The Richmond Indiana palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1854-1855, 1855-08-09
THE RIOT AT LOUISVILLE.
FIFTEEN OR TWENTY KILLED.
TWENTY OR THIRTY WOUNDED
TWO ACCOUNTS


scenes of violence bloodshed, and house
burning which occurred in our city yesterday.
We cannot now express our adherence OF
such things; nor can We find space IN which
TO say what We would wish TO say upon this
subject A terrible responsibility rests upon
those who have melted the foreign population
of our city 10 the deeds Of violence which
were the commencement of the riots IN the
First and Eighth Wards. We are conhcen'
that these riots were not occasioned oy any
thing that happened at any of the several so-
ting places The election throughout tne c'.y'
as far as we can learn, had passed on win
the execution Of a brutal outrage in the First
ward. of which we shall speak presently, and
some fighting at the Eighth ward polls In
which no one was much hurt. The riots were
occasioned by indiscriminate and numerous
assaults committed by foreigners, chiefly Irish,
upon business at gsasseeSy
any Of the voting places. All me cn ,.an
y lnarcare that hey were REP premed,ated and
instigstsd by other parties than those by
whom they were actually committed. We
are not now prepared to say that they We're
the consequences only of the ineendiary APP
peals. for some time past. publicly made to our
foreign population by some Of the leaders Of
the Anti American party. that they were
insiigaied by direct instruction of men with
hendish hearts. who control in a great meas
ure the passions. and are able to dictate ac-
tons to the Germans and Irish who made
these attacks. All the facts will probably be
ascertained judicially. and then the RESPONSE
bility will rest where it properly belongs
The circumstances as detailed to us, and the
confessions Of some of the miserable wretches
who were made the victims of their insane
folly and murderous violence. show that these
assaults upon unoffsnding and innocent native
born citizens were premeditated, and that the
blame attaches to others who are yet un
named.
we nave nos ZINE 70 give ootans. .eas-
sert. however. and that it will be
proved by respectable witnesses. that every act
Of bloodshed was begun by foreigners That
in every instance where mortal violence ensu-
ed, the beginning Of the riots an unpro-
yoked slaughter by foreigners Of peaceable
Americans while quietly passing in the street
at distance from the polls This infatuated
the populace, and a prompt anil terrible re-
sort to mob violence by which many foreigners
were killed and much property destroyed was
the consequence. In the first warl about 9
o'clock in the morning. while the election was
proceeding quietly at the polls. Mr.. George
Burge, respectable and quiet American citi /
zen, was brutality assaulted by party of Irish T
men on jackson Street, between Jefferson and i
Greene, without having given any provoca
ton, he was knocked down and horribly
beaten with stones and clubs. lie attempted
to escape from the fends by whom he was at
tackled. and ran into the alley Of an adjoining
house, where he was followed by his blood
thirsty assailants, and cut. stabbed, and bea- /
ten until he was supposed to be dead, when
one of these inhuman brutes deliberately open
ed his knife and proceeded to cut the throat
<f H. ,,~la ha,, -,
lence was made known party of Americans
started in pursuit of the murders. who We're
subsequently, arrested and lodged in Jail by
the Mayor and City Marshal.
In the afternoon between three and four o.
clock, several Americans were fired upon and
severely wounded while quietly riding or
walking by the German brewery on Jefferson
street. near the Beargrass bridge. Among
these were gentlemen from Jefferson county,
and several respectable citizens. One gentle
man who was fired at was riding in buggy
with his wife seated by his side. About the
same time perfect shower Of shot and bull
cts were rained upon every American passer-
by from the windows of some houses occupied
" Germans upon Shelby street, in the neigh
,orhood of Madison street.
As soon as these occurrences were made
nown it was ascersained that large bodies Of
oreiguers. armed with shot guns and rifles,
lad assembled in the neighborhood Of the
,rewery and also on Shelby street. An indis-
riminate slaughter Of the American citizens
vas apprehended. An immense crowd of ex-
tied, maddened Infatuated Americans assem-
lied; they were fred at from the window of
he brewery and the houses Shelby street,
nd in seeking to arrest these offenders seve-
al men were badly wounded. and the inccns
d and Infatuated mob burned the brewery
md sacked the houses from which the shots
we're fred
In the Sth ward, the most serious disturb
noes occurred about o'clock in the after
toon. A Mr.. Rhodes. in company with two
riends. all American citizens. quietly {
,assing up Main street. near Chapel. when ,
hey were set upon BY party of Irishnen,
Who with horrible oaths swore they would
lean the streets of every American. Fifteen J
hots were fired upon them. Rhodes was {
TILED and both his companions badly wound ,
ID. one of them seriously. The Irishmen
hen ran up Chapel street. and on being pur-
ued took refuge in the house st the corner
# Chapel and Market streets, whence sever
j shots were fred BY the inmates, by which
everal American citizens were wounded and 7
wo killed, Mr.. Graham and Mr.. Hobson. /
The firing from this house continued some ,
lalf an hour. The Irish were armed TO the
ecth with firearms of every description,
While the Americans were almost entirely I'M
'rmed. and were obliged 10 go 10 their homes
o procure arms TO defend themselves and
heir friends from the murderous fire of the
insane wretches who had made this attack |
lpon them. Between ard O'Clock, sui {
icient number were assembled TO capture the
murderer of young Graham; an attempt was
made 10 hang him, but we learn tina. he is
Till living.
We do not know how many have been Kill
ed. but have already heard of some twelve or
fifteen in all, and some twenty or thirty more {
II less dangerously wounded
The account below il a teIeprsnhic ranort