The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-07-28
Troops Are Rushed From
Madrid to Check the Revolt
! Which Is Most Threatening
Outbreak Yet.
DYNAMITE USED FOR
/ WRECKING PROPERTY
Strikers, Incensed Over the
Moroccan War, Were Fur
ther Angered Today by Ar
rival Of Troops.
BULLETIN.
fAmerican News Service,

BULLETIN.
(American News Service)
. Madrid, July 2S-All trains attempt
Ing to leave Barcelona today we're at
tackled by rioters and the passense4ai /
swere driven out and attacked. Several
Of the passengers were killed. The !
krains were completely wrecked. The
lGituation Is regarded as revolutionary. |
1T is estimated that more than one
hundred persons have been killed in |
Barcelona in the last twenty hours.
(American News Service)
Madrid. July 28.-The city Of Bar
icelona, riot stricken and torn with in
discriminate dynamiting is in the
Hands Of the government and civil
rious outbreak yet occurring. Furious
mobs swept through the streets dynar
uniting church buildings and bridges
lhe6ore the troops and police could get
them under control. Additional troops
were rushed to the turbulent city to-
day by the government.
The monastery at Pueblo Huevo was
dynamited and one monk was killed
and others injured. Railroad cars
were burned or blown to pieces. The
Bridges OF the Tarragone railroad out
Dide the city were dynamited while the
rioterg melted by their own violence
drove back the police who tried to In
ferfera
Police Are Wounded.
The latest casualties are three riot
ers KILLED. fifty wounded and 40 in
HAIL. Thirty police officers have been
wounded, some OF them seriously.
The situation, already grave, reached
the climax today. With the inpouring
OF armed men to reinforce the civil
guards, the people became restive and
those who had taken part In the riot
ing tried once again to incite the law
less characters to further action.
Tho strikers angry at the govern
mnsnt on account Of the Moroccan war
Msre further incensed today by the ar
rival Of additional troops to quell dis
kalrbanceA With the troops encamped
pn the streets and public squares and
ready to put down uprisings with
hlooddyed, n necessary, the feeling was
INTENSE Bands OF idle men who gath
Iered In the streets were dispersed by
the troops, and there were loud NUT
Hsrings Of fufther warfare.
Rails Are Torn Up.
Some Of the streets look as though
they had been visited by an earth
lQuahe. The street car rails have been
torn up, demolished cars strew the
thoroughfares and the debris from par
tiaNy destroyed buildings obstruct the
passageways. Shops are closed and
many Of the residents fear, to venture
From their homes.
BY the cutting of the telegraph wires
connecting Barcelona with Madrid 1t
Mas impossible for time to learn the
the city by the rioters. The latest
report stated that bands Of strikers
visited manufactures where men were
still at work compelling them to quit
under penalty Of injury
Martial law at Tarragona and Ger
pna In addition to Barcelona today is
khe only thing which has kept the sit
nation In hand.
Increased Alarm.
A dispatch was received from Melil-
d today that Cen Pinto and several
Of his officers had been killed in the
Fighting outside the city. This dis
batch was followed by others coming
from Barcelona begging aid. thus in
creasing the alarm over the situation
ut home and abroad. Food is giving
out and the remaining supply is sold
~ M ho q
among the poor is acute.
Couriers arrived at the capital to
day from Barcelona that they might
try to give by word of mouth a de
scription OF the horrifying aspect oi
the city. During the rioting stores
and shops were looted and merchan
disc and foodstuffs piled in the
streets where the torch was applied
Now the sufferers are glad enough te
dig among the ashes fighting amons
themselves for charred and mould,
scraps to save them from starvation
Flasks OF wine We're rolled into the
streets, the heads Knocked in ant
emptied Sober. the rioters were vic
Dent, but drunk they became ferocious
Banks Are Looted.
II is reported that banks we're loot
ed although the civil authorities ant
soldiers were posted about these and
public buildings. endcavoring to saw
them.
st. Panl's church near Barcelon,
vas burned and the parochial schoo
building dynamited. In vain did thu
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