Demoine courier., 1854-08-17
From the st. Louis Democrat. 9Th.
Great MOb---IntenSe Excitement
Several Of our Citizens Killed, and
Number X0undedi

UlCOt MO~U---lNteuSc EAClJtHltut--
Several Of our Citizens Killed, AM
Number Wounded
Our city, on Yesterday afternoon, ant
up TO late hour last night, was ih,
ihea,er Of one of the largest and mos
disgraceful mobs hat ever tr~anspired il
the Western country. 4, originated
about2 o'clock in the afternoon a, the
Polls Of the Fifth ward, between a party
who called themselves Americans, and
a number of Irish. who had gathered
around The Engine House.
Tie figh, at frs, was a general one,
which was followed by slight skir,nish
ing all. along Third stree, between Vine
street and franklin avenue, serving very
much 10 increase the excitemen, and
draw together a large crowd.
Wherever an Inshn AL was seen on
the stree, he was pursued and most
cruelty bealen. Finally pursuit of one
was made down Morgan street where
the mob were met by a number Of Hi.
Dernians who gave battle By throwing
stones and firing pistols, bu, the crowd
Of rioters increasing they gave way and
retreaied to their houses between Main
and the Levee on Morgan. Here for a
while the mob was a scene Of the wild.
? est excitement. The Irish fred as manv
perhaps as a hundred pistol shots into
the crowd who were breaking in the
doors aud windows Of tho house by
showers of stones from the street. A,
last the shooting was silenced and the
mob proceeded down TO the Levee anc
along ii 10 Locus, street., assailing every
coffee house or tenement supposed TO
contuin foreigners, with a continued
storm Of missiles.
After this the Irish made another stand
ON Second street bu, were driven down
pas, Cherry, tie mob still continuing
their assault, upon the houses and win.
dows,
They then proceeded up Morgan and
Green streets, above Fourth, and assaulted
q number Of houses, completely Kidding
the doors and windows with stones and
brickbais. During the evening a Sigh,
assault had been made on the Office OF
the Anzeiger Des Westerns, but the
party were dispersed without much in
Jury, In The meantime the military and
!, police were out in full force, scattering
the excited combatants here and there,
ard doing much to restore quiet to he
city. About 10 O'Clock alright, howev.
er. a company Of the rioters, numbering
perhaps 90, came marching down Third
Street from the scene Of assault up on
Morgan with stones in hand, and shout
ing ia the widest manner. and upon ar
irving in tie front Of the Anzeicer office
again commenced an assault, upon The
windows and doofs Of the house. At
this junc'ure he military came charging
upon The crowd again, and dispersed the
mob. When we lef. the scene quiet
seemed 10 be in a very fair way Of being
restored. The military having complete
possession Of the street. and seeming
determined TO enforce order.
l. is utterly impossible TO estimate The
number Of persons wounded in The whole
affair, or even 10 say how many have
been killed. We saw at leas, twenty
men lying bleeding, and wounded so
severely that they were perfectly insen.
sible-thelr faces Gu, most horribly, and
skulls mashed, aud some appearing per-
fecly dead: and then we have learned OF
three men certainly killed. and of five or
elk more who are though. to be dead at
Ntais time from wounds received.
IL IL a wonder to US, when we remem.
her the number of shots fred and the
exposed position Of the mob. there were
not double the persons Killed and wound.
' ed. A man by The name of Shannon
was stabbed in the back of The neck
) from which he very probably died last
night. A hand from the steamer Henry
Chouieau was killed instantly. and a
man by the name OF Joe or Frank Free
men was sho, through the heart, and fell
dead without uilering a word. He was
standing near a lumber pile at the foot
OF Morgan street, on the levee, with his
arms folded watching the aHray without
at all participating when he received the
fatal shot from the window OF a house
on Battle Row. He has long been in
the employ Of Capt Warren, Of the
canal boat Burlington, as steersman, anG
has been known in New York as a
canal boatman. We understand he has
. . brother living up the Missouri river
His fate 10 q sad one.
W. hear OF one man being shot in The
leg, another in tie hand, n in the abdo
men and another in The shoulder. We
cannot pretend to give a correct staiemen
either OF the Number killed and wounded
or the true origin and continuance OF the
mob. Theimmsnse excitement through
out the whole city prevented the pro
curement Of any reliable account Of the
disturbance.
WEDNESDAY MORNING.
The riots continued in different parts