Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1855-08-09

TUE ELECTION RIoT At LoUIsyiLLE.-As vague
'ad unsatisfactory as our telegraph dispatches are
relation to the causes of the riot and bloodshead
lttnling the election al Louisville on Monday
st. and as vague and contradictory as they are
'tn ia relation TO the scenes which actually trans
Plel, the accounts published in the Louisville
i'Psts of Tuesday are not less so. The accounts
tat We find in these papers have evidently been
Fntten in the midst OF confusion and excitement,
'ai rary greatly in their statements of the occur
aases during the day aud night of Monday. The
aaV Nothing papers assert that all the outrages
Attributable to the fOIeigners-that they were
,ggressors-that they had provided themselves
arms and ammunition aud premedltated nm
]hck on the Americans. The opposition, on
contrary, assert that the Know Nothings took
session of The polls, crowded the foreigners
sH end envUured to intimidate them by: threats
violence, and that the city was::vrIually in the
bssSiOn Of an armed mob.
Each is the substance of the publications in the
nsus Louisville papers now before US. 1t is our
tom when we eau get nothing but conflicting
FsInents in regard 10 any event, to wait an Off
investigation. VI at least to wait until the ex-
Il minds of the participators in the affair Ind the
ous parties pro and con are sufficiently calm to
al within tile bounds OF reason, before we ex-
;. the tEnth to be fully elected. We see no rea-
TO depart from this custom in the present case.
e only points on which these papers agree are,
At there was disgraceful and bloody riot in
-aisville, in which fifteen or twenty persons
lie been killed aud considerable amount Of pro
|tty destroyed by fire.
as specimen Of the conflicting accounts, we
's the following from two of the papers. All
papers agree lhata row Of houses at the cor
~ 0' Main aud Eleventh streets was fred and
'n'aned, hut how different the accounts! We
re first the Journals account.
IN lie meanlme,a fuSilale Of shot guns and rifles
a. Asa' up against any american passing by the
i,. ~ houses al the corner Of Eleventh and Main,
70 an lrshman named Quinn, brother
"s"ei Suihh' a Roman Catholic Priest. Several
ssous "efe wounded by shot fred from these
Lles' ana the attention Of the crowd was given
s1siu' lhey were filled with Irishnen, and with
- 81. arms as the sequel proved beyond doubt
'.>niPI was made TO drive them out, and the
"ete H'su-wAEthero on the inside or outside
{ ID, DO not know.
:, % nile. burning the frequentreports showed that
,t. Sste well provided with firearms; and the
W, Of poor miserable devil who was res
~ " Sapt' Stone, proves that they were filled
(or,J.I anu Contained thirteen kegs of powder
80. 1sA 'of The occasion. The houses are still
be ,"2' Is We write, and therot has not yet sub
'"s |00AiER'S account of the same transaction
Is follows: N ''''''e
.,''st dusk. row of frame houses on Main st.
nm, neGtn and Eleventh, the property OF Air.
e'' well known Irishman, were set OH FIRE.
lrii 'a,Iss extended across The street and twelve
,- -S'n:' were destroyed. These houses were
NAM, S sd by lElsb, and upon any OF the
ne NM, 's,S.uting out to escape the flames, they
tmsJ -, ~ shot down. No idea could be
M y, Tue number killed. We are advised that
wound ' ne roasted to death, having been sobsd-
e,c crosa by gun shot wounds that they could
~ pe ION tue burning buildings.
"a, a"e G01'isr of Tuesday morning comes to us
1 ," lA'u its usual amount Of reading matter,
I-'s' hath threats made that the mob would
.A Us Office, created such alarn smong the
- nat they could not be induced to work.
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