St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-10
Disciples of Disorder Attack
a Spanish Town Intent
on Plllage.
Troops and Police Warned in
Time to Give Them a Hot
Welcome.
Three Killed and a Score
Wounded More or Less
Seriously.
Summary Court Martial and
Rigorous Punishment
Ordered.

MADRID, Jan. 9.-Last night band
of anarchists from the country sur
rounding Here's made an attack on that
place, intending to piilage the town.
The gendarmes. however, had got wind
OF the affair, and when the anarchists
reached Here's they were surprised to
find strong force awaiting for them.
The anarchists were armed with fowl
Zig pieces, and, though their plan of
pillage was frustrated, they determined
to punish the police for thwarting their
designs.
They made desperate attack on the
guardians of the town, and stubborn
fight resulted. The gendarmes held
their ground, and finally charged upon
and repulsed the enemy. The latter
returned. however. and the firing was
continued until early this morning.
The military authorities today took
hand in the affair. They dispatched a
force of cavalry in pursuit OF the an
archists, who in some way became cog
INFANT of the intention of the military
to attack them and thereupon fed pre-
cipitately. The cavalry, however, pur-
sued them and succeeded in capturing
majority of them. The prisoners will
not be given the benefit of civil trial.
They will be arraigned before a court
martial, and their Punishment VIII fol-
low swift upon cOnvic ion.
Bold to Madness.
The attack made by the anarchists
was commenced just as the people were
leaving the theaters, and was directed
principally towards that quarter of the
city in which the prison is situated. The
intention OF the anarchists was to lib
crate the prisoners confined in the in
stitution. The troops stationed at the
prison made sortie, however, and re-
pulsed the rioters, while the gendarmeS
were routing number of scattered
bands which were creating disturb
anceS in other parts OF the city.
After stubborn resistance by the an
archiStS three of their number were
killed and twenty were more or less Sc
riously wounded. An innocent specta-
tor was killed during the fight by an an
archist armed with Scythe. This riot
er, with thirty of his companions. was
placed under arrest, and quiet was final
ly restored.
The cabinet council today discussed
the affair and ordered the authorities to
deal with the rioters with the utmost
rigor. The audacity displayed by the
anarchists in attacking a city where
battalion of infantry and a regiment of
cavalry are Quartered is regarded as
alarming and ineXplicable. Detach-
ments of cavalry are in hot pursuit of
the fugitive anarchists, who are divided
into two bands, one fleeing in the direc-
ton of Lebrijo and the other toward
ARGOS. La Epoca, in speaking of the
affair at Here's, says that the rioters
made an attack simultaneously on the
infantry barracks and the town hall.
The paper also says that the rioters
were repulsed without single soldier
being wounded.
FOrestalIeG the Police.
A later dispatch from Here's states
that the attack on the town by the an
archiSt band was precipitated by the
knowledge having leaked out that the
authorities had, ON the day previous.
made all preparations for descent on
the anarchist hauntS for the purpose of
arreSting some sixty of the most noted
of them. This step by the authorities
had been decided upon because of the
boldness displayed of late by some of
the leaders and because of the holding
of numerous meetings recently at which
violent and inCendiary language had
been used.
One conflict between the military and
the mob lasted two hours. After plum
dering the town, the mob attempted to
destroy it by means of dynamite and
petroleum, bat they were baffied by the
military.