The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1908-03-30
FOLLOWED A RED
FLAG DEMONSTRATION
Gotham AWakeS 10 Fact
That il HarbOrS a Nest
Of Vipers
lBy Associated presa1


New York, March 3O.--A red flag
fluttered IN Union square today. A
homb fell two men lay dying in the
Peoples playground. and New York
awoke To the fact that It harborea
those prepared 10 give their lives in
larmed resistance to constituted
authority
The bomb was intended for the po.
lice who with rough firmnesa had
broken up a meeting of 10000 unem-
ployed. II exploded prematurely ~
ihe hands OF the assassin horribly
wounding him. Killing his companion.
injuring slightly four policemen and
throwing 20 the ground a score of
those who were massed in the vicinity.
Tonight Union Square park, where
the public demonstration mad been
made, is roped off from pedestrians. Z.
a hundred police patrol the boundary
streets and at the station house 500
reserves, armed with reyolyers and
night sticks, are IN readiness to throw
themselves into any scene Of rioting
No further disorder had developed at
a late hour
Bomb throwing in the foreign settle
ments Of the East Side Is a rather com
mon occurrence but for the first time
today saw IN engine of destruction
openly and deliberately directed
against a squad of police officers. It
was meant for CAPTAIN Reilly's squad
Of twenty men and longer or slower
burning fuse would have perfected an
Instrument Of death for probably ev-
cry man of the twenty-one.
Red Hats and Flags.
A labor-or more eSactly a laborless
meeting. without police sanction
had been advertised to be held at the
park Saturday afternoon. In the thou
sands that gathered We're many OF q
riotous disposition, large number
wore red hats aud here and there
red flag was displayed.
Suddenly an order TO clear the park
was given and the $50 police, half OF
them mounted, charged the jeering,
hooting crowds arriving In time to
drive them back to the streets Of the
square circling the park. In the wide
streets the crowds, fast assuming the
nature OF a mob, fell into an indiffer-
ent formation and marched about the
square. Having cleared the park of
all but few apparently harmless men
who occupied benches the police con-
tented themselves with keeping the
paradeIs moving.
Encouraged the procession grew;
shouts OF derision and oaths directed
at the police filled the air, and then as
though by prearrangement the strains
of the ''Malseillaise' rose from 10000
throats. The police, hastily reinforced.
held themselves in restraint Captain
Reilly's squad. which haG been sta
TONED at the east side of the square.
started at a double quick pace, two
ablcast, across the park As they
neared the fountain that marks the
center of the grounds a slightly built
man dartpd out from the shadow cast
by the heroic statue of George WASH
ington and ran toward the officers.
whose backs We're turned TO their pnr-
suer large man kept az the Others
heels.
Shock Skyscrapers
Within twenty PAGES of the moving
squad the two men halted and the
smaller raised a hand ia when was
clasped smoking bomb Even as he
drew back his arm 20 throw the wealr
on IL exploded The shock that shook
The skyscrapers threw a score of peo
pie to the ground
The assassin and his companion
fell the latter dead with his breast
torn out The bomb thrower sim
lived, but his right hand had. been
shot OF, both OF his eyes We're g0uged
out and his skull and shoulder WIS
fractured
The four policemen who brought dp
the rear We're injured. but not seri-
ously, one OF them being hit in the
foot by a piece of Tie bomb
A panic followed the explosion and
the thousands that surrounded the
park crushed together az perhaps half
OF the number rushed toward the scene
OF ine killing. while as many more
turned in flight from the square Many