The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-13

Twelfth street patrol wagons, hlled with
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 Slavonic boards and wooden swords
huddled behind barricades no more substan-
tial than a picket fence; the Others darted
down Eighteenth street to Center avenue
near which is a sort of a rendezvous for the
thousands of foreign. strikers in the neigh
borhood. Here the mob made a desperate
stand.
Officer Small, Of the Human street sta
ton, 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
about the officer and his struggling prisoner
and then fell upon the former with stones
and clubs. Officer Small, to defend him
self, fired several shots into the crowd, but
without effect. The shooting then became
hot and indiscriminate. Smal's comrades
ran to his assistance, but before he was
rescued from his p~erilous position he was
shot through the hand. His prisoner es-
capped.
Reports of exploding cartridges came from
every quarter IN the air was filled with
smoke. kill the hirelings," bawled a
man with red whiskers, as he pointed an
ancient revolver at Officer Small. Before
he could pull the trigger 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 a cocoa
-,,k xr,h;1,aI ~aef hse ohaaIx o~I N hrfolr hit
him in the forehead. The detective fell to
the ground with a stream of blood pouring
from a jagged wound.
The remainder of the officers becoming
exasperated at the resistance displayed by
the rapidly growing mob, fired a score of
shots into the surging, bowling mass. One
man was seen to drop, but his comrades
picked him up and hurried through a neigh
boring alley. The sight of Anarchist blood
seemed to fill the rioters with fear, for as
soon as they learned that one of their num-
Der had been shot they fled precipitate-
ly. The officers then charged upon them
and captured seven of the leaders. They
were taken to the Twelfth street and Hin
man street stations. Rain fell necessarily
during the fight.
around three barrels and boxes on Des-
PLANES street, between Randolph and Lake,
at eight o'clock last evening. August
Spies, the editor of the Arbeiter Zeittng,
the Anarchist organ In this city, stood upon
one of the barrels. He made a brief speech
to the crowd and then introduced A. Il.
Parsons, one of the pronounced leaders of
the movement. The latter told his hearers
that instead of getting ten hours pay for
eight hours work statistics proved that
workingmen to-day were only getting two
hours pay for ten hours work, and If they
worked eight hours at the same wages they
would only be getting three hours pay
for eight hours work. He warned his
audience that the time wOuld come when
the brutal oppression of the capitalists
would drive everyone save themselves into
the ranks of Socialism. There was mort
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
liz fraud and maintained by force, and he
counseled 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 incite to
bloodshed, but if blood were spilled
the capitalists would be responsible for
petual panic in the homes of
the poor by their ever increasing and
grinding exactions. In a little while, the
speaker said, the American capitalist will
reduce the American sovereign, the freeman
and voter, to a condition lower h that OF
the Chinamar. In order to prevent this he
advised the proletariat to be prepared for all
emergencies. The battery was full OF
militia to shoot w~orkingmen down.
They had gatling guns and munitions
for which %singularly enough the people
paid. They would be turned upon them to-
morrow because whenever the laborer makes
a prayer or petition to the capitalist fol
equity, the capitalist appealed to the mill
tary. The people also paid for the police
who shot them down at the order of the
capitalists. There was revolution organized
by a powerful association of a few against
the many. The Anarchist closed his re-
marks by advising the working people to be
prepared for all emergencies.
Samuel Fielden, another Anarchist, fol-
lowed in a similar incendiary tone. While
| FieldeD was talking a dark cloud rolled gu
| of the northern horizon. 1t swept to zenith
and had the appearance of a cyclone. Tht
great crowd of Socialists fearing that a tor
nado was approaching began to seek shelter
The Anarchist leaders urged the men to ad
journ to Zepst Hall which is only abou
half a block away. The ominous cloud
udu uOW pdoOCu oNCl llO SloWus II q
audience was encouraged to remain By
Fielden who said he would detain them but
a few moments as it was getting late an(
threatening rain.
AS the Anarchist concluded a body of mer
were dimly seen approaching in measured
tread. 1t appeared like a phalanx of mason'
returning from a private assembly or drill
The stiffness of their approach was ominou'
and appalling. The 5000 Anarchists crept
closer to the barrels. Then a hundred star!
aud a thousand brass buttons flashed i,
horizontal and perpendicular lines at tn
street intersection. They were under com
mand of Lieutenant Ward, who immedi
ately proceeded to read the riot ac
to the Anarchists. He had hard.
| concluded when some one outside of tn
crowd threw a bomb in close proximity t.
the policemen. A terrific explosion followe,
and, as if by a ~preconcerted arrangement
the mob closed in on the police with knives
pistols and firearms of all descriptions
The police had no alternative but to NOV
them down. The scene that followed cal
not be described. Blood flowed as freely a
water and men dropped on every hand. TIL
latest reports state that three policemen
have since died from their injuries and prob
ably a dozen of the mob. Patrol and am
bulance wagons have been busy picking u
dying ana WOunQeu men anu IdklnS Illon
to hospitals.
At the present writing martial law pre-
walls in the vicinity of the conflict and it i
worth a mans life to appear out of doors
Any one caught OF the street is commando
to throw up his hands and an immediat
search of the person is made to see if he ha
concealed about him any dynamite or ex
plOsive.
At 1870 a. n. it was impossible to obtail
a list of the casualties. Officers Henson
O'Day, Mccarthy and Deagon, and
striker, a Bohemian, whose name could no
be learned, are known to be dead. A tele
phone report from the hospital where tn
injured are being conveyed, says that n
strikers brought there have as yet died al
though a number lie in a precarious condi
ton.
Very little freight was handled by tn
railroads yesterday. The Chicago. Burling
ton & Quincy received what little freigt
was offered and their men were not me
Tested. A visit of the striking freight hand
lers to the st. Paul depot resulted in all Q
the men employed there, some $50, quittin
wD,ly A. tho harcoc Of tho T oka Shnr