St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-11
DEVILS DRAUGHT
Chicago Anarchists Drink Deep of
a Deadly Drug at Rosen-
fields Store.
They Partake of a Virulent Poison
Known as Wine Of Col
ehioum.
Under the Belief That They Were
Enjoying Cup Of Sherry
Wine.
Four Dead and -Four Others Dying With
No Hope of Saving Their
Lives.
The Back of tia Strikes Broken in Various
Places by Men Returning
to Work.
Railroads and Other Institutions Resume,
and the Wheels of Commerce
Again Revolve.
Four Dead and Four Others Dying With
No Hope of Saving Their
Lives.
Horrible Punishment.

CHICAGO, May 10.-The Times to-mor-
row morning will contain a sensational ar
ticle, which gives phase of the anarchists
work of last week, which SO far has es-
capped general notice, and shows the horri-
BILE punishment which was brought
upon portion of the mob by
their own acts. 4 short time
after the mob of Infatuated anarchists had
attacked with stones and bludgeonS the
drug store of Samuel Rosenfield, at the cor
ner of West Eighteenth street and Center
avenue, completely demolishing everything
in the place, it began to be circulated
about on the street corners, and the
drinking dens of the neighborhood that
many of the participants in the demolition
OF the store were either dead or dying from
the effects of the poisonous liquids that
they had drank in the belief that the stuff
was whisky or other alcoholic liquors. The
rumor was at first regarded as a mere
canard, arising from the fact that there was
good deal of
SPIRITUOUS LIQUOR
in the drug store, and the mob captured it,
either drinking it on the spot or carrying it
away, and it was thought probable that in
the mad rush for the whisky and cigars
the ignorant rioters also drank every
thing that resembled Wine or whisky.
To hunt down the origin of the ghas thy
rumOr and to verify if possible the story
that death had ended the wild orgies of
the drinkers of the stuff, was made the
object OF a reporters quest to-day.
The success of the Investigation and
the horrible truth of the rumors are
shown to be true. A well-known physician
gave the reporter information which shows
that at least score of the rioters had been
poisoned by drinking the contents of the
bottles in the wrecked drug store. 1.-The stuff
taken was mostly wine of cOlchicum, which
greatly resembles sherry wine and has a
strong smell of alcoholic" he said. 1T is
a yirulent poison, and is almost certain
death if taken into the stomach in any
quantity of over teaSpoonful. The patient
dies in agony, his whole form writhing and
his muscles drawn up in knots over his
arms, legs and neck"
How many of such cases have you
treated. doctor?"
-Four, and L have now in my care three
who are suffering from an overdose of
tincture of paregoric, no doubt taken at the
same time. l will give you the names
of the
FOUR COLCHIUM VICTIMS
for all of them died, and also of four 9TH
erS whom l know of, but were attended by
another physician: Franz Steminski,
! Joseph HudeX. a. Nowak. Peter Sur
| tuck, Joseph Monsenik, Carl Wilthelz.
Jake Zahaman, Aven Dejc. The follow
ing are sick and will probably die: Her
man Hubrichik, Anton Ritto, Frank Peta-
! laski, Hubt Maaz.
Four funerals occurred at the church of st.
/ Procopius on West Eighteenth street, yes
| terday, and small cortege was seen to
emerge from an alley between Airport ave-
nue. and Thorpe street, on West Seven
/ teenth street, and go north. The death
! of taese people may seem problematical in
view of the fact that only four permits
1 have been issued to bury, but it is a we'll
known fact that in the riots of 1877. when
a large number were wounded in the Halsted
street viaduct fight that many who died
never had Christian burial in a cemetery,
but were buried in back yards or out on the
prairie like dogs.