The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1860-07-31
Mob Law i'm st. Loulx.

Tho Missouri Democrat of Thursday gives
aa account OF the operations of a mob on " ed
hasday night, in attacking and destroying
large numb ber of houses of fame The mob
made bonfires of the furniture of the houses
in the streets, and were for some hours too
strong for TIE police. More than twenty tene-
meDta were cleaned out" Alta late hour the
police Clustered in force and arrested about
nifty of tile rioters. Several persons were
badly hurt in the fight and scramble and one
policeman fell dead from heat and exhaustion
IL seeias That early in the morning some forty
or nfty persons muftaneoUsly appeared on
the leyee near the foot OF Almond street
armed with axes, crow bars, sledge hammers
ano similar inpiements, with which, and with
rush aud hurrah, they proceeded up A lmond
street, attracting an additional crowd as they
advanced towards the notorious nests of baw-
dy houses which cluster on Almond and
helghboring streets. A den kept by Mrs.
Hoppe, on Almond, between Second aud Main
streets, was riddled with astonishing speed
and effectiveness. Another on Second be-
tween Poplar and Almond, and one below Al
mond on Second, were successfully attacked
dpspoIled, and their contents destroyed
L ne entire row on Almond, tweeu Third
and Fourth streets some six tenements shared
the same fate.
As the work of devastation progressed, null
utuoes OF citizens assembled hundreds OF
whom Joined assiduously in aiding the en- ter
PRISE AT first, party of the police offered
resistance, bat were attacked with rocks, one
OF which struck policeman Joseph Friese
upon Tue slouldCn, .nnlctlug WOunO winch
may prove fatal. The police succeeded in ar
resting three of the rioters, john Wickmer,
Leonard Lam bert and Chas. HelaTd. In the
airay, some twenty shots were fired by the
stars TO intimidate the crowd, but happily
no one was hit
The path of the destroying mob was marked
by blazing bonfres, in which were consumiD g
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
successively rising, illuminating the scenes of
sack and des truction, and attracting additional
m II titudes of wondering citizens and women.
and even children. The police yielded the
point, and the mob were left to accom- Pills b
their work without further molestatiOn, SO
far as we could discover, until at least eleven
O'Clock. At that hour, the excitement con-
tinupd, and the work was still progressing
Before we left the district, not less than tWen-
ty tenements had been CLEANED OUT and it
was in contemplation to finish ten or twenty
more.
So far as we could learn, the prevalent sen
timent WAS one OF regret that 50 lawless and
| wholesale Il destruction Of property was per-
mitted, while the salutary effect of breaking
| up these establishment Is was undisputed. But
| il was though disgraceful that it should be
| deemed necessary for the mob to do L work
which should in some manner be effected, so
| far as was desirable, by the enactment and en-
forcement of law.