A Lively Place to Live in.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4400, 9 February 1883, Page 3

A Lively Place to Live in.

BIOTS IN VIENNA. — EXCITING

SCENES.

On the night of November 8 disturbances took place in a suburb of the city where the lowest classes live in wretched ■houses, and where thieres and criminals are known to seek refuse. The old fortifications there are still untouched,' and served as hiding places, for the thousands who from their safe position in the trenohes thirty feet below the street level, pelted the police and soldiers with stones of all siizes. The crowds in the street were again driven forward by the police and the Uhlans on horseback, who with their swords and lances wounded many persons. Suddenly the crowds to escape the horses turned into a bye street which leads direct into the trenches'. Here the soldiers were pelted with Btones thrown from the windows. Great numbers of the crowd in front fell head foremost into the trenches. The soldiers enrrged by tbe insults of the people, continually made use of their arms, so that loud yells of pain were mixed with the terrible noi?e made by the drunken rioters. These disgraceful .scenes lasted several hours. As soon as the soldiers had cleared one street crowds re-assembled in another. It is impossible to say how many persons were injured, the bulk having returned to their homes. Many were found prostrate in the trenches' by the patrols, who went in search of them as late as midnight. Several of the police were badly hurt. One Uhlan was dragged from his horse and bad his legs broken. The crowd did not make use of arms, fists and stones being its only means of aggression. The military commander this afternoon visited the threatened streets, and arranged were soldiers were to be placed. At .six o'clock patrols began to march through the streets, and the shops and private houses were closed in great haste. A terrible storm is raging, which it is hoped will send home the rioters. Two fires broke out an hour ago in the street where the people first assembled. The fire engine driving through tbe crowded streets added to tbe general confusion. Yesterday eighty-seven persons were arrested in all. Up to this hour eight hundred workpeople have assembled in a west» era borough, where heavy iron bars have been distributed among the lowest classes. Yesterday, one workman remarked, " We were beaten to day, but we will persevere qntil ,we are masters." Of the many bills taken down from the gas lamps and walls several bore the inscription, " Down with the Jews." This morning the excitement was renewed by the sight of several pools of blood in the streets, which spoke of last night's doings, and were always surrounded by knots of people. Tbe police gave orders to day that all the doors in the streets where the riots took place are to be closed at six instead of ten. It must be understood that these demonstrations are hot doe to any strike, but are owing to increased ditties, which makes it harder for many to obtain the necessaries of life. In another suburb there is great excite ment on account of the election of a disreputable Democrat for (he Reichsr»tb. A large number of cavalry and infantry are patrolling the streets, filling even the pavements. The Üblana with their lances, and the soldiers with their bayonets, drive every passer-by into the adjacent streets.