Arizona republican., 1911-01-04
THE HEART /.
 0F LONDON The Scene of a Battle
 With Anarchists
 WHO FOUGHT ID DEATH
After Withstanding an As
 sault by the Police and Military for Hours They Were Cremated by the Flames of Their Fortress.

London. Jan 3-All London has been stirred by a baule between an-
 archists on one side and hundreds of
 police. infantry and artillerymen on the other. How many anarchists were in
 the band that took part in the engage
 ment. which was fought in and around a barricaded house in Sidney street. in
 the East End is not definitely known. After a search of the debris of the
 burned structure. portions of only two
 bodies have been discovered. They con
 sist of the trunk and part of the head of one man, and few charred bones of another. It is the opinion of some that
 two desperados along for many hours
 held the police and militia at bay.
 Thousands Hooking from all parts of London. witnessed the spectacle of a steady rain of bullets. flashes of fire and smoke pouring from the windows, the house in flames and finally the men on the roof. shouting defiance and fall
 ing into the seething furnace below. A police sergeant searching for burg
 lars who a few nights ago murdered four policemen. was recOnnOitering around the Sydney street house in the early hours of the morning Suddenly shot was fired and the sergeant fell with bullet in lung. A call for the police was sounded and the entire ..s ,.h.osrhoOd was cordoned
 [ Persons were driven from their houses and the battle began between those fOrtressed in the house and the police. The Scots guards from the tower were hastily despatched to the scene and later a battery of artillery with Gatling guns came at double quick. Their pieces were placed in po- sition. but did not open fire. \ steady stream of bullfts played between the contending forces.
 The guardsmen took mp sheltered pO- Isitions. firing volley after volley into the house. Piles of straw were cast in all directions and lighted in the hope that the desperadoes would be smoked out At last sparks were observed shooting from the windows accom- panied by clouds of smoke and here and there flames. The firemen stretched hose and threw water on the adjoining structures. They soon directed the stronghold of the desperadoes. which was now burning fiercely
 Driven from the lower floors. the anarchists made their way to the roof. where it seemed to the watching thou sands that several forms could be seen through the smoke. The roof collapsed and with it went the men.
 Not since the news of the British dis asters at the opening of the South Af- rican campaign has the country been so aroused as by today's scenes. News | papers call loudly for more effective means of dealing with the growing ter TOTS of alien immigration, no doubt be- ing held that the desperadoes who fell today were anarchists. A search of the besieged house after the ruins had been cooled a little. revealed in a cup board a large number of what appeared to be unfinished metal dynamite l bombs.
 Two families who occupied the lower | floors and were withdrawn by the po- lice before the fighting began, pro fessed to know nothing as to how the | desperadoes gained access. The latter appeared to have been in rooms rent | ed by a Russian woman. Bessie Ger | shon. who is now under arrest. with | other suspects against whom. however. | no charge has been made.
 The police officials shovel aggra- \ vation at the calling out of the sol | diers. They expressed confidence that | they could have handled the affair | without the help of the militia. The | last occasion on which the militia was | SO employed was at the time of the ] Trafalgar square riots when John Burns was arrested. Even then the soldiers did not fire. It is difficult to establish the identity of the dead des peradoes. but. according to reports. it is practically certain that one is Dutch Fritz and that the other is not Peter the Painter" for whom the police are still searching.