Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1884-04-10
BLOODY BUCKEYE RIOT.
nhic Details Of the Destruction
in Cincinnati by the
Infatuated Mob.
.tv-seven Lives Sacrificed and a
large number Wounded-The
Revised List.

Large
Revised List.
r,t in Cincinnati, of which ~threatenings
Sbeerd on Friday, broke out in earnest on
law and q large number of lives were sac
II and an immense amount of property,
n, ON account OF q verdict OF manslaughter
!. ! man named Benner for the murder
Gu;am Kirk, who had confessed the crime.
FRIDAY night, an attack was made on the
1be military were called out and fired on
.nob, from the windows. Among the
[ded were James Green, dying; Walter Fay,
James Turk, moSkJly wounded; X.
pr. wounded in thigh; Ed Enlleff, shot In
Todd, baiiy; ID. Charles Mus
no~lice-surgeon, slight wound. Finally
mob finding that Berner had been
,J away. dispersed. Benner was
In the State Pe~nitentiary at Columbus.
acape greatly incensed the people, and the
IL broke out afresh. The court house is
rims. and all that is left of il is the great
i walls and vaults, which are hoped to be
croof. but which are not opened. All re-
of every kind are destroyed, not one, so
"a Is known, being left What that entails
r;er imagined than described One of the
valuable law Libraries in the world il o
: cannot be collected nor titles proved.
military came only after the court
3 was in flames, and Cincinnati has paid
IL. indeed, for their folly. Shortly after
a few scattering militia men, upon whom
famed anxious TO wreak revenge for the
&k OF the early morn, appeared in tho
no intent upon joining their comrades In
eourt house. skill them, kill, kill!n was
III upon every side, while stones and mis-
81 Of every kind flow over and about them,
hing through the windows, battering down
rs and causing other destruction. BY a
Gle those stragglers escaped, but their as
nts, thus encouraged, pressed on the long
OF police to whose protection the militia
NJ owed their lives. The fusilade OF stones
Enued, the windows of the ~treasnrer's Office
n demolished and the rioting began in ear
flames, gaining Roadway, created a draft
hugh the building, and that increased their
y so that in a short time the lower story of
building looked like a huge furnace. About
40 o'clock the flames appeared through the
= of the auditors office, and in q short
Il the whole Office was ablaze. The flames
n, Of course fed by splendid fuel, the hun
Ais Of volumes of records burning very
$dly.
Nc crowd surged back and forth on Court
Net west Of Main, as a yolley was fired by
militia. The court house square was
<ked with people, as was also the street up
- 10 MALL IN niain s1ees ulefe were
lew people a,ter tns nIst yol,ey, whore
Fral were woupdeu . knlea BEFORE Inc
koing Was nrea tle release o. lne men arrest
pa FTlday ahd lmprisoheu as lsaoers was ue-
poea ana refused. me cIowaw ouiu mere
aile~ NO one 20 approach tne E,e LOT Ihe
Pose OF exungulsning ~ an aiarm was
~, Dus wien .ne enslncs nIai,ea uo nle
y acogu pa tne auyic9.
np 2 F5rst reoiTant attemntad - drse
pa ~ bose in tha tree snrar,s of3ca and thew
kshed IN their efforss 10 reach the fire. after
kg waraed There was an explosion and q
D, and Capt Desmond dropped dead, with
Top Of his head shot of. This was the sig
h for q regular fugiladN. There was no
cher attempt 70 put out the flames until the
fgal Os the Eourteeuth regiment, which
ped y g squad facing the front, when one
ie tiles opened fire, killing . by-stander
ae siiiewask and peftf,tr q series of pistci
in return. Col. Fred Heube, in charge
aashAs gun, then turned az the crowd,
y w0 or three persons were wounded, the
pmsnt cleared the street in front Of the
|rt house
this vale and all night there was fighting
ng OK bs.5een the soldiers at the barbados
90 Doth the Jail ard court house and the
b. Tie latter party were mostly armed with
tols, scsne having guns. They would fire
the soldiers who would reply, and now and
IN avoiley they would drop n half dozen
? mob would howl and yell and charge for
"a only to be repulsed Nobody ever Sc
ed such & connected view of them as to en-
Q their number 10 be estimated, but count
spectators as all rioters, there must have
sn
AT LEAST TWENTY THOUSAND.
| not unlikely twice as MANY They ertend-
rHp MT oon,rsr s.aun - mr r--v
s.A-.ssD.Ia A -
nanay nSnt was coutp Cour street
ene nll.aa charged ON the crowd TWO OF
a. ou1aienans unies, Inc nrst was made ABOUT
= y = oiocA, wnen nve men were shot, tnree
u sna, were knIed Inc next yoliey was
= haom 'ne nortn, n q man killed and
y Soy mortaily wounded The third voliey
ION inc east, and resulted In the killing
nieh
!, = TT aeniarks OF the crowd were ~signincant
: rorn Oamppen counsel FOR Benner and
~ ~ msrs mime by everybody. Men
- T aWlul round oaths that II they couid
- n hun Oampoeil 2 the jury they would
p Len isAy-hl8n, ana then hurl them 10 nell
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