The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-22
had to stand idly by and watch the build

had to stand idly by and watch the build
ing burn to the ground.
Having destroyed the brick hospital, the
mob went around burning police stations
and neating police captains wherever these
could be found An attempt was finally
made to set fire to the remaining hospitals
In the city, but the laEeness of the hour and
the activity of the soldiers dissuaded the
people from further rioting for that even
ing.
Fatigued with their work, the rioters
separated TO their homes, shouting as they
did so that on the morrow they would kill
all the doctors, and burn their houses to the
ground. A panic regned throughout the
city, and the wakeiul population spent the
night in terror.
Day had no sooner dawned on the Fourth
OF July than tue mob again gathered, this
time more numerous and formidable than
ever. The first act Of their reawakened
Frenzy was TO smash and utterly destroy
some free tea rooms which philanthr opio
persons had established and were conduct
| ing in the interest of workingmen the
| rioters declaring that the tea in the rooms
| had been poisoned by the doctors. BY
this time the city seemed to be wholly sur
rendered to the mob, for the stores were
closed and barr1caded and she police, to
save their lives, were going about in
plain clothes and saying nothing EN-
boldened by their success OF the previous
| day, the rioters proceeded TO the governors
| house, aud there called on the official head
of the province to come out and explain to
the people who it was that had ordered
| cholera patients to be buried alive. Min
| gled with these demands were cries that the
doctors should be handed over to the rioters.
and that money and bread should be given
to the people TO enable those who wished to
leave the city. Threats to smash the Official
building 10 pieces were freely used.
The governors house Is a large brick
building of three stories the basement Of
which is occupied by shops. On the one
side it stands on Moscow street, and on the
other faces large open square. In the GEN.
ter OF which Is statue OF Alexander II
These approaches to the building were
quickly filed with an excited, gesticulating
mob, whose deafening cries rendered any
attempt to parley with them impossible. IL
was here that the governor determined to
make his stand. The man who had been
forced to remain inactive while hos
pitals were being burned, doctors
murdered and policemen beaten, now
found himself able to draw the line at the
smashing OF his official residence. Al the
first signs OF the attack he had introduced a
detachment of Cossacks into the building
and the precaution was not taken a moment
too soon. With wild "hurrah" the mob
began to lombard the structure with
powders and paving stones taken
from the street. But its first volley
was its last. From the upper win
dows OF the two sides of the build.
ing the soldiers fred down upon the
closely packed crowd, and at once the cries
of the dead and dying filed the air, among
the killed being many of the rioters, and
number OF iucautious spectators attracted
to tie place out OF curiosity. Most of the
crowd now dispersed, and from the thinned
ranks of the rioters. who had refused to be-
lieve that the Cossacks would fire on them,
arose the cry: "Shoot oni It's better for
us to die at once than to be buried alivep
The soldiers fired two more volleys with
blank cartridges to intimidate the mob, and
then removed the dead and wounded to the
Kremlin near by. At o'clock In the day
Moscow street. with its blood-smeared pave
ments. had been cleared Of the crowd, and
order bad also been restored In the adjaoent
streets.