Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1887 — THE HAYMARKET HORROR. [ARTICLE]

THE HAYMARKET HORROR.

One Year Has Passed Since the Bomb Did Its Bloody Work. List of the Brave Officers Who Laid Down Their Lives to Throttle Anarchy. fChicago special.] The first anniversary of the event which will be known to history as the Haymarket massacre occurred on Wednesday last. The night of May 4, 1886, six companies of police, numbering 175 men, under command of Inspector John Bonfield and Capt. Ward, marched from the Desplaines Street Police Station up Desplaines street to a point a short distance north of Randolph street, and there halted. A socialists’ meeting was in progress on she street, and several fire-eating anarchists were doing their utmost to incite the people to a riot. Capt. Ward formally ordered the crowd “in the name of the people of the State of Illinois to quietly and peaceably disperse” Samuel Fielden, the anarchist who was then making a speech, replied, “We are peaceable,” and at the same instant a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of the police. Instantly upon the explosion of the bomb, and before the police force had a chance to rally, a fusillade of revolver shots was poured into the police from both sides of the street. The police immediately rallied and returned the fire, and the mob fled with the police in hot pursuit. When the smoke of battle had cleared away the ground was found to be covered with wounded and dying policemen, stricken down by the deadly bomb. One officer died almost immediately and sixtysix others were wounded, six of whom died within the next week or two from the effect of their wounds. There was also one civilian found killed on the spot and about twenty others wounded, but aS the wounded socialists were mostly hidden away, the tothl casualties resulting from the battle will never be known. At least twelve, and. probably over twenty, lives were lost, and over 100 people seriously injured. Following are tie names of the policemen injured, classified as fatally injured, permanently disabled, and seriously disabled, still unfit for duty. FATALLY INJURED—7. Matlfiaa J. Began, Michael Sheehan, George Miller, Nels Hansen, John J. Barrett, Thomas Redden, Timothy Fiavihan. PERMANENTLY DISABLED— II. Michael O’Brien, Lawrence J. Murphv, Thomas McEnery, Adam Barber, Jacob Hanson, Patrick McNulty, Charles W. Whitney, John F. McMahon, Nich. J. Shannon, Jr., Daniel Hogan, Patrick Hartford. SERIOUSLY INJURED AND STILL UNFIT FOB DUTY— I 2. August C. Keller, Joseph Norman, John E.,Doyle, Peter Butterly, John H. King, Alexander Jamieson, Arthur Connelly, Charles H. Fink, James A. Brady, Edward Barrett, Timothy Sullivan, Henry F. Smith. But though the bomb did all the work expected of it, the results were not what the anarchists anticipated. The police, instead of running away, rallied and charged the mob, and drove , the conspirators to their holes, utterly routing them at the first onset. Numerous arrests followed, and the whole conspiracy was laid bare. June 21 eight of the leading conspirators—Spies,. Parsons, Fischer, Engel, Lingg, Schwab, Fielden, and Neebe—were placed oh trial before Judge Gary, and the next twentyone days were consumed in securing a jury. The . details of the trial are fresh in the minds of all. It lasted about two months, and resulted in a verdict condemning seven of the prisoners to death, and the eighth, Neebe, to fifteen, years’ penal servitude. Motions in support of a new trial have since been argued before the State Supreme Court, and the case is still pending. The decision of the Supreme Court is not expected until September, and the general impression of all who heard the arguments at Ottawa was that the motions will be refused. That verdict was the death-blow to anarchy in this country. It is a warning that anarchy has no resting-place here, and. that Johann Most and all his criminal associates and befooled followers the moment they begin to put their thedries into effect stand beneath the shadow of tho gallows.