Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1855-08-16

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Gus difficulty occurred in the upper part
of the city. A couple of gentlemen
we're riding along in carriage. when
they were fred at from house by
Germans or Irish and one Of them
wounded. The firing was repeated
Ed. Williams, watchman in the Sec,
ond ward, Joseph Selvage and John
Latta. Americans, went there. Latta
had his leg shattered by musket ball.
Selvage received several buckshots
about his body, and Williams was slight
ly injured.
The report reached the lower part of
the city that six Americans had been
shot and were lying in DR.. Pyles's Of
fee. This caused the assembling of a
large crowd, which proceeded up town.
The first attack made by the crowd was
on German named John Vogt, in a
house from which shots had been fired
upon Americans, on the corner of Clay
and Madison. He was shot, stabbed
and beaten. Another German. named
Jacob, who was sitting on staircase,
was dragged out, stabbed and beaten
His recovery is doubtful Everything
in the lower part of the house was brok-
en- to pieces.
The crowd then proceeded to the cor
ner of Madison and Shelby, where fir
ing from the houses had taken place,
and they riddled two groceries. A
German ropemaker named Helm, who
was walking along the street, was beset
by the crowd and terribly beaten.
The crowd then ransacked German
beer-house, corner of Walnut and Shell
by, kept by C. Kiszler, and two houses
occupied by Germans on the corner of
Shelby and Marshall. A German nam
ed John Feller was stabbed seven times,
but not dangerously injured.
The next scene of the riot was on
Jefferson street, near Beargrass creek.
Here party of gentlemen coming into
the city was fred upon by foreigners
from the houses, and some of them Sc
riously wounded. Armbruster's brew
cry and several houses from which the
shots were fired, were attacked, and the
contents demolished. The brewery
was afterwards fred and burned down,
with several other houses. A number
of window-panes in other houses were
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badly beaten, and an Irishman, named
Patrick Murphy, was shot; he died this
morning. On Preston street, below
Main, John Sutherland, an American,
was shot, but not dangerously injured,
and an Irishman was shot and beaten.
All the German houses attacked were
those from which shots had been fired
by the occupants.
While this was going on in the upper
part of the city, several persons were
fired upon on the lower part of Main
street. About o'clock. two Ameri-
cans were shot from an Irish house,
while going along on Chapel street.
This at once brought the excitement to
the highest pitch. The Irish row, on
Main street, above Eleventh, was attack
ed and fired, and several persons were
killed and some burned A large num-
Der were wounded. The Irishman who
shot Graham while he was taking care
of Rhodes, an American who had been i.
shot, was hung, but cut down before he
died. At least thirty shots were fired |
from houses on Chapel street. 1t is
impossible to ASCERTAIN all that were
wounded. Malvin H. Scott, Anerican, |
has his arm badly shattered by ball.
Seven or eight houses on the north /
side of Main street, above Eleventh, and /
two on the south side, were burned. A
man named Richard Blackburn, who
had hold of the pipe of the american
Eagle Company. was shot about 8
O'Clock this morning. The houses were
nearly all owned by Francis Quinn, who
was killed.
Later at night. one of the groceries
on Madison street, was burn
ed down, and also two Irish cooper
shops on Main street. There were sew
eral German cooper-shops in the same
vicinity, but none of them were burned.
We are credibly informed that the mob
had nothing to do with this fire.
There are some warlike demonstra-
tions this morning on Fifth street, near
Main, but better counsel prevailed, and
the crowd finally dispersed.
We have given the above hastily and
obtained the particulars from sources
which we consider most reliable.