The Washington times., 1894-12-19
FIERCE LABOR RIOT
QUELLED BY MARINES
WOOdehOppers in B itish Honduras
W4Hted SIS Per MGn'h.
BECAME FRENzIED BY NANT
Clerks Net the Violent Mob With a
Hot Revolver Fire.
Only Few People Were Wounded on Both
Sides, and the Rioters, Overcoming the
Opposition, Rushed Into the Stores and
Wrecked the Stock, Only Ceasing Rioting
on the Appearance of the Blue Jackets.

NEW ORLEANS, Dec 1s.-The Central Amer
lean Times of December Il, publ shed at
Beliza, British Honduras, received here by
mail to-day, contains long account of a
labor riot which TOOK place there on the 11th
instant
The origin of the present disturbance is
purely industrial. The men engaged in ma
hogany and Iogwoed cutting, who constitute
the bulk OF tie laborers o. the colony, de-
manded higher wages than merchants were
inclined to pay, and having failed to obtain
relief by apphrHtiouto lhe authorities, they
became exasperated and began to wreck the
stores OF their employers
When the mob had reached Mutrie's store it
was confronted by the clerks armed with re-
volvers. They fired over the heads of the
mob and wounded a man and woman The
mob then rushed into Cramer's store. smash
ing number of glass cases, musical boxes
and instruments and carried of large num-
Der of watches. Several persons were slightly
bruised by being struck with clubs.
From about $40 o'clock, when the rioting
began, until O'Clock the town was unpro-
teeted and at the
MERCY OF The MOB.
The constabulary were not idle but the
rioters were not in a temper TO listen TO rea-
son, and all efforts of the officers were insult
fcient to produce a cessation OF disorder.
All that they could do was to take into Gus
tody and condue IN the police station man
whom they looked upon as a ringleader
The rioters then turned their attention to
the police station The windows were broken
and the attitude of the mob was so threaten
ing that the prisoner was released few
minutes before o'clock forty blue jackets
and three files of marines were landed and
marched to the courthouse wharf. On the
blue jackets being drawn uD in front of the
police station all signs OF disorder ceased
From the steps OF the council chamber the
Governor addressed few remarks to the
crowd, urging them to diSpeFse.
During this time the more violent spirits
had rapidly crossed the bridge ami were re-
assembling at Currie's store and became ex-
ceedingly threatening again. The sailors
were then brought over 10 keep them in
check. The attorney general mounted a box
and gave the men five minutes to disperse,
threatening if they did not ne would read the
not act and the sailors would
USE THEIR FIREARMS.
The men stood sullenly around for short
time but gradually melted away
On the 18th there was an attempt made to
rescue all prisoners as they were being trans
fer5ed from the police station to the ia |. but
the blue jackets drove them of. On We,lnes-
day Cramer i Co. posted notice Offering TO
pay Toodchoppers SIS per month THIS IS
the amount the strikers demanded. Then
they sent white flag to the governor and
asked that their comrades in prison be only
fined and that they lie paid SIS per month.
30 far the governors answer has not been
made public. H. u. S. Pelican has arrived
and the Canada was expected again yester-
dnn-