Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-04
Unruly Element Keeps the Authorities on
the Move for Several Hours.
Many COLLISIONS BUT NO FATALITIES
Officers Manage t. Uont:ol the Rioters With.
out Having to Kill Any,
EXCITEMENT ABOUND TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Crowds Gather Around the Historic Mouu.
ments and Insist on Making Speeches
While the Police Use Clubs to
Prevent tho Demonstrations.


lCopyrightei, 1898, bv the associated rress.l
LONDON, Dec, 3.-The good and bad people
of London were treated this afternoon to n
sight rarely seen in England. 1t was little
less than anarchy bidding a bold defiance to
the law and the authorities making n display
of policy calculated to strike terror into the
hearts OF the evil minded. And while this
was going on thousands of law abiding citl-
zens looked on and wondered if this was
"Merrie England, y and asked each other il
the world was not coming to an end. 1t all
came through the announcement OF the an
archists of London to the effect that they in
tended to hold q meeting on Trafalgar
square.
Such a thing could not be tolerated. said
Hon. Henry Asquith, secretary of state for
home affairs. when questioned upon the
subject in the House Of Commons last week.
and he promptly issued Instructions to the
police ordering the chief commissioner, Sir
Edward Bradford, to take steps necessary
to prevent the meeting from taking place.
The anarchists thereupon declared their in
tention of holding the meeting in spite of the
authorities.
Threatened to Use Dynamite.
The attention OF the House of Commons
was called, through the newspapers, to the
fact that the anarchists, upon the occasion
of their last meeting in Trafalgar square,
openly advocated a policy of blood and
dynamite, and, held up for glorifcation, the
dynamite outrages at Barcelona, Marseilles
and Other places. and practically urged the
anarchists of England TO follow the example
OF their brethren in Spain and France.
The result was that the home secretary
did not dare to allow any further
rope to the reds of London and TIL
police this afternoon mustered a strong force
about Trafalgar squire, III the Strand, in
Cockspur street, and III Whitehall, while re-
serves were stationed in Regent street,
Waterloo Pare, Charing Cross road, North
umoerland avenue and on the embankment.
One would have imagined this display of
police force would awe deferred the anar-
chlsts from making any demonstration, but
they were evidently prepared to carry out
the threat to meet on Trafalgar square in
spite of the authorities, for they began to
muster at 3 o'clock this afternoon, thougt,
the four sides of the square were black with
police, mounted and on foot.
Witnessed by Thousands.
This display of force caused many thou
sands of people TO flock to the vicinity and
the front of the National gallery was soon SO
packed with people that it WAS impossible for
a vehicle TO pass through the crowds unless
assisted by the mounted police. The gather
ing of these crowds was just what the
anarchists wanted, as it enabled them to do
more towards spreading their fiery literature
and thereby ventilating their dynamite doc
trines than any meeting which they could
have held upon Trafalgar square would have
done.
Male ana female anarchists mixed among
the thousands of the assembled people about
the square and began hawking anarchist
literature, which, owing to the novelty
of the situation, found Il ready sale
among the people assembled. Copies of
the Common Veal, the organ of the an
archists of London, found a ready sale in the
crowds, its frontispieco being an illustration
of Labor as Samson pulling down the pill
lars of church and state.
This specimen of anarchist literature also
contained an article headed Bombs and
in which the writer welcomed the Barcelona
bomb outrage and glorled in the fact that
thirty people We're killed and eighty in
iured by dynamite bombs thrown into the
audience upon that occasion.
Nicol, the anarchist leader. was u promi-
nent figure among those of the same manner
of thinking as himself who gathered upon
the square this afternoon. The police by
twos and threes kept moving about tho
square and thus compelled the anarchists to
move on, " apparently determined that no
addresses should be made.
Moved on IA ~ nal.
AT $40, as il by prearranged signal. q
number of anarchists made a rush for tho
steps at the foot of the Gordon statue and
one of their number Immediately began to
nal a wild address to those who had
rushed up to the steps with him, but the
anarchist orator had hardly uttered his first
sentence before a number OF policemen
charged up to the spot and dislodged the reds
from the steps, scattering them in all dlrec-
tions in the most lively manner, amid the
cheers of the vast majority of thou.
sands assembled about TO see the demonstra-
tion. The attempt Of the reds 10 hold a
meeting on the steps Of the statue was fol-
lowed by other ana similar attempts, which
resulted in a number OF lively brushes with
the police, who for a time were kent very busy
hustling the anarchists from one point TO
another. During the dispensing Of these
anarchists groups a number Of reds were
pretty roughly handled By the policemen.
At tie Nelson Monument.
Eventually the anarchists on the square
became so demonstrative that a further de-
tachment Of fifty policemen were sent 10 tue
square, arriving at 3;l5, and with the police
men already there assembled they formed a
double Gordon around the Nelson monument.
Suddenly an anarchist rushed through
the lines OF the police, scaled the monument
and began 10 address the crowd, out he had
only uttered a few words when a stalwart
policeman seized him and threw him bodily
into the crowd. AS the anarchist stll tried
TO speak ne was seized by two policemen and
hustled OF to the nearest police station, fol-
lowed by q shouting crowd Of those in sym-
ma hv Nth tho prfaona.