The Iowa transcript. (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1858-1866, 1865-04-13

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on nut !, towards three or Tour o'clock
When the mastery OF the Ha'"es was
Oh, aimed, and Richmond was ""v a
from uttcr destruction.
"Vhen il was made known on sun
iay morning that the evacuation OF
Richmond was tnreg"ne conc'ns,o',
the city coancll held meeting, an III
secret SESSION, passc; ~ order Tor the
destruction of all the LIQUOR in tho CITY
Accordingly, aacn, the hour "f ma
nrsat, rs'e work commenced under ue
direction vt csfG;n.tterS of citizens ~
all the wards. Ilunl,e,ls If barrels ct
lionor were rolled INTO the street and
| the heads Knocked in. The cutters
ran with \ liquor fre>het, and the flames
til!ei aud impregnated the air. Cases
OF liquor were tossed into the street
from, third story windows, and knocked
into i thousand pieces. A the work
progressed, some struggling C"nFrder
ate soldiers, rctreaiiny thronyh tie
city, managed to ct hold of quantity
Of liquor From THE mome:h law and
order ceased to exist. Chaos came,
an 4 panlcmoniam rcigncd. BtGnk
with vile liquor, the soldiers, sal i"
belong to Garri,' cavalry, roans"d
from store 10 store on Main street, fol
lowed by reckless crowd, arunk ~
they; with the butts If ,hti- mu>kc,
dashed in the plate glass Of the etore
doors, and, entering, made = wreck Of
every tts,ns witt. the ee!ery,H Of m s-'c.
rJewelry stores, clethng stores, boo
and hat stores, and confpe'innery
stores, were objects Of special a'trsc
ton The pillsgers, besi, rememhc'ed,
were not Federal soldiers, but Coniei
crate straegIe,s. Yhe following are
some Of the stores thus robbed: Jernrl's
jewerly store, Mitchell sE Tvier's Wv
elry store, Lemons trimming store
Antonio's confectionery store, P,zennts
confectionery store, and numbers #
OF hers, nj on Main street. "
"Whilc the conf ,yrl;ion that origin
ated in Shocko's ware house was 'ra
yiny, the Debril warehouse, located On
Cary street, and stored with tobacco,
took fire, and the fire swrp; over sever
al squares. The Hcnrico County Conr,
House was destroyed. Tnc clerk
office and jai. were saved. Smiths
tobacco factory, on Twenty first street,
and Crews factory, on Cary anil Twen
ty first streets, woke also burned, be
sides many dwellings,.
"About daylight. on Monday morning
the city was .shdke. to 1t, foundations
by the ex plos,on proceelin, from The
blowing up of the Confederate iron
clads in the river. The Patrick Henry
vas in flames at Rockets aai the navy
yard and all the public buildings
therein situated were in process u
destruction. Several Of the smaller
vessels were 'burneE at the city
wharvca.
al . o'clock the evacuation having
been completed, al far rs the CD',fede
crate army was concerned, Gre was sci
to the brio! = =. aud these s,ructa'es
were soon in flames and fell into tho
liver. The last wan,an ard unneoes
sary part Of the general Burning was
the destruction Of the immense q ur
ing mills If Messr.. iiaxall & Co, on
the liver bank. Tie suIs were the
largest aud mos, extensive Of any on
this continent
"The order Of the city is excellent
since the Occupation. We 'i.u'. no'
heard any complaint o. the put #
ciil1.,.s alainSt taa soldiers W. are
ulat, ttGi the spilinrs have founl no
reason to'uompIan Of the conduct Of
the cit,zens we trus; this graft. ing
state Of afI.irs will continue