[Vynne, Harold Richard] [from old catalog] · Chicago, Thomson and Zimmerman · leaf 199
of 1871.It stands as a mark ofthat awful night, May4, 1886, when themouthines of the anarchists culminated in thehurling of a bomb—the only bomb ever thrownin America—into a squad of police, of whom sevenwere killed and sixty-six laid low with awfulwounds. While looking at this monument, the figure… … 195 wounded were carried, that of a hospital. Thinkover it all, as you gaze at the monument, and tryto realize the importance of the bloody epochwhich it typifies. May day of that year had been fixed upon as theproper time to inaugurate the eight hour move-ment. Prior to that date the anarchists…
