Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-05-05


responsibility. At the hour mentioned
a survey Of the situation indicated no.
thing serious enough to warrant keep
ing the men any longer under arms.
Late this afternoon the police raided
. ball in the Same building occupied by
the Lumber Exchange and captured
some hundred muskets, which they
took to the police-station. 1t seems
the hall had been occupied as drill
room by q company Of Zouayes, which
was chiefly made up Of foreigners. 1t
is stated that the few Americans in the
organization withdrew yesterday on
account Of the Socialistic views Of the
others, and it is supposed that the lat
ter contemplated some movement which
came to the knowledge Of the police,
and induced them to make the raid. No
information concerning the seizure can
be obtained at police headquarters, and
nothing is positively known beyond the
| fact that the arms were seized.
A POLICE INSPECTORS STATEMENT.
Inspector Bonfeld has just been seen
ut Desplaines-street station, and says
concerning to-night's trouble In Old
bsy-market, after Parsons had con-
cluded his speech, Sam Fielding,
another notorious Socialist, mounted
wagon ID began TO address the crowd.
His address was Of the most infamma-
tory description. lie called on the men
to arm themselves and to assert their
rights. lie finally became so violent that
word was sent TO the station, which was
only block distant, and Inspector
Bonfield, at the head Of l25 men,
marched to the place where the meet
irg was in progress. BOndeld called
upon the crowd to dispense, and Field
ing shouted out TO them from
the wagon, To arms " The Of
ficer once more called on them
to disperse, when suddenly, from
behind wagon which was but
fifteen feet from the front rank Of po-
lice, bombs were thrown in between
the second and third ranks Of the men,
with effect as already stated. In the
station-house where the wounded po-
lcemen are one poor fellow lies
stretched on table, with terrible bull
| let wounds in his breast. A few
| feet distant man with tattered
clothes and mortal wound in his
side is lying insensible on cot.
Around in chairs, with their legs band
sged up and resting on supports Of
| different kinds, are some fifteen or TWEEN
ty Of the officers who were wounded by
the bombs. Not groan or complaint
is heard from any Of them. The officer
who was found lying in doorway
where he had been carried or
where be had dragged himself, has just
been brought in frigbtfully wounded.
There are some twenty of the Socialists
in the cells in the basement. Nearly
all Of them are wounded, and one OF
them, young fellow Of about twenty,
is dead.
THE SITUATION AT M'CORMICK's.
CHICAGO. May 4.-The Mccormick
reaper-works opened as usual this
morning, fully one half Of the working
men returning to the factory despite the
intimidation and bloodshed Of yesterday
afternoon. A special force Of police was
on duty to protect the men on their way
to work, but their services apparently
were not required, as the Anarchists
and their followers Of the day preceding
were not to be seen. Threatening in
dications appeared in many quarters of
the city this morning. A crowd OF Bohe-
mians, Poles, and Germans began to as
semble on the prairie in the southwest
ern portion Of the city this morning
where the incendiary hsrangues o!
yesterday we're uttered which pro-
voked a riot later on, but the
police raided and effectually scattered |
them, without making any arrests, how
ever. These men then proceeded
southeast, forming a column 5000 or
1900 strong. They directed their
march toward large glue-factory ne ar
the crossing of the river at Thirty-fifth
street, with the intention of closing
down the works. A strong force Of
police arrived and arrested nine Of the |
ringleaders and oyerawed the crowd, |
which moved off without making any |
attempt to rescue their fellows. The
size of the crowd was such that the
Chief Of Police directed a reinforcement
of the officers on duty in that district.
The knowledge that such a large gath
ering was being kept together and
apparently urged by leaders to acts of
violence, has caused more thorough |
preparations TO be taken to guard
against troubles.
The commanders of several State
regiments have largely reinforced the
guards at the armories without specific
orders, but simply as precautionary
measure.
A crowd of strikers attempted an
assault on the Milwaukee and st. Pau
shops, at Western avenue, this forenoon,
but were driven from the scene by
police.
AN INCENDIARY ARTICLE.
CHICAGO, May 4.-The Arbeiter
Ze'tung, the German paper edited by
Speis the Socialist, who was one of the
speakers who melted Yesterdays riot
at McCormick's, says: Working
men, the hated police yesterday MUIR
dered four of your brothers and wound
ed perhaps twenty-five more at McCor-
mick's factory. Had your brothers,
who had nothing but stones to defend
themselves with, been armed with good
weapons and few dynamite bombs
none Of the murderers would have es-
capped their well-deserved fate.
"As it was, only four of them (po-
licemen) were wounded. That is sad.
Yesterdays massacre occurred that
10000 strikers in this city might be
filled WITH fear and terror and disatis-
fled and rebellious laborers might be
driven back under the yoke Of slavery.
Will this end be accomplished Has
not a miscalculation been made? The
next few days will answer this ques-
ton. We will not speculate on the
course of events"
The paper then goes on to give de-
tailed report Of the troubles. and puts
The responsibility entirely on the police.