The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-05-13

Of holding from $1,000 to $1,000 men.
Touching the square at one corner is Hal
stead street, the outlet to the lumber
yards, packing houees and to the factories
such as McCormick's. In close proximity
to the opposite of the hay market is Mil
waukee avenue, leading through wide
spreading district closely populated with
Germans and Poles. Surrounding the
square on every hand are 10 cent lodging
houses, cheap saloons and many OF the low
est dives in the city. twas P. N. before
the he,o meeting began. The speakers were
cendiary PAPER called the " Ar
Sam Fielding. The police were held in a re-.
serve at short distance to dispense the
meeting It it became violent. Spies and
speeches when Fielding took the stand and
spoke still more violently than the others,
urging the killing of property owners, the
destruction of the police and the overturn-
ing OF all authority. AS the crowd began
to grow riotous the police numbering $50 to
At first the socialists fell back, but this was
only momentary. The meeting had begun
with about 1000 present but not more
than one-half of that number remained
when the police, ordered the meeting
| w AAoP$AoS' 40 VIC pO4AC0 AOu0"cO SAo
! order to disperse, two or three bombs were
suddenly thrown into their ranks, and they
exploded with great force, and in a mo-
| ment twenty or thirty officers lay dying or
wounded on the ground. The suddenness
and unexpected character of the deadly at
but those uniD jured soon rallied and draw
! ing their pistols fired Unfortunately upon
| tha crowd. The mob seemed to be we'll
armed and returned the fire, woundiDg a
good many many more of the policemen. Still
was to get away and in few minutes
the police held undisputed possession
ct the square. At II O'Clock, twenty police
men lay on the floor of the Desplaines
station, all disabled, aud probably half
reported to be still lying in the open
square, either dead or badly wounded. A
telegram sent out at that hour on the
night of the 4th, thus described the scene
| On table in the station house, where
the wounded policemen are, one poor
fellow lies stretched on a table with ter
rible bullet wounds in his breast A few
feet distant a man with battered clothes
and mortal wound in his side is lying in
sensible on cot, Around the room in
cnsrs with their legs 6andoged and
some fifteen or twenty Of the officers who
were wounded by the bombs. Not groan
or complaint is heard from any of
them. Another officer who was found ly-
ing in doorway where he had been car
Just been brought in frightfully wounded.
| There are some twenty of the Socialists in
the cells in the basement. Nearly all of
them are wounded and one of them, a
young fellow Of about 20, is dead.
capitulation:
One socialist dead, two officers dead {;
four other officers who may not survive
and thirty police who have wounds, many
of most serious character. In addition
members of the socialist crowd of citizens
of the vicinity were shot or otherwise
wounded A great number of these were
quickly taken to different hospitals and /,
priv ate houses, so that it may be days be-
fore the full extent of the horrors can be
The 5th inst. in Chicago was day of a
good deal of excitement but no very serious
disturbance took place. The indignation
against the bomb throwing socialists was
Intent 81 ana M o9tsPokeg1: August Spies
Schwab associate editor and Sam Fielding
were arrested and locked up without trial.
Parsons: the third orator on the night Of
the bomb throwing, is in hiding. His
negro wife was arrested but would not de-
clare his Whereabouts. Schwab is suspect
ed of being the man who threw the deadly
bomb. All the prisoners will be held on
the charge of murder.
The coroners jury in Chicago found
August Spies, Chas. Spies, NJ. Schwab, and
Sam Fielden guilty of melting the killing
of the police and they are all held to the
grand jury without bail. There is a strong
demand for their speedy trial and execu
| ton.
Twenty-eight thousand dollars has been
subscribed in Chicago for the families of
the killed and wounded policemen.
Two more Socialistic organs have been
captured by the police in Chicago and the
editors locked up.