The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1876-09-21
and several pistol-shots were fred at
i REscUE BIZ THE POLICE.

and several pistol-shofs were fred at
him.
| .Isd RESCUE BIZ THE POLICE. p
! In ile midst os.the cruel scene Lieu
| tenast Geldin and two mounted Po-
'iceMen came up to the spot, rode
rig into the crowd, aud, after club
bing several of the mob, succeeded in
arresting their victim, and carried him
home in an almost lifeless condition.
At this time one of the mob ap-
| preached the reporter and told him
that he knew him, and that it would
| be best for him TO go home, but be-
fore an answer could be made, the
crowd yelled out:
"There's another white son of a
b-h! Go for him." At which they
made a charge. The reporter was hit
on the head with a slung- shot, while
twenty more of them stood around
with clubs urging them to kill him.
A Policeman came up at this moment.
kept off the crowd with his club until
assistance arrived. and the reporter
was then escorted to the station-house,
In about thirty minutes another re-
! porter fl ON the News and Courier ar
rived On the scene. Like the first, he
| too was surrounded and threatened,
but this time the streets had been
thoroughly cleared of white men, and
the reporter had only to run the gaunt-
let of curses both loud and deep. ie-s
The Police patrolled the streets, but
their numbers were too few to war;
rant them in arresting the mob of
black savages. On his way down,
however, the reporter met with diff
ferent reception. At almost every
corner in King street was assembled
black mob, and the appearance of
white face was the signal for a gener-
al fusiiade of curses, rocks and pistol
balls. Az the night progressed the
crowds at the corners gradually thin
ned out. and by daylight white man
could walk up King or Meeting street
with a tolerable degree of safety.
| In DETAILS OF THE RIOT.
About fifteen minutes after the COM
mencement of the riot the news reach
ed the lower wards. The negroes ev-
identity prepared forit, for they imme-
diately commenced 10 assemble at the
various street corners. AT the corner
of Meeting and Queen streets fully 800
had assembled i'll less than thirty min
utes. They pulled off the paling of
1 fence in that neighborhood and armed
1 themselves. Every white man who
passed was halted and insulted. At
the corner of King and Clifford streets
another crowd of about 100 had as
sembled. and no white man was al
lowed to pass them. z-siaa sssl isfi
4 About midnight, as three white
men were coming down King street,
/ they were assaulted and severely beat
en-, One of the party who was arme ed
drew his pistol and fired into the
crowd, but without hitting any of the
rioters. The mob speedily overlook
him., knocked him down, and after
beating him severely, they went off.
From the time the riot started until
its close, it was impossible for a white
man to walk down King street with
out running the gauntlet of dozen
pistOl-shots at every corner. =
/ The negroes not only stationed
themselves at the corner and assaulted
every white man who passed, but they
paraded the streets in mobs, inquiring
at every step for the rifle clubs. Once
they fancied themselves masters of
the situation, their insolence knew no
show himself on the streets without
risking his life.
| THE CASUALTIES.
It is more than probable that quite
a number of men, both white and
black, received wounds and bruises of
every description, but as those were
taken off to their homes full list of
the casualties cannot be obtained.
The report then gives partial list of
casualties, including two men mortal
ly and large number more or less Sc
riously wounded.
The coIored Democrats held their
meeting at Hibernia Hall, under the
protection of about one thousand
armed whites, and no attempt at dis
turbance was made, the colored riot
ers confining their demon strations to
roaming the streets in turbulent
crowds and firing off pistols and musk