Bellevue gazette. [volume] (Bellevue City, N.T. [i.e. Neb.]) 1856-1858, 1856-10-30

apothecary store, was shot in the cheek,
the ball coming out beneath the chin. He
was attended by DIR. Smull.
There were eleven persons taken into
Mr.. Smiths drug store, a number of
whose names we could not learn. A
gentleman named Kaufman, attending in
DIR. Smiths store, made a narrow escape.
He was standing at the door fronting on
Eutaw street, when a ball struck the door,
within six inches of his head. Another
passed near DIR. Smith, who wa in the
second story, attending some patients.
The store occupied by Mr.. Levy, S. w.
corner of Eutaw and Lexington streets,
has no less than ten ball holes in the bow
windows, in fact, in that region you can
hardly turn round without your eye rest
ing on some spot that a pistol or musket
ball has not made an impression.
About the same time the above fight
was going on, there was another desper-
ate encounter in the n%eighborhood of
Centre and Calvert, Monument and Mad
ison and Calvert, and between these points
and Washington Monument. This fight
was between some Of the uptown Ameri-
can Clubs and the Democrats from the
Eighth Ward. In this conflict, a young
man named Martin Throops was so bad
ly wounded that it is impossible for him to
recover; one ball entered the left temple
and lodged in the brain, where it now
rests another entered the back near the
spine, and has not yet been extricated.
His left shoulder was severely torn by a
bayonet, besides a wound in the left wrist,
made by an instrument shot on the corner
of St. Paul and Monument streets, and
was removed to the house of Mr.. Nor
gan, on Rose street, near Orchard. A
man named Carter was MORALLY wounded
in Mount Vernon Place, one shot enter
ing his breast and another his right tenn
pie. He was carried off by his friends,
at which time his brains were protruding
from the wound.
1t is said that one of the eighth ward
men named Broderick, was shot in the
neck and MORALLY wounded. There was
another of the same party shot in the
groin, the ball passing out at the hip, pro-
ducing a frightful, and, it is thought, fatal
wound. Another was shot in the side,
and several others we're shot in the legs
and body, but not dangerously. One of
the men was in the act of Gaping his
gun when a ball passed through his hand.
The banister of the porch in front of
the house on the corner of Centre and
Calvert streets, was perforated by six
balls, all of them striking within a space
of thrnn ,N,ho. T,ro lolle antDrnl ,lo |
front door of Mr.. VIM. Loney, and two
struck the marble upright of the entrance.
There is hardly a house in the neighbor-
hood that does not bear some impression
of the fight. For two hours this was con-
tinued, when the old town men, receiving
an additional supply of men and arms,
drove the others from the field.
A party of foreigners, each armed
with revolvers, were seen to rush down
st. Paul street towards Centre, bowling
and shouting out at ''the id Know
Nothings." The impression of bullets
can be found on the houses in the vicinity
of the fight, particularly along Waterloo
Row. The house corner of Monument
and Calvert streets, belonging to Hugh
McElderry, ESQ, shows the imprint of
nine bullets. Large pieces of the marble
were knocked off the front steps. The
front door of the house occupied by Mrs.
Earnes, has two bullets in it.
The seventh ward was also attacked
by a party from the eighth ward, and
after some severe fighting, in which num-
bers of shots were fired, the attacking
party was driven off. Many other affairs
OF minor importance occurred, which we
have not time to mention.