Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1854-08-16
~h st. Louis

A disgracefuie eAt at st. Louis, between thsI
Irish and KDow-Nothngs, occurred on election
day. We clip the following from the st. Louis
Democrat.
Our city yesterday afternoon, and up to late
hour last right, was the theatre Of one OF the
largest and most disgraceiul mobs that ever tran
spred in the Western country. II originated
about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, at the poles in
the Fifth Ward, between a party who called
themselves Americans, and a number OF Irish,
who had gathered around the Engine House.
The fight at first was a general one, which
was followed by slight skrmishing all along
Third street, between Vine and Franklin ave-
nue., serving very much to increase the excite
ment and draw together large crowd
Whenever an lrshman was seen on the street
he was pursued and most cruelty beaten. Final
ly, pursuit Of one was made down Morgan street.
where the mob was met by a number of Hiber-
mans, who gave battle by throwing stones and
firing PISTOLS but the crowd Of rioters increasing.
they gave way and retreated to their houses, be-
tween Main and the levee, on Morgan. Here,
for a while, the mob was the scene of the Wild
est excitement. The Irish fred as many as a
hundred pistols into the crowd, who were break
ing 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 il to Locust street,
assailing every coffec-house or tenement suppos-
ed to contain foreigners with continued storu.
Of missiles.
After this, the Irish made another stand OH
Second street, but were driven down past Cher
ry, the mob still continuing their assaults upon
the houses and windows
They then proceeded up Morgan and Green
streets, above Fourth, and assailed number of
houses. completely riddling the doors and win
dows with stones and brickbats. During the
evening slight assault had been made on the
office of Anzeiger Dos Westens, but the party
were dispersed without much injury. In the
meantime the military and police were out in
full force, scattering the excited combatants here
and there, and doing much TO restore quiet to the
city. About 10 O'Clock at night, however, a
company OF the rioters, numbering perhaps twen-
ty, came marching down Third street from the
scene OF assault upon Morgan with stones in hand,
and shouting in the widest manner, and upon ar
irving in front of the Anzeiger office, sgain COIN
menced 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 seemed determined to enforce order.
IL 10 utleTIy Impossible 10 estimate the num-
bcr 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 perfectls
dead; and then we have learned Of three men
certuinly killed, and of five or SIX more who
are thought to be dead at this time from wounds
received.
1t is wonder to US, when we remember the
number of shots fired and the exposed position of
the mob, that there were not double the persons
killed and wounded. A mun by the uame of
Shunnon was stabbed in the back of the neck.
from which he very probably died last night