. Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives . e, they were obligedto turn upon them. The police fought like tigers, and,inch by inch, forced the ugly fellows back towards thebuilding. Fortunately, a block and a half west from thescene of conflict, near the station, and in wagons, werenearly a score of police who had been sent from the Cen-tral Station, and were awaiting orders. As soon as theywere apprised of the desperate condition of their comrades,there was never a quicker charge made. At them theywent like a prize crowd at Donnybrook, and clubbed andsmashed anybody and everybody before t
. Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives . e, they were obligedto turn upon them. The police fought like tigers, and,inch by inch, forced the ugly fellows back towards thebuilding. Fortunately, a block and a half west from thescene of conflict, near the station, and in wagons, werenearly a score of police who had been sent from the Cen-tral Station, and were awaiting orders. As soon as theywere apprised of the desperate condition of their comrades,there was never a quicker charge made. At them theywent like a prize crowd at Donnybrook, and clubbed andsmashed anybody and everybody before them, until theyhad formed a junction with the other party of police, wheuthe main crowd, with yells of pain and rage, broke and Hedin all directions. Then the combined force fought theirway more fiercely than ever through the dense masseswedged into the vestibule and upon the stairways, pitchingmen bodily out into the street, or hnrling them down thestairs, until the main auditorium was reached, when a scenetranspired that beggars THE END. 399 Here was found a panic-stricken mob of perhaps twohundred persons, the larger portion of whom had takenrefuge within, when the attack upon them by the police inthe street had become too severe. But the officers kept atthem with a vigor and enthusiasm beautiful and wonderfulto behold. Many rioters climbed columns, like monkeys,and hid in the galleries ; others secreted themselves beneaththe stage, and among the wings and flies of thescenery ; others jumped from the windows at the risk ofbroken limbs, and still others, too hotly pressed to escape,seized chairs, converting tbem into weapons of defensewhich they handled with the power of desperation ; but nomercy was shown, and the clubbing went on until tliegreat hall was cleared, and tbe mob had got the first taste ofwliat was freely distributed in Chicago throughout the en-tire day. CHAPTER XXXIII. THE END. DuEiNa the Turner Hall fight another conflict was inprogress on Halst
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