The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-04-18
THE CIVIL GUARDS Mos,L,zEp.
Mons Dynamiters Shatter . Church
and Defeat the Gendarmes.
4 Critical State 81 Affairs In Belgium-
zsnts Laid Waste BY IN Earthquake-
Many People Killsd-Trosble Brsws
IN Oorvl0.

to preserve order In this city. Strong re-
Inducements of chasseurs and carbineers
are arriving with every train this evening.
All the officers have received . city map
on which is marked the neutral
zone from which the crowds are
to be excluded. II 10 reported that
the premier has proposed to the king
that parliament be dissolved and general
election be held. Jamson. Radical leader
in the chamber, is said to have demanded
an audience with the king. Anxiety as to
the events Of tomorrow is intense. The
news from Mons and Antwerp has stricken
the more prosperous classes with panic.
Their general tendency is to urge the dep
uties to decide speedily the question of
suffrage. and not to be too sparing of con-
cessions to . popular demand.
The industrial revolution against the
chamber of deputies is now in full
progress. Today 1000 dock laborers in
Antwerp joined the movement of
strikers. cut off communication with ves-
sells at the quays by throwing gangways
into the river. and indulged in other seri-
Gus demonstrations. Many of the men
employed in loading and unloading ves-
sells and other work did not quit, and the
strikers made an attack on them. The
gendarmes took q hand and several
strikers were wounded. A number of
ringlcaders among the strikers we're cap
tured. A dispatch from Antwerp this
evening shows that the situation is more
threatening since noon. The strikers
gathered repeatedly in large crowds
throughout the northern districts. At 8
o'clock the squadron of police riding with
drawn swords against the workingmen
were overwhelmed with shower of stones
AND timbers. The police reired in con-
fusion. While the reserves were being
summoned tho strikers threw up barri-
cades in side streets, and women and chill
dren FASTENED from houses with firearms.
When another squadron of police, sup
ported by detachment of civic guards,
tried half an hour later to drive back the
mob, they were met with volleys from tho
revolvers and rifles of the men behind the
barricade. Many of the soldiers were
wounded and removed to tho hospital.
More military was summoned and carried
the barricades. The crowds are still gath
ering in the northern districts this even.
ing. and moro fighting II expected.
The strikers at Mons have resorted to
the use Of dynamite. A bomb which md
been placed close to the Petit Washes
chuSch was exploded this morning with
great violence, shattering the stained
glass windows of the church and doing
other damage. There is no clue to tho
perpetrators and it is generally attributed
to socialists. This use of dynamite at
Mons seems to have acted as an incentive
to strikers to commit further outrages.
The strikers indulged in all manner of
threats against the government and deter
mined to take possession of the town for q
labor procession. A desperate hand-to-
hand conflict with the guard ensued. The
battle was long and bitterly contested, but
finally the guard was victorious. Four of
the miners were killed and many
wounded, and fourteen soldiers were
wounded, three fatally. This ARRAY has
added greatly to the excitement in town
and there is danger of more serious out.
breaks.
There is no denying the fact that the
crisis is acute. Excited meetings in favor
of universal suffrage are being held
throughout the country. Everywhere i'm
passioned appeals were made to those who
live by toll to join in Tie general demon
stration. In the Charleroi district, where
Co,VVo 1hAuoAC oi0 Snipso 0us WOIA All IulItcS
is at standstill. Most Of these miners
are miserably poor and they and their
families are bound to suffer. Cotton,
yarn, lace, linen and wooden mills and
factories are affected by the movement,
a large number of operatives hav-
ing joined the strike Some hot
blooded strikers at Gramont assembled in
Cafe Holland and held an impromptu
meeting, at which fiery speeches were
made by the leaders. Gendarmes at
tempted to break up the meeting but met
with strong resistance. two gendarmes and
large number Of rioters being seriously
wounded.
The cowardly assault on Mayor Bulz
yesterday gave rise to an excited discus
sion at meeting of the municipal council
today. A majority of councilmen ex-
pressed deep indignation. and proposed
that a delegation be appointed to wait
upon Bulz and express the councils sym
pathy; also that the police measures Or
dered by the mayor be approved by the
council. These proposals were objected to
by a minority of tho council. However.
after q violent debate, the proposals were
adopted.
The government haD issued decree call.
ing out all the militia for the defense of
the state. This means the mobilization of
some $3.50 troops against the working.
men.