The Bad Lands cow boy. [volume] (Little Missouri, Dakota [i.e. N.D.]) 1884-1886, 1884-04-10
BLOODY BUCEEYE RIOT.
ssraphic Details Of the D estrncrlons
Wronght in Cincinnati by the 4.
Infuriatad Mob.
Twenty-seven Lives Sacrificed ana a
Large Number Wounded-The
Il, NJ a Revised List. b ~

0atuEQhy huu large unIuDerl OIsilveS We're sac
fificed and an immense amount 1of property,
and all on account Of a verdict Of manalaughter
against q man named Benner for the murder
Of William Krk, who had confessed the crime.
On Friday night, an attack was made on the
jail The military were called out and fired on
the mob from the windows. Among the
wounded were james Green, dying; Walter Fay,
dying; James Turk, mortal)y Wounded; u.
Zohner, wounded in thigh; Ed Eulleff. shot in
leg; jackson Todd, badly DR.. Charles Mus
croft police surgeon, slight wound Finally
the MOB finding that 5Bernor had been
spirited away, dispersed Benner i,.. was
taken to the State Penitentiary at Columbus,
His escape greatly incansed the people, and the
in ruins, and all that is left of is tho great
heavy walls and vaults, which are hoped to be
fire proof, but which arc not opened. All re-
cords Of every kind are destroyed, not one, so
far aa is known, being left What; that entails
lis castor imagined than described One of the
most valuable law libraries in the world is gone.
Taxes cannot be collected nor titles proved
The military came only after tbs court
house was in flames, and Cincinnati has paid
dearly, indeed, for their folly Shortly utter
dusk few, scattering militia men, upon whom
all seemed anxious to wreak revenge for the
wreck OF tho early morn, appeared iii the
throng, intent upon joining their comrades in
the court house. Kill them, ill, kill II was
heard upon every side, while stones and mis-
,siles brewery kind flow over and about them,
crashing through tho windows, battering down
doors and causing other destruction. BY d
miracle those stragglers escaped, but their as
sailants, thus encouraged pressed on the long
limo of police to whose protection the nlilitiS
men owed their lives. Tho fusilade3 Of stones
continued, the windows of the treasurer 8 Office
were demolished and the rioting began in ear-
The flames, gaining headway, created 8 draft
through the bull ding, and that increased their
fury go that in q short time the lower story OF
the builling looked like huge furnace. About
1880 o'clock the flames appeared through the
aoor Of the auditors Office, and in a.short
were, of course fed by splendid fuel, the hun
rapidly. 4, : IS : ~
The crowd surged back and forth on Cont
street west Of Main, as asyolley was fired by
the militia. Tho court house square was
as far as Mafn. On Main street there were
very few people after the first volley, where
several were wounded and killed. Before the
building was fred the release of the men arrest
ed on Friday and imprisoned as leaders was de-
manded and refused The crowd would there
purpose Of extingu fishing it. An alarm was
sent in, but when the engines arrived the fire.
men we're advised to return to the houses, and
they acted on the advice 5!3.s
= Capt tDeyine and T. J. Desmond, captain of
Company G. First regiment, attempted to drag
line of hose in the treasnrer's Office, and they
perished in their efforts to reach the fire, after
being warned There was an explosion and
fash, and Capt Desmond dropped dead, with
the top Of his head shot of. This Was tho sig
nal for Q regular fusilada y There was no
further attempt to put out the flames until the
arrival Of the Fourteenth regiment, which
formed in squad facing the front, whom one
of the files opened fire, killing q by-stsnder
on the sidewalk and getting q series OF pistol
shots in return Col Fred Heube, in charge
of Calling gun, then turned at the crowd,
and two or three persons were wounded, the
regiment cleared the street in front Of the
court house t7
II All this while and an night there was fighting
going on between the soldiers at the barricades
before both tho Jail and court house and the
mob. The latter party were mostly armed with
pistols, some having guns. They would fire
on the soldiers who would reply, and now and
then in ayolley they would drop q half dozen.
The mob would howl and yell and charge for
ward only to be repulsed Nobody ever Sc
cured such q connected view Of them as to en-
able their number to be estimated, !. but count
ing spectators as all rioters, there must have
been Y3iSfi S n ~ 81
LEAST TWENTY THOUSAND. Ri s5.j
ard not unlikely twice as many. They EXTEND