Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-05-13
BLOODY WORK.
9she Chicago Anarchists Begin to
Fulfil Their Threats,
And Use Dynamite With Fearful Effect
Upon Squad of Police--Terrible Reta-
aation-Scenes Among theWound-
ed and Dying Policemen

Gu anu EOhCcheb
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 were short,
sharp and decisive. In the afternoon, in
a rain storm, about seven hundred strik-
ers marched upon the paint works of
Cary. Ogden G Parker, 276 to 2S4 West
Eighteenth street. The four special po-
licemen on duty were peIted with stones
and bricks, and soon fed for their lives
One of them stumbled and fell, and while
lying on the ground fired into the APP
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 filled with
officers ratified down the street.
When the blue vehicles neared the
rioters, the officers took aim over each
others shoulders and fired vOlley after
volley over the strikers heads. The
effect was amusing. Men with their
pockets filled with stones, and men with
Slavonc boards and wooden swords hud-
died behind barbados no more sub.
stantial than picket fence; others
darted down Eighteenth street to Center
avenue, near which is sort of rem
devious for the thousands of foreign
strikers in the neighborhood. Here the
mob made desperate stand. Officer
Small, of the Hinman Street station,
leaped 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-
inate. Small's comrades 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,"
odNleu Il I1dn Will Ieu NulSheIS, dS uC
pointed an ancient revolver at Officer
ger Detective Michael Granger struck
his hand and the weapon fell to the
ground. The mob then pounced upon
Granger and dragged him into the muddy
street. A rock as large as cocoanut
whizZed past his cheek and a brick hit
him in the forehead. The detective fell
to the ground with a stream of blood
pouring from a jagged wound. The re-
mainder of the officers becoming exasper-
ated at the resistance displayed by the
rapidly growing mob, fired a score of
shots into the sursing, bowling mass.
One man was seen to drop, but his
picked him up, and hurried
through a 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 precipitateiy.
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
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 crept out
of their dcns 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 prowling about the streets.
At half-past seven O'Clock two OF the |
scabs employed at the Mccormick reaper |
works had the temerity to walk cast on |
street to Center avenue. Two |
of the providing Anarchists recognized |
them. The scabs did not know this. !
When the scabs reached the corner the |
two Anarchists bounced on them and |
threw them to the ground. Other An |
archists then came up and began to beat |
the PROSTATE men with clubs. The |
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 shower of stones. |
A shot was fired by one of the Anarchists, |
and then a cobblc-stone struck the officer |
in the breast, telling him to the ground. |
He regained his feet, however, and turned |
i'm 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 boys 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 |
of the Arbiter Zeitung, the Anarchist Or
gan i'm this city, stood on one of 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
his hearers to arm themselves
and be prepared to meet force by force,
for they were in the majority and could
not but triumph. He did not wish to in
cite to bloodshed, but If blood were
spilled the capitalists would be response
BILE for it, for they kept up the perpetual
panic i'm the homes of the poor by their
ever-increasing and grinding exactions.
In little while, he said, the American
capitalist will reduce the American
the freeman and voters to a