38 ANDREW J. SHIPMAN MEMORIAL 



houses simultaneously at remote distances from one another. 

 During the night the King and ministry, who were communi- 

 cated with by cable — for all telegraph lines were cut — sus- 

 pended the constitutional guaranties, leaving the city and 

 province in an actual state of war. All day on the 28th the 

 burning, looting, and destruction of churches, convents, and 

 schools went on ; but by nightfall the troops had broken a few 

 of the barricades and begun to subdue some sections of the 

 rioters. On Thursday (the 29th) they had the rioting under 

 control and the revolt was crushed. On Friday the roving 

 bands of anarchists, rioters, and idlers were entirely stopped, 

 and the next day street trafific began again. 



It is sickening to tell of the savagery of the mob. Even the 

 dead nuns were dragged from their coffins, and paraded with 

 revolting and obscene orgies, and then thrown into the gutters. 

 Clerical teachers in the schools were stripped, tortured, and 

 shot. Even little children were not spared. Churches that 

 had stood as monuments from the days of the Crusades were 

 destroyed ; while everything valuable was plundered from 

 them and from schools and religious houses. They even stole 

 the clothes and petty jewelry of the girls in the boarding- 

 schools. 



It has been alleged that the rioters were incensed against 

 the religious orders because they manufactured goods and 

 sold them cheaply, thus depriving workmen of possible em- 

 ployment. As a matter of fact, no attacks were made on any 

 of the working orders, for there are none within the city of 

 Barcelona ; but the anarchists confined themselves chiefly to 

 churches, schools, and convents of women, all of which were 

 an easy prey. If it had any element of a movement in favor 

 of enlargement of popular education, it had a singular result. 

 These are some of the educational institutions destroyed and 

 the number of pupils that were being educated in them : 

 Pious schools (escolapios), 500 scholars, 200 of them free; 

 San Andres Asylum, 150 workingmen's children, free; Asy- 

 lum-Nursery of the Holy Family, kindergarten for 80 children 

 and 5(X) girls, free ; College of St. Peter, 400 scholars, day and 

 night schools, free; Convent of Loreto, 150 girls, boarders; 

 Franciscan Nuns, 150 girls, free: Immaculate Conception, 250 

 girls, boarders ; Girls' College of Salesian Sisters, 300 stu- 

 dents, 70 night students, free; Convent of the Adoration, 80 



