Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-05-05
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Immediately after the fret explosion,
the officers, who were lett standing, Dire "
their revolvers and fired round alter round
into the mob. Large numbers OF these
tell, and as they dropped were imme;
diately carried to the rear aud
into many dark alley ways by
their friends. The police at the Des-
PLANES street station state that fully
fifty are wounded. rhe drug stores In
the vicinity are crowded with people who
were hurt, and doctors nave heen tele-
phoned to in all directions. Before the
firing had ceased, neighboring police
! stations were turned into Temporary hos
pitfalls.
THgwOUNDED POLICEMEN.
At II O'Clock twenty policemen lay on
The floor of the Des PLANES street station
house, all disabled, and probably half
that mum Der seriously. Others were re-
ported to be still lying in the apen square,
either dead or badly wounded. The
members of the First regiment who had
been under arms the greater portion OF the
afternoon were dsbanded abuut0 o'clock,
ana sent to their homes. They had been
called together by Col. Knox on his own
responsibility.
At the hour mentioned survey OF the
situation indicated nothing serious
enough to warrant keeping the men any
DRILL ROOM RAIDED.
Late this afternoon the police raided a
hall in the same building occupied by the
Lumber Exchange, and captured there
some 100 muskets, which they took to the
police station. The hall had been Occu-
pied as drill room by a com"
pany Of zouAves, which was chiefly
made up OF foreigners. IL is
stated that the few Americans in the
organization withdrew yesterday on ac-
count Of the socialistlc views of the
others, and IL is suppose that the latter
contemplated some movement which
came to the knowledge OF the police and
induced them TO make the raid. No in
formation concerning the seizure can be
obtained at police headquarters, and
nothing is positively known beyond the
fact that the arms were seized.
ORDERED TO DIsPERsE.
Inspector Bon6eld says after Par
sons had concluded his speech Sam Field
ing, another notorious socialist, mount
ed wagon and began to address the
crowd. His address was OF the most in
iammatory description. He called on the
men to arm themselves, and to assert their
rights. he finally became so violont that
word was sent 20 the station, which was
only block distant, aud Inspector Bon
| field, at the head of 1875 men, marched 20
the place where the meeting was In pro-
gress. Bonfield called upon the
| crowd to dispense, and Fielding
shouted out 60 them from the wagon, 40
| arms" The officer once more called on
them 20 dispense, when suddenly from be-
hind the wagon, which was but fifteen
feet from the front rank of the police,
bombs were thrown To between the sec
ond and the third ranks Of men with the
ELECT as WAS Already atatqd
DISTRESSING SCENES.
On the table in the station house where
the wounded policemen are, one poor fell
low lies stretched with terrible bullet
wounds in bis breast. A few feet distant
a man with tattered clothes and n NOR
tai wound. IN his side is lying insensi-
bic on a cot. Around on
chairs with their legs bandaged
up and resting on supports of different
kinds are some fifteen or twenty OF the
| officers who were wounded by the bombs.
Not groan or complaint Is heard from
any OF them. An officer who was found
! lying In a doorway. where he had been
carried or where he had dragged him self,
has just been brought in frightiully
wounded. There are some twenty Of the
socialists in cells In the basement. Nearly
all OF them are wounded. One OF them,
a young fellow Of about 20. is dead.
| About 100 men employed in the Union
| Steel COmpany's works at Bridgeport as
laborers, yesterday demanded ten hours
| pay for eight hours work, as II is periecly
| impossible for the foundry 10 work only
eight hours the demand was refused. But
the manager offered to raise the pay OF the
men from 81 20 10 81 40 for ten hours
| This offer was refused aud the men at
once walked out of the works.
The North Side rolling mills shut down
| yesterday for an indefinite period. and
about ], 600 men are out OF employment
The superintendent said that IN ali prob
ability the mills would not start up again
until the labor troubles were at an end
The company could not give ten hours
pay for eight hours work, and To shut
down was the only course OMEN