The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1860-07-29


TWENTY HOUSES OF ILL Ft-aE SACKED AND fphni
TURE pEsrRoYED-oRE roLIcEMAE FATALLY IN
JcREp-AsorHER DIED OF FATIGUE.
From the 81, LOUIS Democrat, Jay I s,II ,o,.,x
simultaneously appeared on the ieyee nes ~ VI Al
street. armed nth axes crow ant s,f n mers
ara s. niiar mpeurents with whlch anu wiz. rdsh aud
hrT-.b they rrooeied up Almond street attracting an
additional crowd they advanced I've object Of this
starr he rovement, soon made evident beyond The
slightest peradvoptnre il was to clean out smash up
tesr Gees 70 atoms and ,rn 10 ashes whate yr
x,as suashabe, tearabb staveable cembust
be notorious nests Of bav dy houses which cluster
q A,nond ara neignoGSs.g Itreets. A den kept by a
BIS Hopfe, on almond petW Second Vain streets
was rdded with astonishing speed and effectiveness Ano
her on second between 70 liar Almond and below
Almond on Second were lacked despoed
and their contents destr Dyed The entire row on
betwesn Third and fou ,th strcetssone sx tenement
e. re- sne ss 'S.e The property Of Aaasm Hay craft
on tc southweht cr Of Amend and Fourth streets
was next as sanlted. and similarly riaed Madame Belle
beason notorious hole the north side OF Almond be-
visited by the d. stroyers
As the work Of devastation progressed, mutndes of
czens ASSEM- Died. hundreds Of whom joined assduousy
N aldng inc enterprise. At first party Of the police
ohered ress but attacked with rocks one OF
whcn ssr" ok policeman eoseph ese upon the stomach
succeede' in arresDr three Of the rioters John Wick
ner, 1" nard Iambert'and Charles HellAre
In ~ e ARRAY twenty shots were fred by the
staTs TO n,mida:c the crowd but hsrpy no one was
n,t large crowd accompanied the Cheers and thei,
pfsc TO the Pcfce station, and disposition is said
TO been evnccd to effect rescue, but the attempt
was not made.
The path the destroying marked by blazing
b. nires, in which were consuming the wreck of the
mashed furniture Of the houses Just sacked. AT Second
and Almond On Almond between Third aud Fourth, on
Fourth at Mmond on Myrtle near Eighth, and at still
other Localities, these fires successfully rising,
umning the scenes of sack and destruction, and at,
tracing additional muttuo CO Of wondering citizens and
women and even children The police yielded the point,
anc the mob were len TO accomplish their work
| without further moestation, far as we
| could Discover, until at least eleven O'Clock.
At that -Four the excitement continued and the work was
stH progressing Before left the district not less
Than twenty tenements had been "ceaned OUT and il
was IN contemplation TO finish ten or twenty more.
So far as could learn, the prevalent sentiment was
OF property was permitted, while the saluary effect Of
breaking up these establ shments undisputed But
II was thought dsgrsces that it should be deemed
ceesary for the mob TO do work which should in some
manner be effected, far desirable by the enact
rrcnt and enforcement of law.
The tenement, at the southwest Of Fourth and
Almond was Bill teXols noted South Fourth street Ex
change. Adjoining it was house and sesar store kept
by some fancy Frenchwomen Both these establishments
were thoroughly riddied. In the rear, defence was
made by parties inside, who fred several shots into the
crowd, but without nJurng any person, so far as We
| learned
The feminine denizens of these destroyed rookeries
passage through the hronged made the
sion Of uncomplimentary shouts while nothing like
personal violence towards them was thought Of
The lesson Of these dsgr aceul s that when
inolerahle nuisance left unsurpassed by the author
ties hen circumstances, protests and prayers fail tC
arouse easy officials to sense Of their duties the mob
will assume the function Of the police, and will do for the
| city what the lawssas failed TO accomplish.
We sbosd add to the above thai the Fire Department
| was promptly called out TO prevent destruction Of
LAnRThe police mustered In force at half pas. eleven
O'clock and effected the Of about fifty of the
rioters AT one O'Clock the mob was still a, work, but
| less violently, and the arrests were continuing.
Policeman kennedy suddenly dropped dead at Fourth
| and Market streets, from heat exhaustion.