Evening star., 1902-02-21
R|OT|NG CONTINUES
The Situation in Spain Re
mains Serious.
THE STRIKE SPREADS
ITALIAN ANARCHISTS GO TO AID
OF RIOTERS.
Many Conflicts Between Troops and
the Strikers-Censorship is Strict
Hard to Get Facts.

MADRID, February 21.-According to this
mornings advices from Barcelona the sit
uation there is improving. though it is still
threatening. An effort will be made today
10 resume ordinary avocations,
The most stringent measures have been
prepared to protect traffic and business.
The strikers have few rifles but well
supplied with reyolvers and daggers.
The search of suspected houses continues.
resulting in the arrest of large numbers of
anarchists and revolutionists of all kinds
who are considered to be the prime movers
In the troubles. The cosmopolitan charac-
ter of Barcelona makes it resort for rep
resentatives of all the revolutionary Gle
ments in Europe. and the ranks of The mall
content workmen have been swelled by
French and other foreign political asita-
tors. The republicans are busy among the
troops, urging them not to their arms
against their own class in defense of pluto
c-ats.
The working people of Madrid favor the
st-:!.--s
Martial Law at Tar1agona
Martial law has been proclaimed at Tar
rasona. The strike is spreading in the
LloSregat and Cardona valleys There is a
general cessation of work at Catellon de la
Piana and Carve. and much excitement
prevails at Batea- Forces of gendarmerie
have been dispatched to those places.
Delegates from the labor societies of Sar-
agossa have visited the governor and de-
clared themselves opposed TO the strike.
Forty persons have been killed since the
disturbances broke out here The strikers
today attacked the jail in an attempt to
rescue their imprisoned d comrades but they
were repUlsed by the troops. after a num-
Der of rioters had been killed or wounded.
The ordinary necessarics Of life are fail
Ing and the distress is becoming accen-
tuated. The strikers are said TO be re-
ceivng large sums of money from London
In the neiGhboring towns the dstur-
Dances are spreading and increasing
in gravity.
BILBAO. Spain. February 21.-A number
of anarchists have arrived here with the
object OF melting a strike. The socialists
have refused to cooperate in the move
ment.
Sensational Dispatch Denied.
LONDON. February o1-Dspatches re-
ceived here from Madrid and Barcelona
and from various frontier towns in close
touch with the scenes of the disturbances
In Spain quite discredit the sensational
dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph Com
pany, saying that fierce battle had been
fought between troops and rioters in a
suburb of Barcelona, that the artillery
raked street after street and that 900 per-
sons were reported to have been killed or
wounded both sides. AS a matter Of
fact, up to last evening the total number
of persons killed throughout the distur-
Dances was only forty.
CASTELLON DE LA PLANA Spain,
February 21.-The employers and their en-
ployes reached an understanding this af-
ternoon and the strike here is ended.
sARAGOsSA. Spain. February 2l-A
number of rioters attacked the Jesuit COL
lege here last night. The fathers fired on
the mob, believing their assailants to be
thieves.
VALENCIA, Spain, February 21-In a
conflict here yesterday between rioters and
the police three persons were wounded
Fourteen arrests were made