St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-08-31

Heavy squadrons of Police Called
Out and Are Attacked by the
Mob With Coupling Pins
Order Soon Mayor
Harrison Will Allow No More
Crowds OF Speeches.
| CHICAGO. Aug. 30.-Gatling guns In
use directly in front OF the Auditorium
was the scene imminent for a short
time today. Coupling pins and clubs
were the worst weapons actually
brought into use. however, and the most
prominent public grounds in the city.
the landing place OF the worlds fair
steamers. was narrowly spared spec
tacle of carnage parallellng the memo
rable Haymarket riots
An enormous crowd Of unemployed
men and women had congregated Oh the
lake front for the purpose of holding a
mass meeting. The number of people
assembled was so very much larger
than expected that 500 policemen were
hurriedly placed on for duty at
the park, ,and 1000 additional more sum-
moned from distant police stations to be
in readiness in case of trouble. The
police were very apprehensive of a dis
turbance, and took every precaution to
prevent a serious outbreak.
During the morning crowds of unem-
ployed and idle spectators crowded
around the
Columbus Monument.
AS the minutes passed the crowd
grew larger and more turbulent. Indi-
cations of rioting began to manifest
themselves, and in addition to the num-
ber of officers in plain clothes circulat-
ing among the throng, Chief of Police
Brennan summoned first 500 uniformed
men, and later round thousand.
The first uniformed police to arrive
were under command of Inspector
Laughlin, and were cheered as they ap-
peared among the crowd. The COM
mander was told that crowd of 500
Italians and others had started up State
street. bent Oh mischief. With thirty
men the inspector started after the mob.
The police came upon the crowd at
Louis Stizzari's provision store at 565
State street. In the basement of Stiz-
Zari's market were stored fifty rifles
and a number OF flags used by the Ital-
ian societies in their parades. These
the mob demanded, and invaded the
premises to obtain possession of them.
Spizzari, who is leader among the
Italians, addressed the crowd, and,
after refusing to let them have the
Guns and Flags,
pushed the invaders ou. of his store
and locked the doors. AS concession
| StiaZari gave the leaders 50 and they
| bought Italian and American flags and
| returned to the Columbus monument on
the lake front, followed by the police
| squad. During the parley the police
| kept the streets near StiZZari's place
clear, but made no arrests.
News of the events on State street
| irritated the lake front mob, and it be-
came more and more disorderly. Ex-
cited individuals made speeches con-
| tinuOusly, and soon stones began to be
thrown. Rioters who were on the east
ern outskirts of the mob picked up
| coupling pins from the Illinois Central
| tracks and the heavy missiles were
| thrown toward the police.
Inspectors Shea and Laughlin at this
| juncture promptly ordered a charge on
| the crowd.
/ The Police
in force were by this time but short
distance south of the body of the mob,
and before the rioters saw the advance
the shock came. The contest was of
short duration.
| AS the heart of the mob around the
| monument saw their friends scattered
before the swinging clubs. the leaders
turned and fed. Their course lay north
and west out of the park to Michigan
avenue In an incredibly short time
/ the mob dwindled away and the rioters
sought safe escape In the alleys and
streets.
During the riot the back door of Bat