Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-02-26
A NIGHT OF RIOTING
Berlin's MObs Continue Their
Desperate Fighting.
BEER AND BREAD SHOPS SACKED
They Take by Violence the Food They Are
Not Permitted to Earn.

Determined Fights OF Some Individual
Members of the NrOb-A Carpenter with
a Hammer Brings Down More Than One
of the Police, While n Blacksmith with
One Blow of His Fist Nearly Kills One of
His AssaIlants-BOth Had to be Shot
Before They Would Surrender-One
Section Urged on to Violent Acts by a
wOmau-The City Comparatively Quiet
This Morning.
BERLIN, Feb. 26.-Ten thousand of the
hungry and oppressed of this city
marched yesterday to the gates of the
Emperor's Castle and demanded justice.
Singing the Marseillaise with a mighty
roar, they swept up the broad avenue of
Inter den Linden, gathered renewed in
SEPARATION at the statue of the great Fred
erick and, fighting hand to hand with the
police, they cried aloud for the Emperor,
who, pale and alarmed, looked down
upon them from q window Of the Alte
Schloss.
With a wave of the hand he could
have Gained the mob, but, Indifferent to
their cries, he permitted the police,
strongly REINFORCED, to drive his subjects
back, bleeding and blind with rage and
disappointment, to the farther parts of
the city, where until early this morning
their scattered bands pillaged the baker
les and other shops where food could be
had; and, led sometimes by women,
sometimes by men, defied the police
and spread abroad the rallying cry of
socialism.
After the rioters had been driven from
before the castle gates, thousands Of the
unemployed gathered in the streets. es-
pecially of the eastern quarter. Men
rushed forth from their homes, followed
by wives and children beseeching them
not to risk their lives. On Weissen-
strasse a tall, good looking woman of
strong German build, denounced the au-
thorities and demanded that her hearers
proceed to obtain by violence the food
they were not permitted to earn.
AS darkness came on the mob in
creased The rioters held virtually pos
session of the eastern quarter of Berlin,
and especially of Frankfurter, Koepn-
ECKER, Andreas and Weissenburger
streets. The whole police force was
called out, under orders to go to any ex-
tremity.
A carpenter with hammer brought
down more than one of the police, but at
length fell himself, severely wounded by
a revolver bullet.
One of the sturdiest of the mob was a
Brandcnburg blacksmith, who, with no
weapon but his fists, resisted half dozen
policemen in their efforts to make him a
prisoner A terrible blow from his right
arm nearly killed one of his assailants,
and he was shot down. He was borne to
n hospital fatally wounded.
In (1ruenerweg strasse the mob at
tackled the beer houses and shops, de-
handing bread and beer. They pillaged
the bakeshops and divided the bread
among all who wanted it. The half
famis6ed people seized and devoured the
food with wolfishness which was elo-
uuent of their misery and hunger. Some
men left the mob and hurried home, with
loaves under their arms, to their starving
families. Others sat down on the street
and banqneted on the spoils.
At Elizabeth strasse the police stopped
a man who was hurrying along with
loaves clasped in his arms. He fell on
his knees and begged to be allowed to
pass ''My children have had nothing to
eat since Tuesday," he cried. They had
other work to attend to and allowed him
to go.
The police were directed with much
Judgment and skill, their instructions
being to aim for the capture, or if neces-
sary, the killing OF those VINO appeared
to be leaders. This they carried out, and
as fast as one who seemed to be ring
leader was taken. he was hurried away
to prison. In this way the mob was
kept disorganized and prevented from
forming any formidable group.
The military remained under arms, but
took no part in the struggle. This course
is said to have been followed by the
direct orders of the Kaiser. It is also
intimated that the authorities had an
intimation that the soldiers could not be
trusted in a conflict with the people. and
that they were safer in garrison than
they would be on the streets.
The panic caused by the uprising is al
most universal in the city, and it is
openly proclaimed by many that the be-
ginning of a stubborn fight with the
masses is at hand.
The city was comparatively quiet this
morning