Tribune and telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1855-1856, 1855-08-16
Tie louisville Riots.

Ehe Louisville Riots
The Louisville Journal, gives the following ac
count of the late terrible riot in that city
The circumstances as detailed to us. and the
confession of some of the miserable wretcbes who
were made the victims of their insane folly and
murderous violence, show that these assaults up
on unoffending and innocent native born citizens
We're premeditated, and that the blame attaches
10 others who are as yet unnamed.
We have not time to give details. We assert
however, and are that it viii be proved by
respectable witnesses, that every act of boodshed
was begun by foreigners. That in every instance
where mortal violence cnsued, the beginning OF
INC rlots was an unprovoked slaughter, by foreign
ers, OF peaeeabe Americans while quietly passing
IN the streets at distance from the polls This
1nfurated the populare, and prompt and terrible
resort 10 mob violence by which many foreigners
were Killed and much property DESTROYED was the
consequence; In the first ward, about o'clock in
the morning, while the election was proceeding
quietly at the polls, Mr. Geo. Burge, a respecta-
bic and quiet American citizen was brutally as
saulted by party Of Irishmen on Jackson ST. be-
tween Jefferson and Greene-withoutha having Civ
en- any proyocatlon, he was knocked down and
horribly beaten with stones and clubs. He at
tempted to escape from the f!ends by whom he was
attacked and ran into the alley of an adjoining
house, where he was followed by his bloodthirsty
assaants, and cut, stabbed, and beaten, until he
Ndo ouppOScO 10 DC tcdu, WIleH one Oh tICSc III
human brutes deliberately opened his knife and
proceeded to cut the throat of the murdered man.
w hen this act ofviolence was made known, par
- OF Americans started in pursuit of the murder
ers, who were subsequently arrested and lodged
In Jsil by the Mayor and City Marshal.
III the afternoon, between three and four clock,
several Americans were fired upon and and Sc
verely wounded while quietly riding or walking
by the German brewery on Jefferson ST., near the
Beargrass bridge. Among these were some gen.
tiemcn from Jefferson county and several respect
able citizens. One gentlemen who was fred at
was riding i'll buggy, with his wife seated by his
side. About the same time, q perfect shower of
shot and bullets were rained upon every Amcri-
can passer-by from the windows of some houses
occupied by Germans upon Shelby street, in the
neighborhOod of Madison street
As soon as these occurrences were made known
1t was ascertained that large bodies of foreigners
armed with shot guns and rifles, had assembled
an the neighborhOod of the brewery and also on
Shelby st. An indscriminatc slaughter of Ameri-
citizens was apprehended. An immense crowd
OF excited, maddencd, infatuated Americans as
sembled; they were fired at from the windows of
the brewery and the houses OH Shelby st. and in
seeking to arrest these offenders, several men
were badly wounded, and the incensed and nfrl-
rated mob burned down the brewery and sacked
the houses from which the shots were fired
IN the 9Th ward the most serious disturbances
OOSuiiCu eDout " y CIOCh a. NJ. ~ AlT. hllUQcS,
in company with two friends, all American citi-
zcns, was quietly passing along Main street, near
Chapel, when they were set upon by party of
ten Irishmen, who with horrible oaths sworc thev
would clean the streets of every American. Eff
teen shots were fired upon them. Rhodes was
killed, and both his companions badly wounded,
one of them seriously. The IriShmen then ran up
Chapel St., and on being pursued tool, refuge in
house at the corner Of Chapel and Market SITS
whence several shots were fired by the inmates,
by which several American citizens were wound
ed and two were kllcd--a Mr. Graham and n Mr.
Hobson. The firing from the house continued
for some half an hour The Irish We're armed to
the teeth with firearms of every descriptions while
the Americans were almost entirely unarmed, and
were obliged to go to their homes to procure arms
to defend themselves and their from the murder
Gus fire of the insane wretchcs who had made this
attack upon them. Between & O'Clock a suf-
hcient force had assembled to capture the murder
er of young Graham; an attempt was made to hang
him, but we learn that he was still living.
In the meantime iusilade of shot guns and ri
fles was kept up against any American passing
by the row of houses at the corner of Eleventh
81 Main, belonging to an freshman named Quinn,
brother of Father Quinn, Roman Catholic
Priest. Several Americans We're wounded by
shots fired from the premises, and the attention
of the crowd was given them. They were filled
with Irishmen, and with loaded arms, as the Sc
qucl proved beyond doubt. An attempt was
made drive them out aud the houses were, fred,
whether on the inside or outside we do not know
While burning the frequent reports showed that
they Were well provided with firearms, and the
confessions of poor miserable devil who was res
cued by Capt Stone, proves that they with arms
and contained thirteen kegs of powder provided
for the occasion. The houses are still burning,
as we write, and the riot is not yet subsidized.
We have neither space nor time to enter into
any particulars. number of Americans were
slain by the foreigners, and number of the for
egners met heavy retributon We do not
know how many have been killed, bat have al
ready of some twelve or fifteen in all, and some
twelve or thirteen have been more or less danger
ously wounded. We will give details tomorrow