The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-05-03
FRANCES FATAL RIOTS.
THE TERRIBLE CONFLICTS ON TIE
STREETS OF FOURMIES.

Police and Soldiers Given a Hand to
Hand Battle by the Mob - Three
Killed Outright by the Volley From
the soldiers-Many Legs Amputated.
PARIS, May 2.-Further particulars re-
ceived here in regard to the labor riot at
Fourmies yesterday show that early last
night mob composed OF about l 200 people,
carrying sticks and armed with revolvers,
surrounded the gendarmes, crying Down
with the masterIn "Death to the masterr'
1--WE want our brethren" This last
cry referred to the men arrested
early in the day for intimidating
men who had refused to go out on strike.
The mob then attacked the town hail. and
the gendarmes sent there to protect that
building fired their revolvers in the air in
order to frighten the rioters, but without
effect.
CHARGED BY THE TROOPS.
Troops, with fixed bayonets, then charged
the mob and drove it away from the I'M
mediate neighborhood of the town hall.
The crowd, however, after being driven
backward, retalieted by firing volleys of
bricks and pieces of paving stones at
the troops. frequently striking the
soldiers. After this proceeding the
subsequently reappeared with increased
numbers, and made an attack upon the
gendarmes. A fierce conflict took place
between the gendarmes and rioters in the
rear of the church, during which a number
of the former were placed hors du combat.
INFANTRY SUMMONED.
regiment of infantry was then sum-
moned to the scene. Renewed disorder and
an uproarious scene followed, the crowds
fighting hand to hand with the police and
soldiers. Finally, upon the rioters persisting
in their refusal to retire the soldiers fired,
killing three people outright and wound
ing a number of others. The sol-
diers, acting under the instructions
Of their ss@sofficers, and in order to
avoid the taking of life, fired low at the
legs Of the people, with the result that many
limbs OF rioters have been amputated as one
result of the labor disturbances. After this
severe lesson the mob fed and all was COM
paratively quiet during the night. To-day
there is feeling of suppressed excitement
throughout Fourmies.
TURBULENCE CONTINUES.
LONDON, May 2-From reports received
here it is learned that turbulence continues
in the mining districts of France and Bel
gium. The resentment for sentences of two
years Imprisonment imposed on the anar-
chist leaders in the riots which took place
in Charleville and st. Quentinns, in
France, led to renewed scenes
of disorder in those places to-
day, while in Seraings and Liege,
In Belgium, determined attempts were
made by the strikers to prevent any of the
men who refused to join their ranks from
working. When non-strikers attempted to
commence work they were attacked by the
strikers with stones and other missiles. The
gendarmes found that all their efforts to
repress the disturbance were useless,
and they were finally compelled to
invoke the aid of the military. At the
Harloz colliery in st. Nicholas, where the
soldiers had been ordered out to preserve
the peace, rife fire failed to awe the riot
era, although several of them fell wounded.
The strikers very stubbornly resisted the
military, and only dispersed in the face of a
cavalry charge. About thirty of the rioters
were arrested.
A CLASH IN HUNGARY.
During the riot on Friday at Bekes, in
Hungary, number of enraged peasants
made a savage attack on the chief magis-
trate of the place for prohibiting the peo-
pie from holding Mayday demonstrations.
The magistrate was trampled aud kicked.
Here again the military were called
upon and they drove the rioters away,
ca aptured twenty and bayoneted two. At
fairs assumed such dangerous shape that
the authorities were compelled to declare
the place in a state of siege. All the shops
have been closed, and the latest reports say
that the people are still wildly excited.