The newspapers end up responding to the incident as if it had been a worker's riot.
At first, the protest was peaceful, with many speakers that were asking for more rights for the laborers of Chicago. The problem came with the actions of someone, it is not clear even today who, bombed the place with dynamite to attack the protest or to prevent the meeting from happening as planned.
In the end, it was all reported as a riot that was influenced by anarchists. They seemed to be very afraid of an anarchist revolution to the point that the newspapers ended up making a lot of money for reporting the events in that way because everybody wanted to be informed about "the anarchists and what they did or wanted".