Connecticut western news., 1884-04-09
THE CINCINNATI RIOT
Further Particulars of The Late Disturb-
 ance.
THE CITY ON SUNDAY.

THE CITY ON SUNDAY.
 A dispatch dated Sunday, says: To day the gravity of the situation im- presses every one. Everywhere solem- nity prevails. The appalling destruc- tion of property and frightful loss of life bring people to the realization of an aw- ful calamity. There is a notable ab- sence of mere curiosity seekers docking to the scene to-day. The place seemed to be regarded with dread, and at noon, when the weather was delightfully."- pleas ant, there was not so much travel on the on ordinary Sundays.
 About 8 o'clock Sunday night the reg iment from Columbus, guarding the Court street approach, was fired into by one of the mob from an alley. The troops answered the challenge by few shots, which were followed by a volley and several shots from the Gatling gun stationed there. The number of the injured cannot be ascertained. The firing continued at intervals in all directions.
 It was the purpose of the militia to clear the streets. One volley was fired down Main street, and resulted in the wounding of Mir. Briggs Swift, promi- nent pork packer, who was standing three squares from the Court House, in conversation with Henry Hanna, Third street broker. Mir. Swift was most seri- ously wounded, and had to be taken home in a carriage.
 At midnight Sunday the cordon of troops was enlarged to take in two squares in all directions around the Court House, and little if any firing was heard.
 There were some threats against the magnificent Music Hall, and many be- lieved the torch would be applied. The rumor that the military would occupy the hall as barracks, was the cause of the threatened attack against it.
 CHARACTER OF THE MOB.
 In reviewing the story of the riot Murat Ralstead of the Cincinnati Ga zette says The rioting on the first night was largely by workingmen of good character, who resented the fact that murderers who have money to setin motion the machinery of criminal law yers have had freedom here. The second night the spirit of the Commune ap- peared and petroleum was put to use, as by the Parisians, when they are pleased to burn their public buildings. The third night the number of determined men had been largely reduced and there were swarms of boys. Of the crowd that was smashing pawnbrokers' shops three were grown men and they were thieves. They had a rabble of boys, generally from seventeen to nineteen years of age, and one testified in the Police Court that he was ''thirteen going on fourteen years of age" Out of sixty rioters gathered in for attempting to seize a battery of cannon at Music Hall only ten were men. The rest were boys. Some were very bad ones, while others seemed to want excitement above all things. And so the crowds have depreciated from honest men, misguided but animated by righteous wrath kindled against a systematized infamy of the most outrageous character, to d vicious rabble of boys in the hands of the lowest desperadoes. The excited people had a real grievance to begin with. The ad- ministration of criminal law here has been damnable and the influence of sheer criminals in public affairs alarming. That which has happened will, we may hope, make irresistible the influence that leads to better ways.
 DINarporrs ELEMENT