The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-08-09

Several officers were shot at as they ap-,
preached house from which there mad been
fri,g- and one severely wounded, he at the
time having his arms outspread and hands
onen to show them he had no weapons
Whv wonder then that American citizens
sought to obtain revenge for such outrages
lnoon American citizens! The only wonder
is, infamed by passion, they had not CON-
menced an indiscriminate courage and
Slaughter. AS it was, they seemed satisfied
with burning one house from which shots
had been fired, and smashing the windows of
several others. And this ended the LIST
ward riot.
Just before dark riot broke out in the 9Th
ward, the extreme lower part of the city
When we visised the locality an hour after
the commencement Of operations, an awful
scene met our gaze. Hundreds of men were
gathered in the neighborhood of burning
three story brick house. A row of other
houses were on fire in the rear. The en-
gines stood idly BY or were feebly worked to
protect other property not doomed. brass
cannon was drawn up on the street; at the
side of which were body of men with mus
kets and bayonets. This was 10 queU the
police, in case of resistance on their
part In front of tie house adjoining the
burning building, lay an Irishman, his lace
bathed in blood. Few ventured near him at
that time, as his friends were yet supposed
4 AZ We NaSSPd
by him and saw his hands and arms moving
We were told others had been shot or beaten
to death, and one man, caught in the act OF
killing an American, had been hung-and
such ,ocs the case, though when cut down,
he was still alive; and, so it was reported,
was saved by the police. An Irshrnan had
few minutes before fed from the burning
house, but was riddled by half dozen shots
/ before he ran half square. The body O!
another Irishman was laid opposite the burn
, ing house. He had been partially burned
| The mob were gathered in noisy knots, and
| a number keeping close watch on houses tor
fleeing Irishmen. One man came out with
a woman, (the women and children were not
The deception was discovered, and he was
being Roughly handled, when the police saw
: ed him. A young aid stout Irish woman
D came oct of an alley alongside of the burn
: ing house; with a feathet bed on her back
IL But the bed seen.ed too Heavy. Her husband
Il was iound concealed in it. After terrible
e striiggle, the police with the aid of citizens
h got him away and took hin to jail. Thu
woman said her two children were btrnet
e iup. She had tied them up, in mattrass AM
d left them sometime beforet But as sarg
J. number of children were saved, it was sup
.e posed hers were atlong them. Yet womal
If twas not known whether any person.
Is were burned other than these--but thu
e thought is horrible. The doomed Buildings
n ten or eleven in all, were slowly consumed
e But ere that time, portion Of the mob hav
g ing left with the intention Of destroying III,
It Times Office, we went to that quarter.-
n Horrible a6 were the atrocities committed
9 by this mob, they were all deserued-al
, brought on their own heads by the damnabIe
y acts of those very men who were shot OF
e beaten to death.
J. While the street in this neighborhood was
: almost quiet as usual, and the voting over,
two men were walking quietly to their
! homes. They had just arrived in the city
: and had their carpet sacks in hand. One, a
: peaceable, upright and handwriting young
s man, named Rhodes, was within sight and
almost at the door of his fathers dwelling,
where happy family awaited him: In a
/ few minutes he was borne IN that door; and
laid before his father and family, bloody
corpse, while his companion; shot and
0 beaten, was borne BY probably mortally
a wounded. They were fired upon By Irish
9 miscreants while thus peaceab!y walking
: along the street. This was the beginning
t an unparalleled outrage upon innoce mt per-
, sons. Two other Americans were after
| wards killed and large number wounded,
j before anything could be done by unarmed
! Americans to revenge the dead. Again the
wonder is, that the slaughter and carnage
were not even greater than they really and
} horribly were. We are opposed to moboc-
racy in all its forms; but we now say with a
ri fuller acquaintance of the facts in these ia
r stances than any man not present to make
|, personal inquiries could well be, that if ever
mobocracy were just6abte it was in
these cases. That American Citizens could
be expected to look calmly on and see their
countrymen murdered in cold blood. and
without any direct cause or provocstion,