The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-07-13
TERRIBLE RIOT.

A Party of Ornngemen Attacked by Laborers-
Three of the Assailants KiIled-FearfuI
Scenes-Intense Excitement, etc.
In accordance with the arrangements per-
fected at meeting held in the Cooper Institute
yesterday morning, about two thousand five
hundred men, women, aud children, members
of the American Protestant Association, " bet
ter known as the Orange Society, marched up
Eighth avenue to Elm Park yesterday, there to
celebrate the anniversary of the battle of the
Boyne, gained by King William the Third over
10 wind y their picnic by holding grand ball
in the par. How differently their celebration
terminated nay be gathered by the following
THE FIRST THREATENING.
AS the procession passed by Fourth street, its
participants in full Orange regala, and the bands
playing the ''Boyne Water" some two hundred
men of the lower class of Irish laborers assem-
bled and followed it, vowing vengeance on the
processionists. In the Foty-seventh Street
Station House an inquest was being held, and
though word of this threatening proceeding
was given the officers in charge, no attempt was
made to restrain the mob following and threat
entng the processlonists.
THE FIRST ASSAULT.
About half-past o'clock the combined gang
from downtown and Boulevarders assembled in
Ninetieth street and began storming the Orange
party inside the park, and firing voleys of pistol
shots, which were promptly replied to from
inside. No serious danger appears 10 have
arisen from this assault. A message was sent to
Captain Helme, who sent Sergeant John Kelly
with sixteen men to the scene of the riot. The
police officers drove the assailants of the Orange
men away from Ninetieth street, and chased all
the stragglers off. The gang then broke into
two parties of about three hundred each.
THE FIGHT IN THE PARK.
The first of the parties went by Ninth avenue,
and broke in the fence of the park there near
Ninety-thir street, and entering the park
began beating the Orangemen women, and chill
dren, with clubs, hand-staves, shovels, and every
class of weapon, also using pistols. The fight
continued for fully half an hour. Both parties
went in with vengeance. Small trees were
torn up and converted into clubs, the hand-rails
of the park were made to answer the same pur-
pose, and every piece of old iron about the place
was made deadly weapon. The fight was of
the most intense kind, brutal and ruffianly;
women and children were not spared.
THE SECOND FIGHT.
The second party of the assailants went by
Eighth avenue, and intercepted q large party of
the Orapgemen, who had retreated from the
wood. They at once made an attack on them,
and for half an hour the conflict in this place
was of worse nature than in the park ITSELF
Only two policemen were near the scene, all
Captain Helme's force, with this ex-
ception, being in the park. and the two
beed moO of i've men
were not so many clubs used here as in the
wood. The combatants were principally armed
with pistols, which they used to great effect.
The fight continued for nearly half an hour,
when the reinforcements telegraphed for by
Captain Richard Helme arrived. On the dis
turbance being quelled, the body of James
Brady, aged II, of Sixty-fifth street and Eighth
avenue, was found lying by the roadside. Brady
was one of the assaulting party. He was shot
| with pistol in the back of the head, and in
addition had his skull fractured by blow of q
| club.
| ANOTHER BATTLE.
AS many of the Orange party left Elm Park
on the first inception of the riot, large proper
| tion of them escaped any injury or attack. But
those who left later without police escort met
with troublous reception at the junction OF
Eighth avenue and Fifty-ninth street. There a
large mob OF Irish lay in waiting and attacked
the street cars. The mob burst in the sides oi
the cars, threw large boulders of rock at the
occupants of the cars, and used clubs on their
craniums. This pleasant entertainment was
stopped by the police arriving on the scene.
| THE DEAD.
On three low trestle beds in the basement o1
the Thirty-frst precinct lie the bodies of the
three men killed during the fight They ares
James Brady, aged seventeen, of Sixty-fiftt
street and Eighth avenue, shot through the
back of the head and skull fractured; -
Brady, aged fifty, shot in breast and stomach
an unknown man shot through the right side
and groin, died from internal hemorrhage
These are all that have actually died up tc
going to press.
Some twelve or ffteen others were wounded
several of them mortally.-N Y. World to-day
A STRUGGLE WITH A MAD DOG.