Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1886-05-13
Grant Gnnutg 8erald,
The Chicago and Milwaukee Riots.


The bloodiest episode of the riots in
Chicago and Milwaukee occurred in the
former city Tuesday night, last
week, a brief mention of it being given
in last weeks HERALD. At eight o'clock
large crowd had collected on Desp-
LANES Street, just north of Randolph, in
| dimly lighted spot, near which were
many wagons and trucks. just after
ten O'Clock, $50 police officers under
command of Inspector Bonfeld and
Captain Ward arrived on the scene.
The police marched into the crowd,
sweeping it to the pavement and press
ing it before them. When the front
column reached the speakers wagon In
spector Bonfield ordered HALT" Cap
tain Bonfeld cried: .'In the name of the
State of Illinois ] command this crowd
to disperser' As the words left his
mouth spluttering spark of fire arched
through the air from the opening of the
alley and over the speakers wagon. 1t
was the burning fuse of a dynamite
bomb. 1t was well aimed in its deadly
mission. 1t fell directly in the middle of
the street and between the first two
double columns of police. The instant
that it struck the ground it exploded with
a terrible, sullen roar. 1t did its deadly
work well. Twenty-Five mangled men
fell grooming to the ground. The bomb
broke the ranks of the officers In an
instant every mans revolver was in ac-
ton, and every man shot to kill. The
The mob plunged away into the dark
ness with yell of rage and fear. 1t
was almost an indescribable scramble
for life. Scores of men were Knocked
down by those behind them and tramp
led upon like cattle in car, unable to
rise. In a moment after the explosion
the streets were cleared, but within a
radius of 100 feet of the spot where the
bomb had fallen fully sixty men lay
wounded on the ground. The work of
gathering the dead, dying and wounded
was promptly begun.
Five of the policemen have died of the
wounds received.
The two Spieses, Schwab and Fielden,
were arrested as accomplices in the
murder of the police. The former were
editors of the Arbeiter Zeitung, Ger
man anarchist paper, and the last is an
Englishman who has been speaker at
the anarchist meetings. He was severely
wounded, it is thought by his own pistol
The whole force of printers on the ar
better Zeiturg was arrested and thus the
paper was practically suppressed. Par
sons, another anarchist leader, escaped
and has since kept his whereabouts CON
cealed.
In Milwaukee. at six o'clock last
Wednesday morning, crowd of rioters
met at St. Stanislaus church They ex-
pressed the intention of going down to
Ray View to ''clean OUT the militia.
TIE leaders at the head of the process
sior carried red flags. The pro-
cession was followed by great num-
Der of men, women, and children, the
latter on their way to school. Six mill
tary companies were marched out of
the grounds and stationed in front of
Allis's works, and as the crowd APP
preached, paying no attention to the
orders to halt, the dread word "Firer'
was given and volley of bullets was
poured into the crowd. The rioters
beat a hasty retreat. Five lives were
sacrificed and several persons wounded.
One of the killed was school boy,
who had his books under his arm
when he fell While trouble was going
on at Bay View large crowd of anarch-
lists and trikers assembled at Milwau-
kee Garden, West Side, and were pre-
pairing to carry out a program of riot
and destruction. A platoon of sixty
policeman and three infantry companies
were dispatched there and cleared the
premises.
In Milwaukee Paul Grottkau, John
Prutzman, and several other of the an
archist leaders were arrested and held to
trial for melting riot.
There have been no futher riotous out
breaks in Chicago and-Milwaukee since
those narrated above.