Lynchburg daily Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1852-1861, 1857-02-21
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funnel for the use of the New York and Erie
Railroads through Bergen Hill. in the city Of
Hudson. New Jersey were engaged in a terrible
rint on Saturday afternoon and Sunday and TINT
IL was necessary 10 call out the iremen aud null.
tafy Of Jersey city aud lIoboken TO quell the
disturbance The New York Tribune has the
following additional particulars:
A large number were bruised and cut in tho
fight some eight or ten were badiy hurt,and two
/ or three may mt survive their injuries. Mr.
Mallory. tle contractor. has had nearly 1900 men
employed upon tn work, but desiring to push it
forward he has lniey considerably increased his
fafec. Some of the men employed are from Nun
. ster aud others from Connuught district, in Ire
land. These ahorers have colonized, and butt
their -hnniies in groups. The patch" on which
tho. Munster men had squaited is adjaoen To that
on which the Connaught men had erected their
shaniir- Sumo of the late corners who had Join
cd thr Munster settlement had transgressed up
ON the domain Of the Connaught men in erecting
/ iheir dwellings, which was the principal cause
/ tint excited the old feud between the two clans,
/ end led To the riot.
The reason Of the outbreak occurring on Sat
urday was the fact TINT they received their wages
/ that day. and more wbiskey than usual was i'm
| bbed. The fighting commenced by an assault
! upon the Munster men about O'Clock on Satur-
! dny afternoon. and continued until night. the
numbers engaged in it constantly increasing
! The weapons used were clubs. stones and fists,
] aud some of the women who joined in pot stones
in the stockings aud used them with considers
i Bile effect
At night tho fight grew worse and some four
or five hundred men and women engaged in it.
| Four shan,ies were at this time set on fire. 1 he
citizens Of IIoboken becoming alarmed, and it
being impossible for Sheriff Beatty to procure
men enough TO make u descent upon the rioters
with safety. he sent 10 Jersey City aud IIobokrn
for aid. -Four fire COMPANIES in Jersey City
aud lloboken turned out and by perlniss Of
chief engineer French, went to the scene of dis
tnfhance.
Arriving in the vicinity of the scene of the
fire. the fire men formed in line with No. = in nd.
sanee. and led on by assistant engineer Hay beck
they charged. yelling loudly, upon the rioters,
who fled at their approach. They caught
nun IN the act of setting fire TO another shanty
and arrested him. There was no more fighting
on Saturday night after this occurrence.
The military companies arrived Immediately
nfterward They thoroughly secured the setlr-
meni Of the Munster men and of the Connaught
men. and arrested fifteen persons, who showed
by their appearance that they had becu engaged
in the not, and lodged them in Jail. The military
continued GA duty until O'Clock on Sunday NOR
Mug. All pencenbe during the night.
Tho men employed upon this work are divided
into day and night hands and one half were nj
work in the shafts at the time the disturbance
broke out The ladders were drawn up out OF the
shafts ~ keep them there, SO TINT they should
not lnnre in the aifray.
Tie lighting was renewed on Sunday to some
eAlrnt, but was quoted. The Washington Vol
unteers. Captain Spear, of Bergen, were on the
duty on Monday md sheriff Beatty made further
arrests of thirty five persons. The prisoners fifty
III number ARE lodged in Bergen jail.
Ihe New York Times says
In viewing the shnutrs after the riot. Doctor
Auford found large number who bad been in
pfed in varou, ways. In one shantv, where
,here were -four men and three women most If
whom, from the free use of whiskry were uncon-
scioua of passing oyents--a woman was found,
giving the name of Mrs. Mulligan. who had bare-
Is escaped with lifefrom the flames of II hot burn
in shanty. Size had sustained severe injuries
fres the clubs Of the maddencd rioters. Her head
showed two terrible scalp wounds and her left
/ shoulder blade WIS fractured.
Ia the next shanty visited was found man
1 med Kelly. who had been stabbed in the chest in
Two places. The doctor probed one under the
/ iight ann and Immediately announced it fatal,
The kniIr having entered the lung. causing inter-
nal hcmorrhnge. His wife stated that descent
was mnhr upon their dwelling by party of five
ar six "i the rioters, and her husband received
/ his injuries While defending the door.
\ httlr eill whose further among the ar.
rested on saturday, was injured so seriously IN
! the metre that she died on sunday.
John Quinn WAS shot in the eye. lie was not u
pari, pator in the riot. He arrived from inl-
tnnnre en- Saturday afternoon. and was getting
orf Il thr Bergen stage when be was shot.
Almost all # those arrested were injured in
sf',ue wuv--tur every mnn who found by the
military with head mashed fingers cut, or hnv-
Ht Sustained injuries of any character, was seiz-
oi upon Il, participant in the fight, and at once
Assigned position in the ranks between two
soldiers ard marched to prison.
When the urws of the not hul become known
the greatest CONSERVATION prevailed ,hrou yhout
the city. Every man hurried to his home To pro
teet his family, and adopted and brought into
notion all the means for security and defense at
his cnmnnml. Doors were barred and barricA.
id. windows durkrued, and firearms clubs ,&c.,
were prepared to use, If the igency made
them necessary. The families generally quar-
tered Themselves in the Easements of their hous-
- : the safest places IN case OF an attack All
the stores aud many of the public buildings weIe
closed at an early hour, and. excepting the Trump
ol the sodicry aud the police authorities. llud
son appeared like n deserted city. Happily the
night passed and the disturbances we've not r.
II we'd.
Many If those in custody had in their posses
sion mt the time of their arrest firearms, hlud-
geons, slung shots, and other dangerous nstrn.
nen,s. all of which were seized by the sheriff,
and Will be keptas evidence against the parties.
General W niL"r sny incibIc.
1t seems that the one half we hear relative To
the sufierings and privations of this remarkable
mans amy in Nicaragua, is not correct From
the Inst and most reliable accounts. Gen. Walk
or was not deferied, nor had be remotest idea of
captivating. This statement is made upon the
hest authority. as viii! b. seen by the following
paragraph. which take from the Republican
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