The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-03
POLICE FIGHT WITH MOBS.
4 Day Of RiOting in CleVeland'S
Manufacturing District.

.r.arIv 900 Persons In the MOD
u,ban It Was At It's Greatest
s+rength-It Beats a Hasty Retreat
:, Nearly Every Instance on the
Arpearance of the Blue Coats-Man-
ufaoturing Embellishments Bombar-
ded With stones and the Workmen
inside Driven Away.
Cleveland o., May 2.-After theriotous
dornopstrations of Mayday the police de-
~ortment awoke to the necessity of
i~,r,nt action, aud it was determined to
disnerse any gathering that threatened
tronbIe This attitude on the part of the
ro,e seemed to anger the men
and they were in a very ugly
,,ool this morning. There was
gathering in the public square,
&c there has been daily for the past two
weeks. and then a start was made out
Ontario street, presumably to interfere
with a squad of forty street cleaners.
Tbrty-fve officers were sent after the
men in patrol wagons, and they charged
The mob and scattered it. Several heads
were broken in the melee.
MEN DRIVEN FROM WORK.
Acrowd Of several thousand men in
vaded the manufacturing district 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 BAN
barded the Upson works. For a time it
looked as if these buildings would be de-
molished.
TIRE MOB BECOMES FRENzIED.
At this point, the crowd began to be-
come frenied. and the noise made struck
terror through the Flats. Most of the
crowd carried clubs, and as body the
men had an ugly appearance. On Scran-
ton avenue, near the Cleveland, the crowd
Quilted a scrap iron warehouse, some of
them becoming the possesSOFs of dangerous
weapons thereby The police who had
charged the mob on Ontario street went
To the Epson Nut Works, and no sooner
had they taken possession of the works
than an angry mob, mum bering thousands,
surrounded it and howled for revenge.
All the police in the precinct were called
out when it was learned that the rioters
had penned thirty-tive police in the Upson
works.
THE MOB RETREATS.
Learning that a reinforcement of
officers was coming, the crowd turned its
attention to Falhaber'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 the
Abbey street bridge, and the crowd took
possession of the bridge and began throw
ing stones and bricks at the police. The
police. with drawn revolvers, backed up
by the patrol wagon, charged, whereupon
the mob fled in all directions The police
pursued and took in charge all they could
get hold of. There were few English
speaking people in the mob. 1t was a
ra0hle composed almost entirely of for
egners. There were fully 1900 of them
when the crowd was at its greatest
strength. 1t dwindled rapidly, however,
When the police got to work.
THE MAYOR ISSUES A PROCLAMATION.
Mayor Blee issued proclamation dur
ing the afternoon, calling upon all citizens
~retran from assembling together for
purposes of riot and disorder, and stat
ing that all the powers vested in the city
government will be used to enforce the
aW and maintain order. The mayor also
held a consultation with the officers of
lne fltth regiment, and as result six
companies of that regiment, together
WIN the Cleveland Grays and the City
Guards, were ordered to assemble in
Slelr armories, subject to calls for SER
vice by the mayor.
RAID ON SALT WORKS.
During the afternoon another mob Wis
Neu the works of the United Salt Com
Rahy and drove the men from their work.
Lne rioters then proceeded to the Cleve.
lana Rolling mills. where they had con-
met with the police. There were about
zen minutes of fierce clubbing and then
eue crowd gave way and scattered in
egC,y direction. Seven of the rioters, all
WIN broken heads, were arrested.
TO BE MET WITH DYNAMITE.
Inc Cleveland, Loring and Wheeling
!tantI"dF contractors at work in BROOKLYN
image, nave placed charges of dynamite
Al vne nils surrounding their works and
TEonuecled them with electric batteries.
tGSudIulJe bombs have also been prepared
"I Ine defense of their workmen.
rearlng trouble during the evening. a
nS5I4! rSIIau Oh LOO police was stationed in the
n-ouc square to prevent any gathering
viI vMt[e, Inc people of the city are filed
so.t "iyu rear tonight that the mob will re-
f 1oIv 10 the torch or dynamite, and at
'ehpJ to DESTROY factories and nI.ivata