New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1854-08-16
Great Riot In SC. Louis--Loss of Lifs-The
Military Called Out.

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In the st. Louis papers of the 9Th instant we
find the particulars of terrible riot which oc-
CURED in that city on the day previous, pro-
dueed by the excitement attending the election,
and resulting in the destruction of property and
loss Of life. The row, it appears, commenced at
the Fifth Ward polls, between the natives and
Irish, pretty much in the same manner that
one did at the Seventh Precinct in this city.
Pistols and knives were resorted to, and several
persons were wounded. At length boy was
stabbed by an Irishman, who Immediately fed
down Green street, pursued by an Infatuated
crowd. @
The Democrat gives what appears to us an
es parte account of the affair, throwing the
blame altogether upon the natives, and attrib-
uting the cause of the riot to certain publica-
tons in Wing paper of the city. Yet from its
own statement we gather that the foreigners
were most active in promoting it and carrying
1t on until overpowered and dispersed The
Democrat says:
Wherever an Irishman was seen on the street
he was pursued and most cruelty beaten.
Finally pursuit of one was made down Morgan
street, where the mob were met by number of
Hibernians, who gave battle by throwing stones
and firing pistols, but the crowd Of rioters in
creasing, they gave way and retreated to their
houses between Main and the Levee on Morgan
Here for while the mob was scene of the
widest excitement The Irish fred as many,
perhaps, as hundred pistol shots in the crowd
who were breaking in the doors and windows of
the houses by showers Of stones from the street.
| At last the shooting was silenced and the mob
proceeded down to the Levee and along it to
Locust street, assailing every oofee-house or
| tenement supposed to contain foreigners, with a
continued storm OF missiles.
After this the Irish made another stand on
Second street, but were driven down past
Cherry, the mob still continuing their assault
i upon the houses and windows.
| They then proceeded up Morgan and Green
streets, above Fourth, and assailed number of
houses, completely Kidding the doors and win
dows with stones and brickbats During the
evening slight assault had been made on the
office Of the Anzeiger Des Westerns, but the party
were dispersed without much injury. In the
mean time the military and police were out in
full force, scattering the excited combatants
here and there, and doing much to restore quiet
1 to the city, About 10 o'clock at night, how
ever, o company of the rioters, numbering per-
haps twenty, came marching down Third street
from the scene of assault up on Morgan street,
with stones in hand, and shouting in the wild
est manner; and upon arriving in front of the
| Anzeiger office, again commenced an assault
upon the windows and doors of the house. At
this juncture the military came charging upon
the crowd again, and dispersed the mob. When
| we left the scene, quiet seemed to be in very
fair way Of being restored the military having
complete possession Of the street, and seeming
determined to enforce order.
ssIt is utterly impossible to estimate the num-
Der of persons wounded in the whole affair, or
even to say how many have been killed. We
saw at least twenty men lying bleeding and
wounded so severely that they were perfectly
insensible, their faces cut most horribly, and
skulls mashed, and some appearing perfectly
dead; and then we have learned Of three men
certainly killed, and five or six more who are
thought to be dead at this time from wounds
received. - ...s+
It is o wonder to US, when we remember the
number Of shots fred and the exposed position
Of the mob, that there were not double the per-
sons killed and wounded. A man by the mamie
of Shannon was stabbed in the back Of the neck,
from which he very probably died last night.
A hand from the steamer Henry Chouteau was
killed instantly, and man by the name Of Joe
or Frank Freeman was shot through the heart,
and fell dead without uttering word. He
was standing near o lumber pile at the foot OF
Morgan street, on the levee, with his arms
folded, watching the ARRAY without OF all par
ticipating, when he received the fatal shot from
the window of house on Battle Row.
We hear Of one man being shot in the leg,
another in the hand, one in the abdomen and
another in the shoulder. We cannot pretend
to give correct statement either of the number
killed and wounded, or the true origin and con-
tinuanee of the mob. The immense excitement
throughout the whole city prevented the pro-
curement Of any reliable account Of the distur-
bance.