The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1854-08-16
From the 81. Louis Intelligsnesr Of the ssh
BLOODY RIOT.
THREE MEN KILLED !-SEVERAL
BADLY WOUNDED!
fifty OR MORE Houses !N0BBED.

FIFTY OR MORE HOUSES NOBBED.
Our city ha. again been disgraced by one OF :
hose shameful tnmults which bring dishonor
mon the community in which hey occur One,
disturbance which has resulted in considerable
of property, and the loss OF at least
me life. has ALREADY occurred, and, al the time
e writing, the Streets ring with the ysls OF d's
,rderlv crowd, and military companies are
marching la tn. .crue of n new combat.
We have in,t returned tram surveyin. Tn
.c-nr ~ tn disturbance at this evening AS
yearly get NJ the facts, they are 'h'sr'
About five o'clock, quarrel occurred A. or near
he Firth Ward polls, in which an lr'shma"
Itabbeb an American this was the s'gnai if
general attack.
Pistols were freely used, stones few in ever.
direction. The drinking house, TN Morgan aad
Green streets and Washington avenue, and "'
he whole front of,he Levee, from Cherry stree
10 below Locust, were more T lrss injured. l."
The whole block on Morgan tree, between Nam
and the Levee, there is not, on either s'de' /"
drinking house Of which the front is not entirely
as far as IT is capable OF destruction
and, in many instances. the houses are riddied
and the furniture broke to atoms
The crowd supplied the ms, Ives with axes and
other impli,n. n,s Of the sort, irom1he steam
boats at the wharf; and with them beat in tn
shutters aud smashed the counters and every
thing that nd yield to blows. On The Levee,
between Cherry and Locust. there are only on
or two house 9. at most tina, do not bear disas
trous marks of the conflict, al l. Gust street the
damage stopped.
we could only learn With certainty Of on
death. II is rumorrd that there four or i've
killed The number of the wounded we have
no means Of estimating From the reports rife
on the SPIT, and fon the fact that hundreds "'
dschar es were heard during the course OF the
row, which ragged good iw" hours IN all ITS
fury, and has continued at intervals thus Tar
during The night il is tair TO presume that the
number is large.
We nave been able up 10 the present time L"
obtain with certain y, only the following names
Joseph Arno, or Arnold, a F-enchman, work
NJ On the canal boat +" Burlington, and just
,rriv. d irnm Chicago; killed. lac was nut in
The atf:av, ahu was shot down almost iin''e'
h,t"iy o. leaving the boat TO see what wa
ling
Jact m Fowl r, Mate; sh", in the lett side.
James Russell, p,l L; shot IN III arm.
A man wh.sr name W. did mol learn. received
!, stab in the back, under The ieti arm. IN"
point If the weapon coming out al the let
breast.
Wounded men W r. constantly b"rne up fr"m
the Levee to Broadly way, during the time at the
fight, and such terror signed in the nrighb"r
hood that the stores IN Broadway and on Fourth
for SOM distance 'wn, were closed and e.
named closed during the afternoon aud eve
ing.
The greatest excitement prevails at the time
0i writing There il a talk OH the streets Of
project to attack the College, which probably
has its origin IN the heated imaginatons of
suar terrified lrishmen. The Office OF the IA
zeigrr has already been once attacked with
stones aud, as WE write, crowds are rushing
d,wn THIRD street, in that direction, shouting
!" Bernstein BR-rnstein - The military are,
how, yer, under arms, and on the alert; and
W anticipate no iuther damage to life or pro
perty.
E:yht companies OF militia are in readiness of
which three have jus, pissed our office in fine
rder, marching towards the point nov threat
ened,-ihe Ccntincntals, the Washington
Guards, and the National Guards.
We found the Lev-e at 10 o'clock, almost
entirely deserted, except tor knots OF lr'shn~n,
who certainly manifested no riot"us disposition.
Wills, We were engaged in surveying the scene
Of desiruc,ion, shot or two fired at the dis
trace of a square from where we stood, &c. |:
these men flying along the levee like frightened
hares.
OF the origin Of the disturbance, and where
the blame lies, we shall speak more at length,
when we have gained fuller information. AT
present, we com, mt ourselves with hastily re.
cording such facts "a We have been enabled to
CLEAN As we conclude our report everything
Is quiet in the neiyhborhood of our Office.
LATER.
The militia companies have formed double
line in such a manner as effectually to protec.
the Office of the .anzeig.r, stretching across
Third near the mouth Of Chestnut and Market
streets and the alley ba.k Of the .9xzciger Office
in euch way a. 10 prevent ali access.
About ten arrests have been made. The
prisoners were lodged in the calabons-, with
the exception of the fellow with whom the
fight commenced He was subse quently re'
M we'd to the jail, as a rescue was feared. II is
said that he is an freshman, that he stabbed a
man in the crowd round the polls in the Fifth
Ward, and hen dropped his knife and ran,
he was pursued for several SQUARES and finally
caught.
As nearly as we can learn, three men al
ready dead from the effects If wounds rece,v, d
10 The riot, and two are rot expected t. survive
As we write, (midnight. J there are flying ru-
mors OF rioters gathering IN the neig hborhood
of the Collage, curner Of Ninth and Green
There has been more or less disturbance and
,larm there since the rioting began, but We
hope and belle We that the worst is past, and
hat qni-t is restored for thu night.
At one o'clock this morning, the military bad
retired, and Third street in The n~ighborhood of
he .3Mzcigcr Office was quiet, but even at that
ate hour there were small knots of The rioters
recurring the northern part Of the city, yelling
md throwing stones. Some fifty or more were
engaged tearing GU, the inside of p Bradys
loggery, corner of Morgan and Fifth SITS II
This house was mobbed early in the afternoon,
'ut the crowd returning did The work well, moi
eaving whole door or window, and not par.
icle Of furniture within. This IS the third time
within few years that houses on that corner
have been sacked.
On Morgan and Green street, ex,en ling ives,
rom Broadway, not An IRISH grscerv is left. al
e,ng tor" 10 pieces, ara the houses more
:! :, - injured. A iame row al the northwest
orner Of Fifth and Green suffered severely,
he Notwithstanding being split and torn by
tones, and all the windows and doors smashed
Al the late hour when il was deemed safe f
'ersons to pass along the riotous district. we
urned out for the purpose Of procuring list of
he houses and their location, but f,unf such
multitude on oil the streets named, that we
sesc SOHPeiNu " give u up soI more season
BILE hour. At rough estimate there are moi
ess than fifty or sixty uses, chiefly Irish dog
cries Of the lowest order, badly damaged, and
heir contents destroyed. To estimate the loss |
e are unable, hut should guess it not much |
t $50, 900. All this, besides the murder and |
was the work Of but few hours |
he police force was entirely insufficient, and |
u nearly three hours the excited multitude |
ad full sway.-After the appearance of the mil
ary comparative order was restored, but up to
le hour Of going to press this morning, there
ere small squads moving here and there, bu,
'paranty without ability to dol further mis-
1ief
EEATH OF PIZZARRO.
This month three hundred and thirteen years
20, Pizz irro was murdered in his own house