St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-28
Hard Pressed by Maleontents,
Berlin Police Fight for
Blood.
Many Critical Engagements
at Close Quarters, and
Gore Runs Freely.
Genuine WOrkmen Among
the Rioters, and the Off,
GERS PoWerless.
All Classes Fear the Outlook
for Today--Troops Under
Arms.

BERLIN, Feb. 27.-Despite the gen.
orally quiet aspect of the streets during
this morning and afternoon, just appre-
tensions were felt, and the public was
anxious to know what would happen
during the evening. Groups of rowdies
were reported to be assembling in the
Nueu Market aed the Hachshe Market,
in Gruteweg and other centers, chiefly
in the northern and eastern parts
of the city. Along the Inter
Den Linden and in Scloss
Platz quiet prevailed. Mounted police
were patroling all the leading thorough
fares around the Schloss and kept the
people on the move. Patrols also &C.
cupisd the market places and the
streets converging upon the quarters
occupied by workingmen.
The situation seemed to be under the
absolute control of the police until
nightfall, when rowdyism renewed it's
tussle with the authorities. The first en-
counter occurred at the Haeckesche mar
ket, A noisy mob gradually assembled
here after four o'clock. 1t consisted of
young workingmen, who had probably
become excited with beer after leaving
their work. and largely, also. of the
most rowdy element in Berlin. The
officers got so blocked in the mass of
people that they sent for reinforements.
Then they
Charged with Drawn Sabers.
driving the crowds toward Neue Freid-
richstrasse and neutrality-suspicious..
The several thousand rioters thus split
up by the police tactics reassembled
later on the parading streets in the
northern quarters. Bouenthalstrasse
became the next focus of the rioting.
The position here at 9 o'clock appeared
to be critical. A great mass of peo-
pie, many of whom were OBJ
vlously genuine workingmen, but
among whom were host of loafers,
assembled in groups listening to social
istie speakers, who violently denounced
the government, the police. and, in fact,
everything comprising the existing
order of things.
The police made another charge on
the mob and repeated it again and
again. but the crowd, after giving way
a little at each charge, reclosed
its ranks and fought the police
with desperate energy, using as
weapons sticks. stones, heavy bill
lets of wood and anything they
could lay hands upon. The police were
getting the worst of the contest, as they
had only used the flats of their swords
in striking, but when they saw the tide
of battle turning against them they did
not hesitate to use the edge of their
sabres, and they struck right and left,
caring naught for the wounds they in
ficted, but determined. to overcome the
rioters.
A large number of the rioters were
badly hurt, and some of the wounds in
flicted 10y the keen-edged sabers in the
hands of the police are apt to result
seriously. A large number of the
wounded we're taken TO surgeries in the
vicinity, where their Commissions were
melee was over, and large number of
the rioters were safe under lock and
key in the police stations.
Looted the Shops.
AS OnThursday, some of the rioters took
advantage of the uproar to smash shop
windows and seize upon the goods dis
whatever came within their reach. A
feature of tonight was the large in
crease in the number of workingmen
who were mixed up with the mob. Here
tofore the greater part of the crowds
have consisted of men who are never
known to work, professional agi-
tators and the dregs of hu-
manity who infest the city. To-
night, however, there were many gen
uine workingmen in the crowds. This
may be attributed to the fact that to-
day is pay day for mechanics, laborers,
ETC., and, carried away by the prevail
ing excitement and liberal supply of
money wherewith to purchase intoxi-
cants, they were drawn into the mael-
strom Of disorder, and when charged by
the police, they fought as desperately as
did the others of the mob.
The difficulties under which the po-
lice labored were greatly added to by
the streams of people who paraded the
streets, not to create any disturbance.
but to watch the fun" when it did oc-
cur. They, of course, hampered the
police, for the latter, though displaying
no hesitancy in
Charging the MObs,
did not desire to lnjure peaceabe citi-
Zens, and consequently they were not
as free in their actions as they other
wise would have been. A rumor gained
currency that all the unemployed of the
city were to form monster procession
and march down friedrich strasse and
along the Inter den Linden. Although
common reasoning powers should have
shown that no such proce ssion would
be allowed; that any such idea was ut
terly chlmerical, tens of thousands of
persons, men, women and children,
gathered along the alleged route of the
procession. 1t is needless to say that
their curiosity was not gratified.
The riots in the Haeckesche market
and in Rosenthal straSse showed the de-
termination of the mobs to resist the
authorities to their utmost. The advice
given to the socialists by their organ,
the VOrwaerts, does not seem to have
had the excellent effect that was eX-
pected upon the socialist work
ingmen. That paper appealed to
the socialists to act in an
orderly manner and to keep
away from the beer shops, but
the appeal fell on unheeding ears, or
else the influence of the beer houses
was more potent than good advice. All
the police available were concentrated
tonight in the northeast districts Of the
city. After the fight in observation-disclosures,
Serious Collisions
occurred in Brunnen and Frankfurter
strasse. AS the rioting increased the
authorities issued an order calling upon
the people to close their houses and to
remain indoors. This order, however,
did not suffice to keep the curious off
the streets, and many unoffending per-
sons must have suffered for their i'm
prudence at the hands Of the police.