American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-08-09
LIE RIOT AT LOUIsYILLE.
TWENTY OR THIRTY WOUNDED
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burning which occurred in our city yes
tcrtay. We cannot now express our ab
horrence Of such things; nor can We fnd
space in which to say what VIC would wish
to say upon this subject A terrible re-
sPonsihiIily rests upon those who hayo in
ciIed the foreign population Of our city to
tho deeds of violence which were the CON
menccment Of the riots it the First and
Eighth Warls. We are confident that
these riots were no. occasionci by any
thing that happened ut any Of the several
voting places. The election througout the
city, as far as We can learn, had passed of
with unusual quiet, with the exception Of
a brutal outrage in the First ward, Of
which we shall speak presently, ami some
fighting al the Eighth ward polls, in which
no one was much burt. The rois were
occasioned BY inliscrimiuate and murior
GUS assaults committed by foreigners, chief
ly Irish, upon inofensive citizens, peacea-
bly, attending to their own bus mess. Mt
some distance from any Of tie voting pla
ces. All the circumstances connected
with these assaults. strongly indicate that
they were premedinted and nstiga;ed by
other parties than those by whom they
We're actually Committed We are not
now prepared to sNy that they We're the
consequences only Of the inccndary ap-
peals, for some time past, publicly male
to our foreign population by some of the
leaders Of the Anti American party. or
that they were instigated by direct in
structions of men with fiendish hearts, who
control in a great measure the passions,
and ave able to dictate actions to the Ger
mans and Irish who made these attacks.
All the facts will probably be asccrtaincd
.jud;cially, and then the responsibility will
rest where it properly belongs. The cir.
cumstnnces as detailed TO us, and the con.
fessions of some Of the miserable wreiches
who were made the victims of their insane
folly and murdcrous violence, show that
these assaults upon unofIending and inno
cent na.ivo-5orn citizens were p,emedita,
ted, and that the blame attaches TO others
who are as yet unnamed.
We have no, time to give details. We
assert, however and are sure that it will
be proved by respectable Witnesses, that
every act Of bloodsheI was begun by for
cigncrs. That in every instance where
nlortal violence en5uel, the beginning of
the riots was an unproyoked slau. .hter by
foreigers Of pcaceable Americans while qu-
city passing in the stree. at distance from
the polls, This Infatuated the popuhce,
and a prompt and terrible resort to mob
violence by which mlny foreigners were
kiled and much property destroyed was
The consequence. In the first ward about
9 O'Clock in the morning, whilo the ei-c-
ton was proceeding quiely at tile polls,
Mr.. Geo. Burge, respectable and qniet
American citizen, was brulaly assaulted
by party Of irishmrn on jackson S rect,
between Jefferson aud Greene, without
having given any provoca.ion, lie was
knocked down anl horribly beaten with
stones an! clubs. lie attempted To escape
from the f~nds 10y whom he was attacked
and ran into the alley OF an adjoining
house, where he was followed By his blood
thirsty assaiants, and cut, stabbed, and
bea.cn until he was supposed to be dead
when one ofihcse inhuman brutcs delbcr.
ately opened his knife and PROCEEDED tc
cu' the throat of the m0rdercd man
| When thiS act Of violence was made known
party Of Americans started in pursuit OF
the murlcrcrs, who werc subsequently ar
rested and lodgcl in jriI By he N Mayor and
City Marshal.
In the afternoon between three and
| four o'clock, several Americans were fired
upon and severely wounded while quietly
riding or walking by the German hrewly
on Jefferson street, roar the Baargrass
bridge. Among these We're gentlemen
from Jefferson county, and several respect
able ci.izans. One gentleman who was
fired at was riding ina buggy with his
wife seated by his side. Abou. the same
lime perfect shower of shot and bullets
were rained upon every American passer-
by from the windows ofsome houses occu-
pied by Germans upon Shelby street, in
the neighborhood of Madison street.
AS soon as these occurrences were made
known it was ascertained that large bod
les of foreigners, armed with shot guns and
rifles, had assembled in the neighborhood
of the brewry and also on Shelby street
An indiscriminatc slaughter of American
citizens was apprehended. An immense
crowd of excited, maddened, in(uriated A
mericans assembled; they were fired at
from the windows of the brewry and the
houses on Shelby street, and in seeking 10
arrest these offenders several men were
badly wounded, and the ncensed and in
luriated mob burned the brewry and sack
ed the houses from which the shots were
fired.
In the 9th ward, the most serious dis
turbances occurred about 6 O'Clock in tho
afternoon. A Mr.. Rhodes, in company
with two friends, all American citizens,
was quietly passing up Main street, near
Chapel, when they were setupon by par
| ty of ten Irishmen, who with horrible oalhs
sworo they would clean the Streets of eve
ry American. Fifteen shots were fired
upon them. Rhodes was killed and both
his companions badly wounded one OF
them seriously. The Irishmen then ran
up Chapel street, and on being pursued
took refuge in house at the corner OF
Chapel and Market streets, whence several
shots Were fired by the Inmates, by which
several American citizens were wounded
and two killed, Mr.. Graham and a Mr..
Hobson. The firing from this house con-
tinued some balfan hour. The Irish were
armed to the teeth with arms of every des
cription, while the Americans we've almost
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