The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-11
THE LOUISVILLE RIOT.
FIFTEEN PERSONS KILLED
1 TWENTY WOUNDED.
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FULL PARTICULARS.
FULL PARTICULARS.

Ane Louisville papers of Tuesday are received
wha accounts of the late bloody riot In d at city
me accounts are tinged BY political opinions. w,
give accounts from journals on each side. tn,
Courier was Know Nothing until few weeks be.
lore the election, when IL was discarded BY th,
order for opposing their candidate for Congress
% ana became bitter anti'k Know Nothing. The jour
nas y the leading Know Nothing paper.
The Louisville democrat" antf.K Know Nothing
takes the same view OF the riots as the "Courier,
and imputes TO the Know Nothings "a studied anG
perseverng system Of provocation to violence, will
view to prevent the Germans and Irish from vo.
ting and that the riot was determined upon before
hand. even to the destruction Of the polls II neces
sary." s-st
From the Louisville Journal
We deeply regret to have to record the scenes o.
violence, bloodshed, and house burning, which oc
Cured in our city yesterday We cannot now ex.
press our great adherence OF such things; nor
can we find space In which 70 say what we would
wish to say upon this subject. terrible respon.
sibility rests upon those who have melted the TO
reign population of the city 70 the deeds of vio.
lence which were the commencement Of the riota
10 the first and eighth wards. We are confident
that these riots were not occasiened by any thing
that happened at any of the several voting places.
The election throughout the city, far as we can
learn, had passed Oft with unusual quiet with the
exception OF abrutal outrage in the first ward of
which we shall speak presently, and some fighting
at the eighth ward polls, In which no one was
much hurt. The riots were occasioned by indis
criminate and murderous assaults committed by
foreigners, chiefly Irish upon inoffensive citizeps
peaceaby attending to their own business, ct some
distance from any of the voting places. All the
circumstances connected with these assaults
strongly Indicate that they were premeditated and
instgGted BY other parties than those by whom they
were actually committed. We are not now pre.
pared to say that they were the consequences only
OF tns incendiary appeals, for some time past,
publicly made to our foreign population by some
OF the leaders of the Ani-American party, or that
they were nstigated by direct Instructions of men
with handish hearts who control In q great mea
sure the passions and ars able to dictate action to
the German and Irish who made these attacks
All the facts win probably be asceTtained judiciay
and ther the responsibility will rest where 1t pro-
perly belongs. The circumstances az detailed to
US, and shs confessions of some of the miserable
wretches who were made tha victims of their
insane folly and murderous violence, show that
these as5aults upon unoending snd innocent native
born citizens were premediteted, and that the
blame attaches to others who are az Yet unnamed.
. We Rave not now time to give details. We as
sert however, and are sure that 1t will be proved
by respectable witnesses, that every act of blood
shed was begun by foreigners. That in every in
stance where mortal violence ensaed, the begin
ming of the riots was an unprovoked slaughter by
foreigners OF peacesbe Americans while quietly
passing in the streets at distance from the polls
This infuriated the populace, and prompt and
terrible resort to mob violence by which many for
eigners were killed and much property destroyed
was the consequence. 10 the first ward about 9
o'clock in the morning, while the election was pro.
ceeding quietly at the polls, Mr. George Burge, a
respectable, and quiet American citizen was pru
tally assaulted by party OF Irishmen ON jackson
street, between Jefferson and Greene, without
having given any provocation, he was knocked
down and horribly beaten W ith stones and clubs
He attempted to escape from the fends by whom
he was attacked and ran into the alley OF an ad-
joining house, where he wasfoiiowed by his blood
thirsty assailants and cut, stabbed, and beaten un
til he was supposed to be dead, when one of these
inhuman brutes deliberately opened his knife and
proceeded 10 cut the throat OF the murdered man.
When this act OF violence was made known party
of Americans stared in pursus of the murderers
who were subsequently arrested and lodged In jail
by the mayor anu City nfa stuui.
In the afternoon between threo and four o'cl ock
several Americans were fred upon and severely
wounded while quietly riding or walking by the
German brewery, on Jefferson street, near the
Beargrass bridge. Among these were some gen.
tlemea from Jefferson county and several respecta
BILE citizens. One gentleman who was fired at was
riding In buggy with his wife seated by mis- side
About the same time perfect shower of shot and
bullets were raned upon every American passer-
by from the windows OF some houses occupied by
Germans upon Shelby street In the neighborhood
of Madison street.
As soon these occurrences were made known it
ascertained that large bodies of foreigners arm
ed with shot guns and rifles, had assembled in the
by street. An indiscrimna slaughter of Amer.
isan citizens was spprehended. An imm enss crowd
bled, they were fired at from the windows of the
and the houses Shelby st and in seek
log to arrest these offenders several men were badly
wounded and the incensed and infuriated mob burn.
ed the brewery, and sacked the hoNses from which
the shots wsre fired.
In the 9th ward the most serious Disturbances oc.
Cured about O'Clock In the afternoon, A Mr.
Rhodes, in company with tive friends, ell American
citizens, was quietly passing up on Main street.
Chapel, when they were set upon By party of ten
Iushmen, who with horrible oaths swers they would
clean the streets of every American. Fifteen shots
were fred upon them. Rhodes Yves killed, and both
his companions badly wounded, one of them seri
ously The Irishmen then up Chapel street, and
on being pursued t ok refuge in heuse the corner
of Chapel and Market streets, whence several shots
were fired by the inmates, by which several Ameri-
can citizens were wounded and two were killed.
Mr. Graham and MIR. Hobson. The firing from this
house continued for some half hour The Irish " ere
armed to the teeth with firearms of every descrip o.
ton, while the Americans almost entirely un.
armed, and obliged to 90 to their homes to pro.
cure arms to defend themselves and their friends
from the murderous FIRE of the insane wretches who
had made this attack upon them. Between and 7
ocl Jck sufficient force bad assembled to capture
the murderer OF young Graham; an attempt was
made to hang him. but we learn that he is still liy.
ing tR
In the meantime fusilade of shot guns and rifles
was kept up against any American passing by the
beiop ging an Irishman named Quinn, a brother
OF Father Quinn, Romsn Catholic Priest. seve al
premises and the attention of the crowd was given
70 them. They were filled with Irishmen, and with
loaded arms, the sequel proved beyond q doubt
An attempt was made to drive them out, and the
houses were fired, whether on the inside outside
we do not know. While burning, the frequent re
ports showed that they well provided with fire.
arms and the confessions of poor miseEabl devil
who was rescued by Captain Stone proves that they
filled with arms and contained thirteen kegs OF
still burning write, and the riot is yet sub.
dued. 1