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Show HERS ATM ITALIAOLDIERS AS RESULT OF CLASH EIGHT ARE DEAD AND FORTY PERSONS WOUNDED. Mob Aattacks Garrison, Stops Railway Traffic, Burns Prisons, Frees Criminals and Holds Police and Soldiers at Bay. Rome. Eight persons are dead and forty-two other are known to have been wounded as a result of the wild rioting at Mantua, where mobs terrorized ter-rorized the city. The rioters attacked the small garrison, gar-rison, cut telegraph and telephone communication, stopped railway traffic, traf-fic, raided anus shops, burned prisons, freeing all sorts of criminals, and held the police and soldiers at bay until fresh troops and carbiniers arrived with machine guns and occupied the city militarily. The troops finally established es-tablished order Thursday night. The Giornale DTtalia says the Mantua Man-tua chamber of labor authorized a strike without excesses. The disorders, disor-ders, were begun by 500 strikers, who speedily were joined by the lawless element under the direction of extremists. ex-tremists. The crowds stormed the military barracks and fired on the garrison. The soldiers discouraged the attack by firing into the air. At the suggestion of some of the extremist leaders the mob moved on to the railway station, and seized the restaurant, where they feasted and drank wine. Those of the rioters unable to enter the restaurant vere incensed when the men inside poured wine upon the floor until it flowed into the street. The rails were torn up to prevent trains from entering or leaving the station and the building itself was badly wrecked. At the suggestion "let us burn the jails and free the prisoners," pris-oners," the niob moved to the prisons, overcame the guards and ordered the prisoners out, telling them a revolution had come and they were free. The men released were all being held for common crimes. Those unable un-able to obtain civilian clothing turned their striped uniforms inside out. They were given arms seized from soldiers or taken from the looted arms shops. The proprietor of one of the arms shops raided by the niob took refuge in a room behind the shop and was burned to death in the fire the mob set after taking all the guns in the store. |