The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1894-05-09
RI0TING RABBLE.
CLEVELAND TERRORlZED BY A FOR
EIGN-TONGUED MOB.

sIGN-TONGUED MOB.
Factories Bombsrded and Guttsd-Pollcc
Do Coed service-A Regiment Under
Armf-To Resist the Mob With Dyna-
mite.
CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 2.-After
the rlotous demonstrations of Nav day
the police department awoBe to the ne.
cesslty of prompt action, and Il was de-
termlned to dlsperse any gathering that
threatened trouble. This attitude on
the part Of the police seemed to anger
the men, and they were in very ugly
mood this morning. There was a gath
ering in the public square, as there has
been daily for the past two weeks. and
then start was made out Ontario
street; presumably to interfere with
a squad of forty street cleaners. Thir-
ty-hve officers were sent after the men
IN patrol wagons, and they charged the
mob and scattered it. Several heads
were broken in the melee.
A crowd Of several thousand men
then invaded the manufacturing dis
trict in the "Flats" The workmen
were driven from the Standard Paint
Works, and then an attack with rocks
and clubs was made on the VARIETY
Iron Works. The building was badly
used up, but the employees ESCAPED,
Then the Upson Nut and Bolt Works
were attacked. A loaded train of coal
cars was on the track near by. The
crowd mounted upon the coal and
bombarded the Upson Works. For a
time it looked as If these buildings
would be demolished. At this point
the crowd began to become frenzied,
and the noise made struck terror
through the entire fats. Most of the
crowd carried clubs, and as a body the
men had an ugly appearance. On
Scranton avenue, near the Cleveland.
Canton Southern tracks, the crowd
gutted scrap-iroh warehouse, some
Of them becoming possessors of dan
gerous weapons thereby.
The police, who had charged the mob
on Ontario street, went to the Upson
Nut Works, and no sooner had they
taken possession of the works than an
angry mob numbering thousands sur
rounded 1t and hoWled for revenge. All
the police of the eighth precinct were
cal led out when it was learned that
the rioters had penned thirty-iVe po-
lice IN the Upson works. Learning
that reinforcement of officers were
coming, the crowd turned its attention
to FauIhaber's furniture factory, on
Scranton avenue, and broke all the
windows. They were about to loot the
place when the extra police arrived
and chased them down the street. The
police headed by Capt. English and
Capt. Burns, chased the crowd down to
Abbey street bridge, and the crowd
took possession OF the bridge and be-
gan throwing stones and bricks at the
police. The police, with drawn revolv-
ers backed up by the patrol wagons,
charged, Whereupon the mob fed in ali
directions. The police pursued, and
took in charge all they could get hold
of.
There are few English speaking peo-
pie In the mob. 1t was q rabble COM
posed almost entirely Of foreigners.
There were fully four Thousand Of
them when the crowd was at its great.
est strength. 1t dwindled rapidly,
however, when the police got to work.
Mayor Blee issued proclamation dur
ing the afternoon calling upon sn citi-
Zens to refrain from assembling to-
gether for purposes of riot and disor-
der, and stating that all the powers
vested in the city government will be
used to enforce the law and maintain
order. The mayor also held consul
tation with the officers Of the Fifth
Regiment, and as result six compa.
MES OF that regiment, together with
the Cleveland Grays and the City
Guards, were ordered to assemble IN
their armories, subject to calls for SER
vice by the mayor.
During the afternoon another mob
visited the works of the United Salt
Company and drove the men from
their work. The rioters then proceeded
to the Cleveland Rolling Mills, where
they had a conflict with tbs police.
There was about ten minutes of fierce
clubbing, and then the crowd gave way
and scattered in every direction. Seven
of the rioters, all with broken heads,
were arrested.
The Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling
railway contractors, at work in Brook.
lyn Village, have place. charges of
dynamite in the hills surrounding their
works and connected them with elec.
trio batteries. Dynamite bombs have
also been prepared for the defence of
their Workmen.
Fearing trouble during the evening
squad of $50 police was stationed in
the public so quare to prevent any gath.
ering there. The people of the city are
filled with fear tonight that the mob
will resort to the torch or dynamite
and attempt to destroy factories and
private residences.
A Republican Landslide.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, May Inlay