Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1877-07-27

lice and v~igilantes dashed forward
The mob met them
with stones and pistols. About
one hundred shots were poured
into the mob, and reaching close quar-
tiers clubs were used with such strik-
ing effect that after a brief tussle the
hoOdlums we're routed and scattered,
many severely wounded. This effect.
uaily wound up any further hostile
demonstrations in that quarter, the
crowd scattering into small parties.
some going home, others going to-
wards the streets and neighboring
tboroughfares. Meantime squads of
the Safety Committee had been DIS
patched i'm every direction, patrolling
the city and dispensing gangs OF hood
lums wherever met. The crowd which
had been raiding the Chinese houses
on Howard and Folsom, smashing
nearly every one OF those streets, now
met the stragglers from the scene OF
the fire, and moved from the corner OF
First and Folsom streets TO Market and
New Montgomery, bowling like fiends.
They penetrated Kearny street to the
number of about 500, but at the corner
of Suffer street they were met by a
detachment OF ~vigilantes on the double
quick, who charged and drove them
back 20 Market street. Meantime an
other force of police and citizens ran
along Montgomery street. The mob
we're thus placed between two fires,
and a vigorous attack at once com
menced on them. No fire arms were
used, but heavy clubs told with fear
full effect. The crowd broke in the
widest panic, scattering down in the
by-streets and into houses, throwing
themselves on the pavement, any
thing to escape the rough punishment
being melted out to them. Many were
struck senseless, and there are sore
heads enough i'm town this morning to
form a boilers convention. This prac-
tically wound up the excitement for
the night. The baflled mob rtreated
homeward, the police and Safety Com
mittes scattered out in squads in all
directions, and by 5 o'clock in the
morning everything was as quiet a.
the grave. The fire in the vicinity of
the dock was got under control by
midnight. The oss can yet hardly be
estimated, but is supposed to reach
half a million dollars.
There were between four or five
million feet of lumber stored on the
wharf, besides some five thousand tons
Of coal belonging to Il. Richard IL Co.
Ii Is impossible to obtain full and accu
rate information as TO the number
killed and wounded during the nights
riotiDg, but the following are reported:
Alex Genoria, Pacific street, hit on thu
head with a stone, slight scalp wound
IN the melee; at the Pacific Mail
Wharf. Officer Wilson, hit on the arm
and knee by cobble stones, latter
wounds severe, kneecap fractured;
Thomas Baxter, boiler maker. was
shot in the chest at the Pacific Mail
Wharf riot, dangerous, perhaps fatal;
Joseph Miller, of the Bulletin, back
part OF the head, on Third street, bull
let only penetrated his head a short
distance, and when extracted was fiat
tened. As engine 205 was coming
down Pacific street, en- route to the fire
at the mail dock, ii ran owe a man Al
the corner of Stockton street, killing
him. A young maj named Upton,
employed at Donohue, Kelly & Co.'S
bank, was accidentally shot in the
groin while marching down BesIe
street with a detachment OF the Com.
mittee of Safety. by a man in front oil
him, who let his pistol drop while tax
ing it from his pocket. A. n. Kelly
was knocked down by a hose cart on
Bryant street. He was hurt in the
head and had a leg broke. j. j. Con
nelly. driver of No. | hose. shot by the
mob from the hill, while seated in the
cart, in the leg; not dangerous. Sam.
uel Scronse, son of Martin Scronse,
teamster, Battery street, vas on
the truck Of No. l hose with J
J. Connolly, and was shot i'm.
mediateiy after Connolly in the side.
lie died within Is minutes after. The
shot came from the mob on the hill.
1t is doubtful If this report is correct,
as no notice OF the death has bean filed
at the Coroner's Office. u. Z. Payson,
special officer tor the evening, was
shot in the head, not serious. A young
man named Fox, clerk in Donohue,
Kelly Il Co.'s bank. and special for
the evening, shot himself accidently
by his pistol dropping out Of his
pocket while coming down the hill
after the riot was over. He was shot
in the thigh, and is supposed to be in
a critical condition. Regular officer
Pomeroy was shot in the leg at the
riot. Regular officer Smith was hit on
the head with a rock, not dangerous.
Special officer Warehouse was hit with
a rock on the head, not dangerous.
A fireman was struck in the eye with
a rock, very painful. One of the mob
by the name Of Carr, engaged in the
fight on friedrich street, Mas severely
clubbeed and cut on the head. He
was taken into a house near by, and
his wounds were dressed by the sur.
geon Of ST. Mary's hospital.
During a skirmish on Frederick
street between the mob and police, a
man named Hayes received a bullet in
the knee, supposed TO have been fired
by one of the Citizens Committee.
Two hoodlums, Bailey and Thompson,
were shot on Rincon Hill. Joseph
Wentworth, a sailmaker. was run oveI
by a hose-cart at the Beale-street fire.
Regular officer Wilson was struck on
the side of the head 10y one of the
Beale- street rioters. The wound il
dangerous. One man was killed and
four were wounded of the mob in the
fight at the top Of First-street hill
Three of the men making the charge
We're slightly wounded. The rioters
who were shot were carried Off by their
companions and their names could moi
be learned. 1t is quite possible thaI
the revision and further inquiry may
materially change the character of the