Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1913-07-24

busiest night corner of the city. The
cart was broken to splinters in a mo-
ment and the big stock of socialist
papers and magazines torn to shreds
and jumped upon
The mob then rushed To a store
room occupied until recently by the In
dustrial Workers of the World at Fifth
avenue, near Stewart. The wreckers
found the place deserted, the tenants
having moved. They then proceeded to
the socialist headquarters on Fifth ave
nue., near Stewart. smashed in the plate
glass front and nailed American flags
on the front of the building Two POI
lfcemen smiled complacently on the
wreckers. They first tore the signs
from the front of the building and
broke them to pieces and then started
to break the furniture and throw the
books into the street, but the police
men stopped them.
Salvation Army Suffers.
The door leading into a larger anoi
lighter room was broken open. A
burly sailor dashed into the room
hurled an organ off a platform. then
Selling heavy chair, proceeded to
demoltsh the organ. Other men in uni :
form smashed chairs, broke benchen'
and worked have, One of the men
tearing down a motto God Is Love. y
from the wall, started back and said :.
A1Oyots VIC iE ill VIOHS. "A sign tina
mad been stamped under foot read.
God so loved the world that He gave
HIS only begotten SON. Some of these.
sailors shouted to their comrades tc
stop smashing and word was passed
sthat the place was a Salvation army
meeting rooY,s Some of the sailors
refused to st6l their demolition of the
furniture, saying: What is the differ
ence? Half a dozen policemen, aided
by some of the sailors. cleared the
building of the Wreckers, but not until
much damage had been done. The mob
marched toward Pioneer square. which
was fun of potlatch merrymakers.
Dispersed BY Police.
There We're demands that the in
dustrial workers be hunted down, and
a young civilian in a white suit,
tried to induce the party to go to the
Headquarters of the moderate social
lists in an old church on Olive street,
near Seventh. Another self appoint
ed leader red the, party toward the
Old Unitarian church on Seventh ave
nue., near Union street, which had
just been vacated by the moderates.
As the naval men We're crossing Pike
street to Sixth they We're overhauled
by an automobile full of policemen.
the sailors that if they did not dis
perse he would arrest every one of
them. The policemen, by maneuNering.
separated the men in uniform and
scattered them. No handling of them
was necessary. The men shouted to
the police: our may or won't do
anything to protect the flag, so we.
are saving Your city
A young civilian, who had been en-
deavoTing to incite the sailors. kept
shouting to them to Ego and get
Mayor Cotterill." No arrests were
made.
Wreck Socialist Office.
After the police had dispersed the
small group of sailors. marines and
young civilians at Sixth and Uni
versity streets. the men moved back
to Fourth avenue and West Lake, re-
ceived large reinforcements from the
fleet and the nefghboring saloons and
the street crowds and moved north
to the red socialists headquarters or
the west side of Fifth avenue, which
they demolished, burning all furniture
and literature. Some one shouted that
there was socialist headquarters In
an old church on Olive street and the
mob was soon running thither. The
church was broken into and sacked,
the books and furniture being dragged
into the street and burned.
The mob turned back to West Lake
avenue, and, after some false starts,
reached the alley leading north from
street west of First ave-
nue. south. The leaders OF the mob,
uniformed men of the feet broke up
packing boxes in the alley and smashed
in the alley doors of building that
contained numerous chairs and which.
to the sailors. seemed to be a nest of
Industrial workers. AS the men plunged
into the building. slightly below the
alley level, the lights were turned out.
but matches were lighted and the sail