The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1884-04-12

| CINCINNATI, March 3l.-Early yester
| day morning the mob broke into The
armory of Battery B, took three cannon
and dragged them several miles, creating
| intense CONSERVATION. A police squad
| fired on them and recovered the pieces,
| but not before the mob had b> oxen sew.
efal stores open to hunt for ammunition.
| The artillery was turned over to the
sheriff, anu is now mounted at the jail.
The courthouse fire was subduet, bu,
the building was badly wrecked.
| All the records were DESTROYED.
| The rioters dispersed at dawn
OF day, but mutterings throughout yes.
| terday indicated a renewal of hostilities
| last night. At $50 last evening the mob
gathered again, and met the troops at
| Court Street Market House, where five
| of the rioters were killed and twelve
| wounded. There was no more fighting
IN force after this, and il is believed the
worst is over. So far as known the
| killed number thirty and the wounded
| double that number.
CINCINNATI, March 3l.-At midday
| there Is no appearance OF relaxation OF
preparations for defense. Barricades of
barrels and every other sort of material
remain across all avenues of approach to
the county buildings and behind them
stand the militia with guns with fixed
bayonets. The police have been sent
away to their regular posts, and are OBJ
tanning some rest. Though the general
feeling is that there will be no further
outbreak, there is not lacking men who
predict otherwise.
-, RI,ot oIo4
fired this morning by militia, entered
the second intermediate school house on
Ninth Street, between Main and Walnut;
also that two men were shot. But these
reports have not yet been verified.
The physician attending Briggs Swift
says his condition is much i'm
proved, though his advanced age, 73
years, makes bis chaaces of recovery
less. MIR. Swift, with Henry Hanna,
was walking up Main Street toward
the court house. When at the
southeast corner OF Ninth and
Main Street soldier ordered
them to halt. They obeyed. Immedi-
ately afterward gun was discharged In
front of them and both fell, Mr.. Swift
shot through the thigh of the left leg.
In his fall he drew Mr.. Hanna with him,
who tainted from excitement.
1t has been ascertained with great sat
isfaction that nearly the entire set Of
records in the recorders office, contain
ing records of deeds, mortgages, ETC.,
is saved. A person familiar with the
office says not more than
fifty volumes of the records
are gone. covering transactions for al
most three years Of about thirty years
ago. This viii be of immense value,
considering what else is lost. 1t is sup
posed the money 10 the treasury vaults,
and records in the probate Judges office
are safe, but the safes cannot yet be
opened.
At meeting of citizens committees
appointed by the Mayor a resolution was
adopted thanking the Governor and OHIO
National Guard for the efficient aid rem
dered the civil authorities aud pledging
their support to the Mayor ID the course
he has adopted, and promising to furnish
additional means II. IN the opirI ION OF
the Mayor, additional force is necessary
Resolutions were also adopted appoint
ing a subcommittee to prOv!do roons
for the use of the courts and recon-
mendipg that the count of common
pleas proceed at once to dispose OF the
criminal cases. The M0yor was re-
quested to select an executive commit zee
of fifteen from the mem hers of the meet
ing for advice and counsel, to whom Ell
matters should be referred.
COLUMBUS, March 31.-Adsioes from
Cincinnati are such that at noon Gov.
Hoaily ordered the troops en- route 10
return. The Fourth aud Fourteenth
Regiments have been relieved, and the
rest of the troops have been ordered to
remain in Cincinnati till further orders.
The city will be guarded til Wednesday
Mt least.
CINcINSArI. april There was no
disturbance Jaat night. The militia pre-
vauted the congregation os people ard
in every instance their orders were re-
spectfully obeycd. Several drunken
men we're arrested. and the police closed
The saloons at midnight. Members OF
the Grand Army of the Republic as
sisted the police in patrolllug the city.
DDi1g the night shoulders g fire 10
the recorders Office was famed into
htmes, but it vas promptly extin-
guished.
About 5 O'Clock last evening fatal ac-
ci1ent hsppered IN front OF the jail. A
number of soldiers of the Governor g
Guard, Columbus, were lying against
the stone wall on the sidewalk asleep,
when one of the guns leaning against
| the wall WIS knocked down and dis
| charged. The ball struck the wall aud
glaDcing struck Iserall S. Gatz in the
| in 10
| removed to the hospital IN dying con-
dlfion. Gatz was clerk in a railroad
offics at Columbus.
The lists of killed and wounded com
| piled yesterday make the number of
killed forty eight. There are 126
| wounded at the hospitals. Numbers
are known to have been carried to then
| homes, and as they belonged to the mob
their names will not be reported by
their families unless it is found they are
dangerously hurt. The total number OF
casualties was probably not far from
200, not including those who were
dubbed by the police or hurt by brick
bats. The following deaths have oc-
Cured since last reports: Fred
| Bickenhorst, Leroy Simmons, Chas,
Miller, Andrew Nichols, Henry Nei-
never, Phillip Raabe, and Thos. P.
Green. The following are the most Sc
rious cases now at the hospital, and the
death Of any of them is momentarily ex-
pected: Lee Simons, shot through the
right lung. Leo Noeelgessang's is Pc
euliar case. The entire top of his skull
| was blown off by a shot from the Cat
ling gun, and the patients brain is laid
bare, yet he is apparently conscious of
his surroundings, and seems to have
some, though feeble, control of his mus
cles. Charles Miller, an old German,
whose wife and daughter are with him,
is also in a critical condition, with q
wound IN his left temple, from which
protrude his brains.
The morning has been free from any