Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1880-10-18

club, and another Is IL at Ii was % issd
by men obstrrOting the street.
Be all these things true or not the
difficulty grew almost sponta neously
from some disturbance, into q terrible
scene Of
RIOT AND BLooDSHRD.
A number Of pistol shots were ex.
changed between the marching clubs
and the crowds on the side walk, and
then the men in line broke in confusion
and ran In all directions. The crowd
on the side walk was composed chief.
ly Of colored people, men women and
children. and party Of less than
dozen oolored men quickly gathered on
the pavement In front Of National Hall.
Nearly ell of them were armed with
pistols. In few minutes the scattered
clubs reformed after q manner and
cans up the street again firing pistols
into the crowd and houses, and throw.
ing stones and brickbats Ia all di.
rections. An ex.soldier who saw
the whole affair says that it had the
appearance OF skirmish line. The col
ored men returned the fire and shouts,
yells and curses of the oombatants, To-
getheIl With the cries Of the wounded, at
simes made the reports Of the pistols in.
distinct.
The clubs In the rear Of the process
sion, now coming up, made the crowd
in the street quite dense, and the less
valorous Of these new comsrs created
great confusion In their endeavors to
get out Of the way Of danger. Mean
while the fusillade increased, ana the
work Of bullet, buokshot and brick
bat became more effective. The white
men fred wildly, and one or two were
shot by friends. Three or four men
were shot down on both sides and .
large number were injured. among
them being several wonien and chill
dren. Active firing continued for sew.
srsl minutes, and finally the oolored
men took 10 their heels before q charge
Of the Democrats, who outnumbered
then twenty to one.
CHARGING TIE NALL.
The skitmish ragged principally in
front Of National Hall. In the second
story o festival was in progress and
the room was half full Of colored wO-
men and children. When the rabbls
saw the handful Of men retreat they
made rush for the hall and swarmed
into the lower apartments and up the
stairway, with hoarSe cries Of "kill the
l--niggers, ""burn the place down"
10. The Ihrong which was unable TO
enter the building rained a shower Of
bricks and stones through the windows
and into the transparency of the Hig-
gins club, which hung over the main
entrance. 1t has been stated that dur
ing the Gght the second story Of the
building was full of men whO fired
down on the parade. This is untrue.
When the furious mob entered they
found none but women and children,
and these to escape leaped out of the
second story windows. Many were
unable TO do 80 and were bsaten with
torches and clubs. Among those who
we're injured by the leap from the win
dow to the ground were Hester Veasey
and Josephine Gibbs. A woman named
Dickson made the leap successfully but
was shot two or three times by the an
cry crow d. By this time the men out
side were like band Of
INPURlATRD DExeHS.
They were bent on desperate mis-
chief. Two women came down the
stairs together and at them the crowd
rushed. ORcsr Richards rode in and
kept the mob from one Of them and
Marshal Brady snatohed from the
hands of man q pistol aimed at the
head Of the other just in time to prevent
murder being done. .
While the stree! was the scene Of all
this tumult GENE one made the PROPOSE
ton in loud tone, to burn "the--
placs down. This was received with
loud assent and party set of to find
material with which to start the fire.
Some Of these went to Mr.. Connor's
stable and insisted upon carrying away
bay and straw, and we're only prevent
cd from doing 30 after much difficulty.
Having at length broken every pane
OF glass in the hall and done much
damage in other ways, among which
was ransacking the room, in which the
festival was being held and carrying
of everything Of portable nature, the
mob surged up Ninth street. The first
building they passed was Bzion A. M.
K. church and shouts of"Lst's burn
the church" were heard. They did
not 10 quite SO far as that, but fred
pistols and threw stones at 1t, thus
breaking half Of the glass in the lower
windows.
The crowd turned down French from
Ninth, and, in passing, bombarded
every house occupied by colored people
with stones and bricks. Among the
places thus damaged we're John Chip
pey's barber shop, Peter 8. Blake's
barber shop and Andrew Morris con-
fsctionery stand. Many pistol shots
were fred through the windows.
ALMOST ARSON.
While these scenes were going on up
French street the disorder around the
hail had been renewed. The crowd
gathered and was composed In q large
mart of the scattered members OF the
clubs. Feeling ran high. Once more
The desire to burn the building became
rampant. One Of our leading citizens
at this junoture appeared and tried to
calm the crowd. While he was speak
ing one Of the mounted officers Of the
parade rode mp and ordered the build
ipa TO be fred. The police, who BY
this time had put in an appearance for
the first time took no notice OF the re-
ouest of a son Of 8. d. Forbes to check
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