St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1884-04-19

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| was driven out.
the mob is not at this hour (midnight)
known. Two policemen were shot by
| the rioters, one militiaman, one civil
ian and one boy, the last badly hurt.
The mob remained outside bowling,
They gathered up material and
made bonfire against the
strong, thick stone walls of the jail.
The flames made a great light and yell
was raised that the Jail had been fred. 1t
looked as though the mob had deter
mined on q wholesale holocaust. An
alarm was turned on and the engines
came to the scene, but could not get near
the place for the crowd, and seeing what
it was, went back again. There was no
ent, bowling as very demons, but doing
nothing.
No confusion was ever worse. No one
situation there. 1t was an hour and a
half before boy shot inside could be
brought out.
During the confusion it was next
to impossible to get at the
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were quoting down some. It then
appeared that there was an actual con-
flict between the mob and military When
the inner door between the reception
room and cell rooms was broken down
the military fired on the mob at that
place and Lew Kent, a laborer
and member Of the mob, was
shot and killed. This seemed to break the
spirit of the mob, though they did not re-
tire hastily. A number of brickbats were
thrown by them at the soldiers and po-
lice, but generally there was not much
bitterness of feeling displayed ON either
side. The great superiority of the de-
tenders of the jail over the unarmed and
impYomptu mob was so manifest when the
former opened fire that it would
have been utter folly to make any further
effort. Some twenty-five or thirty men
were arrested in jail. The iailer's resi-
dence in the jail, which was entered by
portion of the mob, was rudely handled,
the windows broken and furniture
smashed. From this number of men
made their way into the kitchen and
thence to the lower corridor. After the
apparent REIMBURSEMENT of the main eff
fort to get at the prisoners the MOB linz
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bats at the windows.
1:45 A. M.-News just comes from the
jail that the mob is not defeated yet
They have broken into the armory of
the Veteran Regiment and taken the
guns. More firing has been done at the
jail. The mob is now looking for ammu.
milton with prospect of success.
The mob broke into the National Guard
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formed three abreast and marched to the
jail. They shot away all their ammuni-
and then marched down Main street and
broke open Kittredge's gun store, which
they rifled, taking everything they could
lay their hands son in the shape of arms
and ammunition.
"a. NAT this hour the number of
The mob is perhaps from 1000 to 5000. |
They are swearing they will yet get in |
and hang all the murderers inside. They |
have procured barrel of coal oil and |
poured it over the Sheriff's office, swear |
ing they. would yet burn down the build |
ng, and some are meditating an attack |
IN the gun stores for arms. The militia |
ind police are all on the inside awaiting |
developments.
The mob fred on the soldiers when the
after came up from the cellar. The
nurdererS in the cells were scared nearly |
% death. johnson, the black bunker, was
nearly white.
The First Regiments armory has been
guarded for three nights in anticipation
If this affair, but the Veteran regiment,
If which Sheriff Hawkins is Colonel, did
lot take the same precautfon.
2;l5 A. M.-Newton Cobb, of Man.
chester, o., was shot in the shoulder by
| soldier, through the jail window. Cobb
vas by-stander on the sidewalk. The
crowd claim soldiers are firing un.
upon the outsiders merely
ooking on. On the other hand the
ioldiers dread an effort to burn the
place or blow it up by rolling coal oil
barrels into the basement and Justify
themselves in clearing the sidewalks on
hat account. It is said that number of
yomenspectators have been hurt with
andom shots. The firing of guns is still
heard at intervals.
2:30 A. M.-The firing by soldiers from
ihe windows has been terribly destruct-
We. The following wounded have been
gathered into the drugstore at Court and
Walnut streets and at the hotel near:
James Green, dying.
Walter Fay, dying.
James Turk, MORALLY wounded.
F. Soehn, bad wound in thigh,
Ed Duleff, shot In the legs.
These were all bystanders, and there Is
growing bitter feeling against the
oldiers.
The mob has taken all the arms they
want from Kittredge's store, including .
mall cannon.
CINCINNATI. o., March y.
Berner was sentenced to twenty years
a the Penitentiary, the full limit
f the law. It appears that after
he sentence he was disguised and placed
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