poor devil hunchback, fell within the circle
instead of outside, and was literally roasted to
death Outside the great circle other
drunken women held babes up high over
their heads to see tho pretty fire. And this
mine which was in full operation On Sat
urday, and TO which every one OF those drunken,
dancing demons looked for their daily bread.
Equally thrilling incidents of the rioting in the
streets and suburbs could be given without num-
Der, but must summarize for want of space.
The damage to the property in the disturbed dis
trict is now estimated by moderate men as 25,-
900, 900 francs. The number Of troops in the
ield exceeds 15, 600 and should be doubled. with
twenty batteries of artillery to be placed at in
farseetions of streets in the cities to NOW down
'aobs with grape that are uncomfortable by in
santry. Every jewelry store and gun-shop in
stharieroi, and nearly every liquor warehouse
ind drinking saloon has been looted
and more or less completely wrecked. Churches
have been robbed of all articles of
precious metal. More than a hundred collieries,
foundries and residences have been burned. The
latter were the property of the bourgeosie gem
orally. the rioters not discriminating in this re-
spect against employers Hundreds of citizens
have been robbed In the streets in daylight One
young lady who wore diamond ring that was
tight upon her flyer had her finger amputated by
the ruffians with chisel and mallet. Scores of
virtuous women have been outraged. In two
cases mothers who fought to preserve their hon
or had the brains of their babies dashed out be-
fore their eyes.
FINALLY, although little affected by the vapor-
ings of the Anarchists, which l have heard be-
fore in many European capitals. and generally
seen disproyed. / am Convinced that we are but
on the threshold of the disorders which may
spread to every place where coal or iron is mined
ia Europe. especially urge the British authori-
ties to watch events in Yorkshire, Lancashire
and Wales