The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1898-05-13
THE MILAN O
Peace Restored by the Rife and h
Cannon-The Carnage Fearful-Nany
Innocent People Killed.

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London, May e.-The Milan CORE
spondent of h Daily News telegraph
ing Monday says:
Calm reigns again. This being SO.
il can do no harm to say plainly.
though it is by no means certain the
words will reach you, that during the
last two days this city has been in the
throes Of revolution. with all its hor-
rors and all its sadness.
Certain quarters today present a
scene Of complete devastation. In 9TH
ers the quietness of terrorism reigns,
and this is the more striking when
contrasted in TIE mind of the spectator
with the scenes of yesterday and Sat
urday, when above the shrieks of dy-
ing rose the walls Of widows and or
phans. the hoarse words Of command
and n irresistible tramp Of soldiers,
followed by the terrible boom of con-
non.
when the fury first broke out many
people, who would have nothing to do
with the movement were caught, as il
were, in a trap. Here is an instance:
Iitl TIE SOIuIeTS were ADVANCING
to the charge against the first barri-
cade in the Via Torino, a lady, young.
richly dressed, was struck by a bullet
in the breast. She fell against the
wall, only having time to exclaim
Mother before dying. In the same way
old people, unable to resist the rush,
were shot, or trampled under foot.
AT the central station the engine
drivers and guards refused to leave
their families To the r1arnU of the n1nh
However, after a delay of forty min
utes, the troops obliged them to go on
with the trains. The fighting was in
real earnest, and the soldiers were re-
ceived as people receive a foreign in
vader. Pools of blood were seen in the
street and often also the scattered
rains Of the killed.
= THE Red Cross service organized it's
members, wearing the international
badge and succOred the wounded and
dying. Many children had exceeding
ly narrow escapes, the firing coming
just as the schools had been closed at
noon. Parents rushed about in an
agony Of mind. Women, instead of re-
straining the men, egged them on to
greater excuses and even allowed
their children to participate. Some even
pushed themselves under the noses
of the soldiers, crying, 'COWards!' AS
sassins.' We work all day to maintain
you in %idleness,' and raising similar
protests. When the mob invaded the
central railway station the express
train was on the point of leaving. h
rioters, when they saw it, cried, Look.
LOO They are going to Turin for the
fetes of the jubilee of the constitution;
they are going to enjoy themselves.
Shame, shame; come back, come back
and so on. Meanwhile the train ad-
vanced, but very slowly, and hundreds
of people threw themselves upon the
track in front of the engine, screaming,
Come on, but over our bodies
"A very noticeable point throughout
the two days fighting has been that
the working men, although without ad-
equate means for offensive of defensive,
have shown extraordinary tactical
knowledge, a proof, among others, that
indignation existed and that prepara-
tons had been made perhaps not for
an explosion now, but at the first Op-
perfume moment. Thirteen barbados
were built by the mob at the COrso
Garibaldi, where this main street was
connected with others, forming a small
square,.