Monongalia mirror. [volume] (Morgantown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1855, 1854-08-19
ELECTION RIOT IN ST. LOUIS,
Several Persons Etlled.--A Large Rcnser
Wounded...The Military Called Out.

ton riot occurred i'll st, Louis on Mou'
day last. We yesterday received the
St. Louis Democrat, containg the an
nexod particulars of the bloody affair !
1t originated about Q o'clock in the
afternoon at tho polls Of the fifth ward,
between u party who called themselves
Americans and number Of Irish who
had gathered around the engine house,
The fight was general one, which was
followed by slight skirmishing all along
Third street between Vine street and
Franklin avenue, serving very much to
increase the excitement aud draw to-
gether large crowd,
Wherever IN Irishman was seon on
the street he was pursued and most cru
ely beaten. Finally pursuit Of one was
nude down Morgan street, where the
mob were met by number Of Hiber.
mans, who gave battle by throwing
stones and firing pistols. but the crowd
Of rioters increasing they gave way and
retrcated to their houses between Main
and the Leyee on Morgan. Here. for
a while, the mob was scene Of tho
widest excitement. The Irish fred as
many perhaps as hundred pistol shots
into 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, aud the
mob proceeded down to the levee, and
along it to Locuststseet, assailing every
coffee house or tenement supposed TO
contain foreigners with continued storm
Of missiles. "s"r #v.
After this tho Irish made another
stand on second street, but were driven
down past Cherry, the mob still ccntiu.
uing their assault upon the houses and
windows. They then proceeded up
Morganand Greenstreets, above Fourth,
and assaied number Of houses. com.
ple,ely Kidding the doors and windows
with stones and brickbats. Daring the
evening Sigh, assault had been made
on the Office of Anzeiger Des Yves.
tens, but the party were dispersed with
out much injury. In the meantime the
military and police were out in full
force, scattering the excited combattants.
here and there, and doing much 10 re-
store quiet to the city. About 10 o'clock
at night, however, company of the
rioters, numbering perhaps twenty,
came marching down Third street from
the scene Of assault up on Morgun,with
stones in hand, and shouting in the wild.
est manner, and upon arriving in front
Of the Anzeiger Office again commenced
on assault upon the windows and doors
of the house. At this juncture the mil.
i,ary came charging upon the crowd a.
gain, and dispersed the mob. When
we left the scene, quiet seemed to be in
very fair way Of being restored, tho
military having complete possession Of
the street, aud seeming determined to
enforce order. gt g7H
Ii is utterly impossible to estimate
the number Of persons wounded in the
whole affair, or even to say how many
have been killed We saw at least 20
men lying bleeding and wounded SO Sc
verely ,ha, they were perfectly insensi.
blc-thcir faces cut most horribly and
skulls mashed, and some appearing per.
fectly dead; aud then we have learned
of three men certainly killed. and Of
FIVE or six more who are though. TO be
dead at this time from wounds received.
tits wonder to US, when we remem.
Der the number of shots fired and the
exposed position Of the mob, that there
we're not double the persons killed aud
wounded. A man by the name OF Shan.
non was stabbed in the back Of the
neck, from which he very probably died
| last night A hand from the steamer
Henry Chou,eau was killed. instantly,
and man by the l. eme of Joe or Frank
Freeman was shot through the heart,
and fell dead without uttering word.
He was standing near a lumber pile at
the foot of Morgan street, on the levee,
with his arms folded, watching the atiray
without at all participating, when no re.
ceived the fatal shot from tho window
of house on Battle Row. .l
We hear Of one man being shot in
the leg. ano,herin the hand. one in the
abdomen aud another in the shoulder
We cannot pretend to give correc,
statement either Of the number killed
and wounded, or the true oligin and
continuance of,he mob. The immense
excitement throughout the whole city
prevented the procurement of any re.
liable account Of the disturbance. 0
Tho St. Louis Intelligencer says tho
riot originated from an freshman stab.
bling an American at the fifth ward polls.
He was pursued for several squares
and arrested, and to prevent rescue
by the mob, was Immediately conveyed
to jail. During the riot Jackson Fow.
Ter and james Russell. one mate and
the other pilot, were shot, the former
in the side and the latter in the arm.-
{ Ten arrests were made. Every Irish
grocery on Morgan aud Green streets,
Iov,a,j;r1 ,vest from Rroadwnv mo.