The Evansville daily journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ia. [i.e. Ind.]) 1848-1862, 1855-06-11

and the wound dressed BY DIR. Lord
Thomas McKenny, young man about
90 years old, was slightly wounded by bull
let on the head. A young man by the name
Frank Milken received a blow from a brick
bat in the face, making severe wound; also
an apprentice of Mr.. Felt, and a young man
employed in the United States Hotel, were
slightly wounded by bullets.
| John A. Poor, Esq, on his way home from
his Office, passed, in company with two other
gentlemen. in front Of the Clapp and Deering
Block, and just before reaching Prebe street
a bullet passed through his hat, but did NJ
injury. There were several other similar
hair breadth escapes. After firing for while
the soldiers charged bayonet6 through
the STREETS, and made several wanton and
rude arrests, though none were attempted in
the early party OF the evening, when they
ought to have been made. Mr.. Seth Hiborn,
an elderly gentleman, received a severe bay
! onet wound in the hip, while trying to get out
of the way as fast as he could.
| Thomas McCarty, a hostler, aged - years,
received ball Under his chin, which passed
out through his cheek. breaking the Jaw bone
! in its passage.
/ The Argus, after giving the above as
statement of the facts in the case, comments
with severity upon the course of Mr.. Dow
in the execution of the liquor law, which it
alleges has excited much hostile feeling
against him. 1t expresses the belief that
the purpose Of the people assembled was only
to spill some of the liquor which they believed
to have been illegally obtained, and that if
he had not appeared with the military, no
serious harm would have been done.
The State of Names account of the riot is
as follows:
| At 81 O'Clock the different bells in the city
rung al alarm Of fire, which proved false,
and the crowd returned in great numbers
Stones were thrown by the crowd against
the door of the rum shop by those outside
Some one then approached and attempted to
read the riot act Being a poor reader, his
attempt excited dersive bursts of laughter.
The police inside the rum shop immedi-
ately commenced firing through the door into
the crowd.
Ate O'Clock Mr. Dow sent an order to the
armory of the Portland Light Guard for them
appear under arms. Capt. Charles H. Green,
Captain of the Company, objected TO the
course of proceedings. Mr.. Dow came into
the armory, prepared with ball cartridges,
and commanded the men to load with powder
and balls.
i About twenty-four soldiers, with Captain
Green and Lieuts Kendall and Sawyer, then
marched down stairs with Mr.. Dow 1t their
head, being himself armed with heavy
black club.
Capt. Green was then ordered by the
; Mayor to order the company TO fire, and the
r men, in obedience to the word, took aim. -
The Captain, however, hesitated. and asked
the Mayor if he should fire. The Mayor said
, "Stop moment" and the order was counter
manded. The Light Guard did not fire on
> the crowd, and came back to their armory
| oft thair
armory, and wanted their muskets for the use
of the Rifle Guard. Capt. Green submitted
D the question to vote of the Company, when
D Mr.. Dow interrupted, saying he did not re-
quest their arms, he demanded them.
The Rifle Guard, with Capt. Chas. A.
t Roberts at their head, were then marched
e into the armory of the Light Guard, without
I their consent, and took the guns that had
been previously loaded against the earnest
protestations OF the Light Guard.
! Mr.. Dow then asked how many of the
Light Guard were ready to join with the
Rifle Guard Capt. Green put the question
4 to his soldiers, but none of them fell into the
+ ranks.
The Rifle Guard then marched down into
4 Middle street, Mayor Dow at their head,
and marched in doubfe-fle into the city
j shop.
4 Without word of notice t o the crowd on
Congress street, and without showing them
selves 10 the crowd, Mayor Dow ordered the
Rife Guard to fire into Congress street.
4 The order to fire was given so suddenly
+ that no one had chance to escape from the
. range of their guns. Lieut.. Patten, of the
Rifle Corps, ran round the end of the City
Hall to give the citizens notice of their
, danger, but before he could do this the vol
ley fired by the Rife Corps swept across the
: street, by which FIVE men fell.
!, The crowd was entirely without a leader
or any organization, and nothing was easier
than to have dispersed them without any
special violence, by the arrest of few of the
4 most prominent. Not tenth part had any
other motive that the idle curiosity, and the
. small portion that wished to create a riot
n could easily have been silenced or carried off.
1t is stated, on what we deem good au thority,
that not single arrest was made until after
the firing had commenced.
~ A little girl, six years of age, daugh-
d ter of Jas C. Aldrch, of Pawtucket, died on
h the 29th ult., from inhaing the vapor of
I chloroform, a vial of which had been left
! within her reach. She was found smelling
;. it, and it was taken away from her, but she
). had spilled some of it upon the bed-clothes,
d and falling with her face upon it, she was
u soon after found dead. The Pawtucket Ga
= zette says another similar case has since &C.
i Cured.
a PRESCRIPTION OF SAM.-Five thousand
dollars have been raised in Richmond, Vir-