The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1855-08-17
souse 10 hoeen or twenty minutes after the first

nfins from McDouaid's. I i8lse
Daring the fre, sfisot was assisting to save the
properly, when an old Irish woman came out of
one OF QuInns houses and said to him (sfi anti
on, nr, II ihsd not been for Burns, none of this
all this shootips.s
Jane: White testifes and says He saw plain
.ast there were two men ct every window 10
tauinns houses except one, which was the house
I9Hectiy west OF the house occupied by Mcdonald.
Iln saw that each of the men had two double.bsr-
LIE. sneu guns or muskets or pistols and he saw them
snootlng out of the windows rather up Msiu street
H tne snooiing continued, with increased ceierity,
.oI nHeen minutes after he got there. He watched
.ao whole proceedings with intense anxiety. He
sy .aw Rhodes lying dead directly opposite McDon.
aio @ and he saw Graham lying 10 or l2 feet from
nnooes; and Graham, az he thought, was dying
wnen he first saw him. He died In . few minutes.
:. M Tegsrden says e. s...l ..z
moment 9 man came fr ON McDonald's and
P,osented revolver at Rhodes, who was endesgof-
s 70 get up and ct distance of ten or twelve feet
nnodes, deliberately shot at him several times
believe asr 70 and soon AFTER ana o.
LII sno. MIN with q gun. The father Of Rhodes then
came. and went up 70 Rhodes body and aided his
.aenet 10 remove 1t He was dead when we got to
sns oooy. Rhodes had no arms, and was not. that
90 nov o. disturbing any one when shot moment
=, Two after Rhodes fell heard gun fire, and lock
;s aIound saw young Graham fall and die almost
~ h.naIe1oiately he was coming towards Rhodes when
ne fell. He was shot in the cheat and near the
Mr., r Il. Lee ststes that there was little or no
hghting at the eighth ward pola duriDg the day. and
that the foreigners were not at any time driven from
the polls He made several Germans put up wea-
pons, with which they came to the polls, and which
the! exhibited IN one or Two quarres that sprang up
The Courier also says that had it been disposed
it might have filed it's columns from day to day since
the election with account of the terrible TRACE.
dies enacted on that mounful occasion bot has felt
an to psrsde all the facts In its posses
sion before the community, knowing that they would
only heighten the excitement and sggravate the
passion Naturally ensuing
ha m Of ha hon
"Our investigation of yesterday and the day be-
fore have brought to light still further evidence of
the brutality of the mob, which unaer the ciIcum.
stances, We feel it cur duty to publish:
"The house Of John Chieve,s on Main street,
near llth, WAS fired His wife ran into the street
with her children in her arms. She was surrounded
By the rnsns and told that if she did return to
the burning ruins and bring out her husband, for
them to kM that they would Kill both herself and
child. FIantic with despair, she permitted one of
them to take the child, and she herself returned to
the house and told her husbsnd what they said He
immediately rushed out to rescue his infant from the
murderous wretches and was riddled with shot and
left for dead He afterward carried to the inir
mary OF the Sisters OF Charity and has since died
He had not attempted to vote and had offered vio
lence to any human being. The above particulars
were detailed to us by his wife.
Martin Connolly, now lying dangerously wound
ed at the IntrmaTy, informs that he supper
when ne discovered that the house had been fired
he and hls wife ran out As soon they reached
few gentlemen attempted to save him, but one of
the Iuans placed pistol ct his left breast and fired
De al,o informed US of a man named Munroe, board
Ing with him. who was shot at the same time Con-
nelly Is peaceabie and lnofensive citizen. 4 a.
Dennis Long, another of the wounded, lying at
the Ipfirmary, informs that he was read ng news
paper on the street when Geo. Thompson, a friend
of his and Know Nothing came and told him that
the crowd at ths polls meditsting attack up
on the row of houses occupied by the Irish. and ad
vised him to keep in his house. He went to sleep,
and was awakened By the shots. His two brothers
were in the room W hen he awoke. They discovered
thatfhe house was on fire. They attempted to
cape by getting on to the roof of the adjoining house.
and from thence getting away. But no sooner had
they reached the sire cts than hi. two brothers. who
were In front of him, were fired at and fell. He
rushed on through the crowd, but was himself shot,
but remained unconscious until he carried to the
J ALL His two brothers were killed He heard the
murdered Quinn tell the mob that he would give
them all the money and ali the property he possess.
ed, they would spare his life and the lives of his
TENANTS but the savages shot him before the words
were scarcely out of his mouth. No offence is al
legged against any of these mer 's.-.f s-s
"Cessidy, nephew of Qunn's was shot az he at.
tempted to escape from the flames.
George Hubert, an old German living on the cor.
ner Of Ninth snd Chestnut streets, left home about
four O'Clock In the evening for Portland avenue to
see COW which he intended to buy. While passing
down Main street he saw two crowds, on the
of Eleventh street He was between them; heard
some shots fired; looked and saw man lying on the
pavement; saw two men, Americans go up and fire
Two shots at the prostrate body and would fred
the third, but the pistol would not go off Hubert
crossed the street to get of the way
he was followed by a man who said he wanted to
kill him with knife. The old man told him that
he was going on his business; that he had nothing to
do with the hghtine; that there use in kilng
poor old man. The wretch's heart seemed to be
touched; he went of with the crowd down toward
Eleventh street. The crowd, however almost imme-
dately returned again and surrounded the old man.
One OF them cried outlet us kill the id old
Dutch son ola b-h' He begged them to spare his
lfe Another cried out that be would shoot him for
the fun of the thing and imme dately placed pistol
to his right breast and fired Hubert now lying in
most critical condition at his sdence on the cor
ner of Ninth and Chesnut.
IAN old German, whose name could not ascer.
tain, living on Portland avenue between Thirteenth
and Fourteenth Streets who had been sick for seye.
raj months, crept under the bed when he heard the
mob approaching. He dragged out and shot
through the heart. ... =
"Ths facts which have been stated in this article
can be relied upon by our readers. They have been
gathered from the most authenIie sources"
The Mayor of Louisville has sent "a ssage to the
councils in which he claims that aided by the DO
lice. he did everything he could to check the mob,
but without avail until much property had been de-
stroyed. The council have passed q resolution su-
thorsng the mayor to seek out such persons have
rendered destitute by the destruction of their
property, and provide them all with proper necessa.
res. II this movement is carried out with liberal
hand, it will do something towards making little
lighter the black stain which this riot has stamped
on the reputation of Louisville.