Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1860-07-27
MOB LAW RAMPANT IN ST. LOUIS.
Destructive Riot-Twenty Houses of ILL.,
Repute sacked and the Furniture De-
atrOyed. .ry ...I

strOyed.
Yesterdays st. Louis Democrat has the
following
At ten o'clock last night some forty or fifty
persons simultaneously appeared on the levee
near the foot of Almond-street armed with
axes, crowbars sledge-hammers, and similar
implements, with which, and with rush
and hurrah, they proceeded up Almond-street,
attracting an additional crowd as they ad-
vanced. The object of this apparently sinis-
ter certainly ominous, and decidedly start
ling movement, was soon made evident.
A den kept by Mrs. Hoppe, on Almond,
between Second and Main-streets, was rid
died with astonishing speed and effective
ness. Another on Second, between Poplar
and Almond, and one below Almond, on
Second, were successively attacked, de-
spoiled, and their contents destroyed. The
entire row on Almond, between Third and
Fourth-streets, some six tenements, shared
the same fate. The property of Madam Hay
craft on the southeast corner of Almond and
Fourth, was next assaulted and similarly
on the north side of Almond, between Sec
ond and Tbird-streets, had previously been
visited by the destroyers.
AS the work of devastation progressed,
| multitudes of citizens assembled, hundreds
of whom Joined assiduously in aiding the
enterprise. At first a party of the police
offered resistance, but were attacked with
rocks, one of which struck policeman Joseph
| Friese upon the stomach, inflicting wound
| which may prove fatal. The police succeeded
| in arresting three of the rioters, John Wick
mer Leonard Lambert and Charles Hellard
In the affray, some twenty shots were fired
by the "stars," to intimidate the crowd, but
| happily no one was hit. A large crowd ac-
COMMANDED the officers and their prisoners to
the poice-station, and disposition is said Ia
| have been evinced to effect rescue, but the
attempt was not made.
| The path of thedestroying mob was marked
by blazing bonfires, in which were consum-
| ing the wreck of the smashed furniture of the
houses Just sacked. At Second and Almond
| on Almond, between Third and Fourth, on
Fourth at Almond, on Myrtle near Eighth
| and at still other localities, these fires were
successfully rising, Illuminating the scenes
of sack and destruction, and attracting ad
| ditional multitudes of wandering citizens anC
women, and even children. The police yielded
the point, and the mob were left to accom-
plish their work, without further molestation
Before we left the district, not less thar
| twenty tenements had been "cleaned out,
and it was in contemplation to finish ten ol
twenty more.
The tenement at the southwest corner o.
| Fourth and Almond, was Bill Clextons noted
South Fourth-street Exchange. Adjoining
it was a house and cigar store, kept by
some fancy French women. Both of thes'
establishments were thoroughly riddled. II
| the rear defense was made by parties in
side, who fred several shots into the crowd
but without injuring any person, so far a
we learned.
The feminine denizens of these destroyet
rookeries were seen 1eetly scattering in al
directions, and their passage through tn
thronged streets was made the occasion o
very uncomplimentary shouts, while nothing
like personal violence toward them wa
thought of.
LATER.-The police mustered in force a
halfpast eleven o'clock, and effected the ar
rest of about fifty of the rioters. AT on
o'clock the mob was still at work, but les
violently, and the arrests are continuing.
Policeman Kennedy suddenly droppe
dead at Fourth and Market-streets fror
heat and exhaustion.