The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-04-13
Two of the Rioters Killed and Twen-
ty-FOur Persons Taken to Hospitals
Suffering from Wounds.
MORE TROUBLE is PROBABLE
ALL KING LEOPOLD'S DOMAIN
SETTLING WITH DIsCONTENT.
Fears Expressed That Strikers Will
Commit Violence This Week
Cause OF the Ferment.

BRUSSELS, April 13.-When NJ. Van Der
velde, the Socialist leader, left the Cham
ber of Deputies yesterday afternoon and
emerged into the street he was recognized
and followed by number of persons The
police dispersed the crowd and arrested NJ.
Van Dervelde who was conveyed to the
police station. but was soon released with
the official explanation that his being taken
into custody was mistaken identity. After
being released NJ. Van Dervelde proceeded
to the Maison du Peuple, where he ad-
dressed the crowd, urging them to refrain
from creating a disturbance, and not to
give the police a pretext for further vio-
lence. The crowd gradually dispersed. but
later reassembled in the square facing the
Maison du Peuple. A detachment of the
civic guard thereupon marched through the
square, clearing 1t and the contiguous
thoroughfares. At 1O:3o the mob again grew
troublesome and the guard was ordered to
clear the narrow, tortuous adjacent streets,
The gendarmes charged with drawn swords
and fixed bayonets. and were greeted with
hail of stones. The people in some of
the houses hurled flower pots, knives and
lighted boxes of matches upon the heads
of the charging police. A revolver fusillade
was begun by both sides, and some of the
sendarmes fired their rifles. Several rioters
were injured. two of them being shot, one
of whom has since died. A few of the
police were hurt.
After this encounter a wide area around
the Maison du Peuple was systematically
cleared by successive charges of gem
darmes carrying drawn swords and revolv-
ers and civic guards with fixed bavonets
Mounted gendarmes. wherever the crowd
looked ugly, fired blank cartridges from
their revolvers, while the officers shouted
at the top of their voices "Close your win
dows." Every open window was covered
by the rifles of the troops until it was
closed.
o'clock a. m.-Two of the Socialists
who were wounded in the rioting last even
ing have since died in the ST. Pierre Hos
pital. The news of their death spread
rapidly and a mob gathered with the in
tention of storming the building and car
rying off their bodies, but it was intercept
ed and dispersed by the troops, which are
maintaining a Gordon around the hospital.
2:40 a. ma downpour Of rain has
quenched the last flicker OF the rioters
enthusiasm. The guards have disbanded
and the town is quiet Twenty-four per-
sons have been taken to the hospitals sur
fering from injuries received in last nights
disturbances. One workman who was shot
has not been identified. He probably was
a mere spectator. as there were many such
in the crowd when the shooting suddenly
commenced.
The unexpectedness of last nights blood
shed. which exceeded that of any previous
evening. is shown by the fact tnat General
Verstratten, commanding the civic guard.
had just ordered the ambulance withdrawn
when the firing opened. and the ambu-
lance was Immediately needed TO gather
~ the injured. Yitriol was thrown from the