Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-03-31
THE CINCINNATI RIOT.
Another Night OF Blood--Sccncs OF
Terror and Dismay.
The Court-House and Trcasnrer's ONCE
Burned by the Mob.
All the State Troops Called out by the
Governor.
Intense Hostility OF the Rioters Toward
the Militia.
List OF the Killed aud Wounded Nearly
One Hundred Victims.


Cincinnati, March 2H.-Midnight.--
Such night of blood rs this has been
has not before darkened the history of
Cincinnati. II Is impossible TO ascer-
tain the true situation Men have
been killed several squares from the
scene Of the riots One nnn has Just
been shot at Fountain square, six
squares from the court house. The
court house iire was started ~
A. ROLLING IN hARi'Ei-s OF COAL OIL,
setting II ON fire anG keeping every
body out. Lieut.. desmond entered to
subdue the flames, and was instantly
! kNini The flames had their own way,
lntn nsp he eininvs, and the fire went
Z ~, lsitbeokoa. iiaGeh ,Wlr The
\ arcm tsueu,fe e strongly lailt and
1 cost pr,b6h3Y puaTicf ~ q mirlon
dollars. and wac nade To withstnd
| Are as fns ms nnssibla. RS loss would
be ifrtp sIabie, as IL conta As .il-
| b,e records. some OF them of great A il
torical interest and ,a,ue. and the
second best law library In the Uni cd
States
A carriane factory near Inv is also re-
ported on fire. and in the t,,rsent chm
otie condition of affairs there Is moth
ing to prevent untold loss from Are
except the lack of material to rive IL A
start. When the mob had robbed
| Powell's gun store Il was fired. The
patrol wagon soon responded 10 the
alarm, and the mob killed one man
and wounded another. This fire was,
however, extinguished. Tho mob has
lost all control and seems bound on de-
struction, pure and simple.
THE BURNING COURT HOUSE,
pives no aid In n a original umrnose nj
| ynohIng the n,urderers and its de.
| stulglion 0niv rl' Ioas Ia The dis
,frnga Fba fTifo, p,t,si ~ MN, has
| Eeen n,erslitsY Vhstl,rr h, C,afiittfr
mn NV poldiere eiitlaof ia tDia ~
ng.Aing hn been heut lnn inside
the Jail Tor Gay plst hoy IN sslsssssss
yet estimate the loss OF lifn or lA.nry
by wounds. At Habig's four deau
men, unknown, are lying, and at the
Cincinnati hospital are many more,
while twenty or more wounded are
there, and wagons still coming with
more. While the neleageied troops
and police in the jail and courthouse
were keeping the mob mt hay, they
were anxlously waiting for the prom
Used troops from Columbus. ard Day.
ton. The delay of an hour sptmed an
age, while the flames were raging,
and the wild mob, now wholly bc.
You'd any control or reason, filled
the streets, ready 10 kill any one
or all. IL was nearly midnight
| when the Fourteenth regiment
reached the scene. with determined
pluck and skill, they formed for the
fearful work of
CLEARING THE STREETS.
! Tboir work was accon,nIilhed md
n,av ara now in ihe ,nii.vn,d With il,e
hasi,. gad y,,n,da aid noIics The
Enn,sh rogiment arrived at the other
ia ~ ,,,a dix, ana MAR n,arch,nc
s na., ~ W ~ n.y. 1 ~ ~ sn,.,,n y, uo
p Pr ,,,r ns 90 No., haaI' w. ~.
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aepo.. No'ore, '''u ~ "apsa, a,u
un 1 e. haro ,a,oo KY III,
WHY 10 s, s."pnI1ih a.a ,,,'
acuoh poyeipoi ionu,s,
anu mas reuu,vua iepis oiue,tus ,ne
romLtn ies,n,,n ~, w. , ,hs'is h w s"o w.,
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J"'Ii n Uu rnnaa ." T an }"n ~ r',s es
oi an ~ lo.Ao "I INT ,,non hsng fo ~
81 thai The mob was still in force and
,Ya III, s ,ha -, ,a'.,S ~ II, ,iai,,i,s, ~
,hn cnnri. hnuse though moi ann,rentiv
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS anvti,ina II Inns been
modified with n view of ayeriinv
further bloodshed.