The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-02-10
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slbllity for the action Of the mob yester
: day, He predicts that trouble OF very
serious proportions will ensue II the dis
trsss existing among working people Is
not soon relieved. The men will mol
; starve forever, he says, and il the author
tiles refuse TO help them they must not
s be suTpTiRsdif force IL resorted to 10 procure
bread. Roqghs, are taking advantage OF
the fog TO assemble In various parts OF tho
West End, They are bold and impulent,
One gang attempted to stop the carriages
OF members OF the nobility who were on
their way TO 81, James Palace TO attend
levee given by the Prince OF Wales. A
force OF police was ut hand, however, who
drove back the crowd and dtspeTsed them,
Alarm Is spreading to all parts OF the city.
BY three O'Clock the mob at Trafalgar
square was estimated to be 10000 strong.
The majority Of this great throug is com
posed Of loafers and roughs OF the worst
class, Large numbers OF policemen are
present, but their efforts to control the
turbulence OF the mob have 90 far proved
unavailiug, They have been unable to
clear the streets and traffic Ia for the time
being brought TO q standstill The spirit
Of the mob to-day Is distinctly aggressive.
Every carriage which happens TO come
within reach OF the rioters ia at once sur
rounded, and its occupants hooted, hissed
and insulted, During tue early part OF
tho afternoon Q gorgeous equipage was
driven near the mob. Slula one said
the turnout was the Lord Atayors
and the rioters at once made rush ier II,
seemingly determined TO tear the vehicle
70 pieces and stamp It's occupants to death,
The police, however, by vigorous charge
rescued the equipage and It's occupants
and got them 10 place Of safety, The
mob at present is simply a tremendous
mass oil undireCtel human saYages
Nothing, 1t would seem, but the want ol
some popular leader prevents the mob
from exRrtlng It's strength in soms organ.
lied movement which might bring about
the most disastrous results,
THE MOL CHARGED,
During the afternoon the police charged
the mob twice in full force, for the pur'
pose Of breaking 1t up, and driving the
fragments from Trafalgar Square.
But both efforts were absolutely futile,
The mob would yield little at One point
Of attack, but bulge out in some other dl. |
rectlon 80 the police couldn't surround II |
or break It, Each failure OF the police |
was greeted by tho vast assemblagO with
cheers and yells, The rioters grew en- |
ragged at the frequent repetition Of police |
hostility, Thousands Of men poured down |
70 the scene, and all the pavements In the |
vicinity Of Trafalgar Square We're lined
with excited men, the rows on either side |
ii tho streets being nowhere less than six |
men deep.
The increasing gravity Of the situation |
inally alarmed the authorities aud they
put forth all their energies to suppress tht |
lnciplGnt riot.
Tho police force on duty at Trafalgar
square was enormously increased and pre- |
pared for well.direCted and exhaustiveas
Iault, This, alIera long struggle, resultet
IN pushing The mob Into the side street, |
and thussp splIttingitup. The police follow
cd up their work and drove each fragment
jf the broken mob until its elements wert
driven in the alley.ways ind by-wayS o
the town. Every preCauLlon was taken to |
prevent reassemblags OF any mob |
Many OF the rioters have been arrested |
Some Of these have been ilned and dis |
charged. Others have bsen remanded iol |
trial, while q number have been sentenced
10 imprisonment for VariolS terms, rang.
ing from one to six months.
THE SOCIALISTS PLEA.
Burns, Champion, Hindmau and VII
tlams, the four Socialists who inspired
Yesterdays riot, called this afternoon
upon Mr.. Joseph Chamberlain, Presideni
Of the Local Government Board at
bis Office. Mr.. Chamberlain de.
clined to receive them personally,
but said he was willing to give |
attention 10 anything they might have to
say provided they placed II In writing |
Burns and his colleagues thereupon draft.
I'd atBtatement Of their wishes. They
said they had called to obtain from Mr..
Chamberlain q declaration OF the Govern.
ment's intention with regard TO procuring
work for the several hundred thousand |
men unemployed, who were at present
starving In London aud elsewhere In ling. |
land.
Mr.. Chamberlain replied In writing that
he did not think that any Of the remedies
proposed by the Social Democratic Fedora.
ton would prove elieCtual to relieve the
prevalent want and misery among the un.
employed in England. He was, on thll
account unable TO support the proposed |
measure. At the game time he felt the
urgent necessity Of having something done
and he was now having an inquiry made
for the purpose Of ascertaining the exact |
extent and character OF the distress.
Incidents of Mondays Outbreak.
LONDON, Feb. 9.-Kmong the incidents
Of the progress Of the mob from Trafalgar
souare toward Hvde Park Yesterday. was