Weekly Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1853-1861, 1855-04-12
MOB VIOLENCE-RIOTS.
THE MAYOR SEVERELY INJURED
Man Dangerously, if not Fatally Stabbed.
The fslot-oos< of the Hievents. WA d
Forcibly Seized, Trampled under

root ana the 6allOtS ~ DSStfOy ed.
In another part of this paper we have al
luded to the fight that took place i'm the
Eleventh Ward, occasioned by some outsiders
from other wards going there to raise a riot
We learn that a man named Pace, from Cow
ington, was the first one engaged. and came
off second best. A squad was gathered to
retrieve the lost battle, and another discom-
future was the consequence. The proclama-
ton went forth that "the Dutch must be
whipped" and a vast throng poured ont of
the Eight, Fourteenth and Fifteenth Wards,
and took up the line of march for the Eleventh
Warl gathering in madness, numbers and
recklessness as they proceeded.
Some Germans had taken cannon to the
summit of Jackson Hill, which they had been
firing through the day in honor, as they
thought, of JeffeHon's birthday, toward
which portion of the mob rushed with head
long speed. Finding but little opposition,
thev quickly took the piece of ordnance, and
loaded il with boulders, but not before n man
named Lee Petit, hailing also, we believe,
from Kentucky, was dangerously, if not
fatally wounded by a German, who was fore
man of F. Linck's brewery. IL was reported
that the wounded man wrested the murderous
',
him, killing him instantly but we are in
clined to believe it is a mistake.
| Hauling the cannon down opposite the polls,
an evident determination was exhibited to fire
il of, when Mayor Snelbaker appealed to
them to take it down to the river, and do
there as they liked. One of the leaders call
ed out, "Don't let's take il: the crowd will
follow us let's take the ballot-box.v This
was received with demoniac yell of appr,ha-
ton. The Mayor sprang table and en-
treated them to refrain from the sacrilege, but
all in vain. He received blow in the side
from brick-bat which prostrated him his
Goa. was torn in shreds from his back, and he
was considerably injured. They then seized
the ballot-box and smashed it to pieces de-
stroving The ballots. An effort was made to
seize the township ot-box but it is said
they did not succeed in obtaining If.
From the Eleventh Ward the X n. mob
determined to proceed to the Thirteenth
Ward, and destroy it ballots. They hauled
the cannon down, loaded as it was with
boulders, and turned it in the direction of the
house where the voting had taken place. ex-
pecting to drive every one away, when the
ballot BOX would fall an easy prev They
were foiled, however, the polls having been
closed a few minutes previously, and the bal
lot box secured. They then hauled the gun
TO the corner4o; the street. and notwithstand-
ing men, women and children, in great alarm
and CONSERVATION, were fleeing in every di-
rection, they fired it off horribly wounding
laborer at some distance, who W IS quietly and
peaceably vending his way home, and who
it was thought, could not survive
squad of this same mob paladed through
the streets, and stopped with their gun il
front of our Office, alternately groaning and
yelling, and showing themselves admirably
calculated to guard the safety Of the ballO
box, and the peace and queit Of the commu
nifty. Bowlders and bricks were thrown a
: the building, but fortunately only one of the
former found an entrance through the glas
, front. Numerous other outrages were com
mitted, but We have not received such par
ticulars as we deemed authentic, and reserv,
a further account for a more convenient time
Our city was disgraced last evening by on,
ofthe most dastardly and villanous acts eve
perpetrated in any community. The partic
ulars will be found in our local columns, an,
will be read with astonishment and NORTH
, cation by every friend of law and order
! Has it come to this Are we, in this en-
lightened age, and in this city of tw,
!. hundred thousand people, to be left to tn
mercy Of an infuriated mob governed by tn
worst passions, and regardless both of life an,
property Are our liberties to depend upo
} so frail and feeble thread, to be snapped i
twain at the instigation of some scoundrel, fo
t whom the gallows may be waiting, and who's
iecklessness is aided and abetted by the de
luded and maddened followers who press for
E ward to participate in the unhallowed work
Fine guardians of liberty Nice proteC
I tors of the ballot-box, from which the pee
pie derive their sovereignty Beautiful cor
sistency In those Who affect 10 think Amer