Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1891 — WAS SIMPLY A MASSACRE. [ARTICLE]

WAS SIMPLY A MASSACRE.

France Aroused Over the Terrible Slaughter of a Mob by Troops at Fourmies. .1 The details of the labor troubles at Fourmies, France, immensely heighten the political importance of the incident. Thb fact that six women, several children and sight men were killed on the spot, while twenty more were seriously wounded, Several fatally, gives the affair the character of a massacre. The soldiers were merely exposed to stone throwing, but they replied with successive volleys-Yrem their new rifles, inflicting frightful wounds on their victims. The houses exposed to thq fire were riddled, and there is every sign that reckless and wanton inhumanity was shown [by the troops. The local popular zommotiou is intense, and it finds a re--sponse in the growing excitement in every working 7 center! Fourmies is practically :n a state of siege. Cavalry patrol the streets, and are every where greeted with yells of reprobation from excited groups of men and women.* The tension of feeling may be judged from the fact that the military are hailed with cries of/‘Vive Prussir.” The funeral of the victims xvas fixed for the 4th, but the enormous number of workmen arriving from other industrial centers caused the government to send for reinforcements and to order the postponement of the funeral until the sth. The Prefect Sunday refused to receive a deputation asking for the removal of the regiment that fired on the crowd.