The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1855-05-16

Street and beat him. r. F. Baird, Esq,
.sndeavorcd to protect him, but without
Geo. W. Noble vent into the First
Ware polls while theetowd were off alta
Eight. and deposited his vote. on com
ont a largo man asked him how he
"As pleased,"N was the re-
ply, when he was knocked down. Get
ting up, he was knocked down a second
and a third time, and then dragged some
distance by the hair of his head.
An Old German, apparently about
seventy years of age, was bea'sn almost
to a jelly, and left covered with blood!
Young Bamberger, in quietly passing
along, was pursued for several squares,
and succeeded in escaping only by hiding
il an old building.
a large crowd pursued two Ger
mans from. the First Ward polls to the
United States BreweryIon Market, Just
below Wenzel street: An aged man,
seeing the crowd coming, hurried to
pass through a private alley into his own
house. Before he could open the gate
and pass in, two or more assaulted him
and knocked him down. Trying to get
u he begged for his life; but not his
age, his, grey hairs her e~ptreaties were of
any avail the miscreants assaulting
him struck with a slung-shot-the blow
missed its aim, striking the wall of the
house At that time the crowd divert
ed attention to the house of p. Merkel,
keeper of the brewery, and the poor old
man escaped.
Lr The main crowd were furious in
their pursuit Of, the two young Germans.
They assaulted the house, demolished
the bar-room, breaking everything in it,
and beat Mr.. Merkel in a most cruel
manner. Not satisfied, The mob pushed
on through the house, breaking and
tearing to pieces all that came in their
way, chairss beds, dishes, pictures and
glasses. Upstairs they pushed into the
room where Mrs. Merkel and her chill
dren were ; some one struck her a Sc
we're blow on the shoulder. -Four or FIVE
shots were fired into the room were the
children were. sd lu .,s.E} rs
A." Charles Hunt, Markets driver, was
pursued, up stairs and shot at, the ball
lodging in the decreasing above his
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ed him down, and beat him nearly to
death. rssTtsE .vrsbns9 a. s=roa
"All the furniture in the house, ex-
cept two small rooms back, was entirely
destroyed. Mr.. Hunt was robbed OF
SIS. The -money-drawer in Mr.. Mer-
kel's 5bar-room was rifed of its contents,
something soTer $50. o fso- !.i
The two young Germans, John Suy-
der and G.. Raich, were cut and min
gled in a terrible manner. One ofthem
will, in all probability, lose one of his
eyes. An attempt was made to fire the
house. .a.s .a.
1.-THE crowd returning from the brew
cry, stopped a milkman's wagon. The
young son of the milkman, frightened,
jumped out and ran down street, scream
ing with terror. A blacksmith near by
rushed out and endeavored to protect
him for this humane attempt tho crowd
stoned him.
GA funeral proceeding up Jeffer.
son street to the graveyard was stoned,
"The drugstore, corner Main and
Campbell, was stoned. ,a zen
"a shoe-storc on Main, near Clay,
was also stoned. -
GA wagoror from Shelby County
while passing along quietly was assault
ed and forced to run. , -
"In the Second Ward, about nine
o'clock, a Germa living on Jefers5r
street, between Preston and Jackson
street, stepped out of his house toztake
crowd that was passing, looking fol
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the infant in his arms
"Aboutsthe same time, Mr.. f. Frishe,
a candidate for Magistrate, went, with
a friend, to- the Second Ward polls to
vote. when they were assaulted and Sc
verely beaten.
Mr.. Jacob Seibert, going to the
polls, was knockeddown by one, and beat
en- By several others tfse ssi Es.
As Mr.. ". Xeitch was about en-
tcring the engipe-house, he was dragged
out and beaten '~' -
A crowd on Jefferson street knock
ed down an old German white=washer,
and while he was down, stamped on him,
kicked and beat him. About a square
further off, the same crowd assaulted an
old mana very old man, a poor man,
whose clothes were all tattered and torn
whose steps were feeble with the weight
of years on his head-and him they beat
most numerically.
" Captain Knapp was assaulted, but
managed to escape 90 H7'@ 'F75'
A mechanic, returning from his days
work, passing on the opposite side of the
street, was assaulted and chased several
squares. |
"The following persons were also
beaten, but we are unable to give the
circumstances: John Hess, Felix,
a blacksmith, living east of the Wood
land Garden, and John Mann. a-a
"The First Ward was the scene in
the afternoon of great excitement-pis.
tolls firing men running, women and
children screaming ; nor was the firing
confined to the vicinity of the polls. SIS
Mr.. YIN. Gray, who had been quiet
ly watching most of the forenoon for an
opportunity to vote without meeting vio-
lence, and who returned after dinner, at
last took advantage of the absence eff the
crowd, whiehiwas off chasing some I'M
fortunate foreigner, and deposited his
vote. On coming out he was stopped by
one of the crowd which was then return
ing and struck on the head. Mr.. Gray
was7seen to replace his head and then
drawing a double-barreled pistol, fred.
Before he, could fire the second barrel,
three pistols were fred at him. He
shot the second time and fed, no less
than fifteen to twenty shots being fred
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