The New York herald., 1871-10-11
RIOT in PHILADELPHIA,
Fight Between COlOred Men
and Whites.
A SQUAD OF POLICE ATTACKED.
Four Men Killed and a Number
Wounded.

PHILADELPHIA. Oct TO- 1871.
Serious riots have broken out In the southern
part OF the city. Four or ave men have been
killed and wounded.
THREE BRIGADEs or MILITIA
have been ordered to the scene OF the troubles
Haggerty. . lieutenant OF police, haa been ar
rested by order OF Judge Allison aad held In 81 900
to answer the charge Of oostructing the polls.
THE TROUBLE
first commenced between the white and colered
men at Eighth anu Fitzwater streets. The crowd,
drawn together by the report Of fight, numbered
nearly thousand persons. A shower of paving
stones was nred into this assemblage, and imme-
diately afterwards the fight commenced in earnest
Pistols were used, and number OF men
armed with bright new muskets charged
about and fired into the crowd
THE BATTLE
continued a. the crowd passed up Eighth
street to Lombard down Lombard to Sev-
enth down Seventh to South and through
South to Sixth street. The streets, courts and
alleys were swarming with men who fired upon
each other. While the fight In Lombard street con-
tinued number OF c0l0red men, armed with mus
kets came out OF an alley just below Seventh street,
and charged upon squad of police officers
who were backed by host of shirt
seeved Supportera and being beaten back retreated
into tavern, taking up their positions at second
story windows. From this position
THEY FIRED A voLLEY,
which was spiritedly returned. and for ten minutes
the neignborhood loud with the reports Of fire.
arms. while MISSILES paving stones and bricks
whistled through the air. Chief OF Police Mulhol.
land was present during the riot, and did
his best with the small force Of men lie commanded
to quell the disturbance. He did not succeed how
ever, until over two hundred shots had been fred
score Of persons wounded and, as reported, four
men killed. Half dozen men were sn0t In Lon-
bard street and carried or by their riends but how
simply they were wounded cannot be stated.
Chief Mulholland succeeded in
RESTORING ORDER
After taking the ringeaders OF both parties into
custody. The riot Is attributable, by those who
watched its origin, to the itreatment OF the coored
voters Eighth and Fitzwater Streets and more or
less at all the polls in the fourth and fifth wards.
The following ls
LI5T OF THE CASUALTIES,
AS far as reported
Admitted 70 Hospital-James Steward, head badly
cut; Henry Lewis (colored), shot In the head and
foot BY policeman at Sixth and Lombard streets:
Frank Brook, oGncer OF the seventeenth district
struck In the stomach, at the corner OF Sixth and
Shippen streets; Daniel Redding struck In right
temple; William Perry (coioredh shot in nip; Se-
phen Baker (c0l0redh shot In side; Charles b.
Davis aged eighteen years, struck with q brick
on the head and badly cut; William Badsbone, shot
in leg by unknown white men at Eighth and South
streets; Lewis Baldean, shot In leg; William r.
COOPER colored. cut with razor In head and right
shoulder and end Of right thumb cut on; John
Fansctt, wounded, at 493 Oxford street; Frank
Ford. shot in side, at Eighth ana South streets;
John Montgomery, wounded in face and
head; Charles Johnson (coorcd). shot in face at
Eighth and Lombard streets.
Klled:-Isaac Chase (coored). killed on his own
door step with an axe Octavius Leaho. principal Of
the Coored High School, shot dead during an argu-
ment on the street,