Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
RIOTS REIGN.
Chicago Socialists Use Dynamite
with Terrible Erect

ABomb Thrown Into the Midst Of : BODY
OF Police, Who Retur tho Complinent
with Powder and Ball--Many
Killed and Wounded.
GORE m THE ARDEN CITY.
cmcAao, May 5.4The eigft-hour move
ment led to a bloody conflict between the
Socialists and police in, Haymarket square
about 1890 O'Clock last night. The So
cialist speakers were ~haranguing a mob
which the police attempted to dispense.
Some mysterious hand hurled adynamite
bomb which exploded in the midst OF
the officers. One was Instantly killed
and forty.six wounded, several Of them
fatally. The police returned q broadside
FIRE killing one Socialist, and w%ounding g
large number, only nineteen OF whom are
known. The volley routed the mob, and
the dead and dying were removed fromthe
field with all possible dispatch. At three
O'Clock this morning seven OF the officers
were pronounced fatally wounded. From
physicians Who attended wounded rioters
it was learned that four would Ger.
stniniy die. The dead bodies of two
Anarchists were foynd n little after four
O'Clock this morning in an alley just north
of the scene Of the bloody riotsinSthe Hay.
market. b naMes Of the men are not,
known. They weretaken TO the morgue.
Ateight O'Clock alarges crowd had col.
Slected on Desplaines street. just north Of
Randolph, in a dimly lighted spot, near
which were many wagons and trucks.
Just after ten o'clock,,al5O police officers
under command Of InspectorsBonfield and
sCaptainAyW Ward arrived on the scene.
h police marched into the crowd,
sweeping il to the pavement and pressing
Ut before them. When the front column
reached the speakers wagon Inspector
Bottled ordered Haiti Captain Bon
field cried: I'm the name OF the State 81
Illinois / command this crowd to dis
perbe!n As the words left his mouth q
splatterinlg spark Of fire arched through
the mir fromsthe opening Of the alley and
over the speakers wagon. 1t was the
burning fuse Of a dynamite bomb.
EItSY was we'll aimed in it's deadly
mission. Il fell directly in the
middle Of the street and between the
frat two double columns OF police. The
Infant that it struck the ground il ex-
plSded withsa terrible, 8sullen roar. It did
Radically work well. Twenty-ninemangled
m4n fell grooming to the ground. The
Sb9inb broke the ranks OF the officers.
I'M an instant every mans revolver was
|jinA action, and every man shot to kill.
|agElAte mob plunged away into the darkness
with q yell Of rage and fear. 1t was almost
sA indescribable scramble for life. Scores
ia men were knocked down by those be-
hhd them and trampled upon like cattle
lima car, unable to rise. In q moment af-
thu yra1oasnn3%6 ~ sknnakot3x ~ II .os1S
bit within a. radius OF 100 feet 81 the
III where the bomb had fallen fully sixty
Ianntin lay wounded on the ground. The
lw4rk Of gathering the dead, dying and
Wounded was promptly begun.
was found that Officer Joseph
EaEan, of the Lake Street station. and
Ithee citizens, were dead, end that
Eforty-eight officers and seventeen citi-
SEets had been wounded by pieces 81 the
bomb and from pistol shots OF these,
nine officers and several citizens were taken
the hospital a aangerouslyssvoHaaed
land the physicians in attendance pro-
nounced q number Of the cases as impossi-
BILE Of recovery.
CHlcAco, May 5.-Ths southwestern GEO.
tions OF the city was yesterday afternoon
the scene of another riot. Toward noon q
crowd OF anarchists and their friends
assembled at the corner Of Eighteenth
and Morgan streets for the pur-
pose of holding a meeting 8ya
Detective Granger of the central sta
ton attempted to arrest one Of the disor-
derly men. The detective was Immediate
~ set upon by the bowling mob.
Before he could escape he wal
struck in the forehead by brick,
knocked senseless, and very badly injured.
Thenrevolvers were drawn and indiscrim.
mate shooting began, during which OH
GER John Strong of Hinman street sta-
ton was shot in the hand. Al mum
Der d the rioJous persons were also in
juredl The police charged the crowd and
made seven arrests, capturing the man
who threw the brick at Granger.
T~wo(hundred Bohemian sausage-makers
emploAedsin Armour's packing-house LEFT
the establishment last night and marched
to Ashland avenue, carrying red iags,
beating drums and shouting Down with
the police.'' They paraded about until
eleven 3'clock, when they reached the cor
ner OF Forty-eighth and I4aughlin streets,
where Officers Doran,i McManus and j. w.
4 Murphy OF the town Of Lake police force
were ktanding. The mob attacked Officers
Dorm and M Manus,,when the latter drew
a revolver and shot Matthew Blank, who
ram a few steps and then dropped dead.
His body was taken to thetown Of Lake.
MONDAYS RIOT.
CHICAGO, May 4.-Wrought up to q
henzy by the inlammatory harangues OF a
lot OF rabid Anarchists, a mob Of nearly
10000 men attackedst the employees of the
Mccormick Reaper Company as they came
from work yesterday afternoon. The men
were stoned and every window in the build.
ing wac demolished. When the no.
lice interiered they were pelted with
stones and firedNpon. Two hundred Off.
Gers were rushed to the scene as fast "a
ho.rses; could draw the patrol wagons, and
short, sharp battle between the police
md the rabbles followed. number 81 the
mob were shot, butSwere carried away 81
their friends, so that their names might
Sn1sot. be obtained. Adozen policemen were
Seart. The officers finally aucceeded ii
driving the men away, and quiet reicned
daring the remainder, Of the night.
RoUBL IN MILWAUKEE,.
s.sM IIIwAuKED. VIE, May 5..-A mob q &
Rcles and Bohemians on Tuesday vent to
9tiaes North Chicago rolling-mills, al Bay
ayieR, Wis. to drive out the men there en-,