The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1884-04-03

tors office the north side of Ninth.
Edward Rehm was shot through the calf of
his leg, making painful but not serious
wound. John Proth, a boy not eighteen
wound in his shoulder, which
will probably result in the loss of his
arm. At a saloon on Ninth street, beyond
Main, were found several dead and wound
foot. George Kolp was badly wounded in
the right leg below the knee. The bone was
shattered, At this place there were also
one could identify. Philip Raabe,
posed to be fatally injured. John Hearon,
shot through the head; died soon after.
Ed. Gallagher, also shot in the head; died
in few minutes. An unknown boy, aged
fourteen years, was shot through the head
from ear to ear. Joe Poister received
painful flesh wound in the leg. An unknown
boy slightly wounded in the arm. At 150
MAIN street young man with both
knees horribly mangfed was lying. Joseph
finely dressed young man shot through
the heart, died instantly. A fifteen-year-
old boy was shot through both legs below
the calf. Edward Keeler, shot through both
Vogelgesang, Columbus, wounded in the
arm shattered. Ben. Herzog was Shot in
the right knee whiis standing at the corner
OF Marin and Court. His wound IS not
dangerous. David Crimson was shot
through the leg. He will recover. Frank
Hetteschemer, shot in the abdomen and
chest; died in ten minutes. George Kempfer
was shot in the right side and 1t is thought
badly wounded. John Benhigen, shot in
the left hand. George Lehr, is seriously
cut on the cheek below the left eye. His
wound was made by soldiers bayonet.
ASSAULT ON A GUN STORE.
During the evening small portion of
the crowd detached itself from the main
body and moved south on Main street, and.
stopping in front of Powell's gun store,
which is on that thoroughfare between
Fourth and Fifth, they made preparations
to force an entrance. Private watchman
John Connolly faced the men and said:
Don't smash in the windows. If you
will enter. do so decently." They acted on
the suggestion and started forward. There
was an unexpected report of a pistol-some
one said it came from the the inside of the
store-and the foremost man fell. A second
shot, and another went down. Hesi-
tating for moment, another advance was
made, more shots were heard, until five
men, all told were lying on the ground, two
of whom were dead, and three wounded.
The dead were John Dugan. One bullet
had entered the left eye and another the
center of the head at the side. Thomas A.
Green, dead, with a wound in the left
breast. The wounded were: Joseph Wise,
left. left side; side; &c Charles Eberhart,
knee; William McHugh, right right thigh,
Michael Mack, left arm; amputation neces-
sary. The crowd after this contepted itself
with igniting some barrels and rolling them
against PowelPs store, where they burned
without doing the building any damage.
An alarm was sent in for this reason from
box "a, but the engines were not used.
/ BERNER IN THE PENITENTIARY.
COLUMBUS, March 30.-Berner, the Gin
natl murderer, who escaped the officers at
49,, Il
Bailiff Joe Moses and several other officers
near Montgomery, O., and, after some
what exciting experience, was landed safe
in the Ohio Penitentiary about o. clock
last evening.
CINCINNATI, March 31.-All day yester-
day the streets in the vicinity of the Court
house were thronged with people viewing
the ruins of the building. All the streets
that lead up to the Courthouse and Jail,
the alleys that lead into them, and the
bridges, were all protected by barricades,
| behind which the militia stood all day,
their musket barrels pointing over the tops.
In front of these barricades the police kept
| an open space of hundred feet or more,
so that the five or six blocks i'm
| mediately around the Courthouse was
| entirely clear. The people that were
out in the afternoon were mostly q
| casionally did the police have any trouble,
| when some fellow who had been drinking
began to talk loudly and bitterly against the
militia and crying for blood. The police
| took these fellows in and carried them off
to cells in the Jail. Several of these raids
| were made into the mob, and once or twice
the mob made a rush after the police,
| which however was quickly checked by the
men behind the barricades, who leveled
after which they cleared out the
| street, and the cross streets to the side
of the barricade, in both directions; and
men, women and children, in their best
clothes as if for holiday on the street,
rushed pell NELL out of range. Some
| gradually came back again; others went
home, fresh sight-seers taking their places.
The scene at the Courthouse was appal-
ling, and viewed from West Court street a
of Saturday night was at once apparent.
| The front, with its thick wall
and massive pillars, stood intacts
but everything but the walls was in ruins.
| OF course the windows were all broken and
| the wood work burned out of place in the
| sills; the roof was gone, as We're the floors,
| and up through the windows was the beau
| tiful blue sky, in such striking contrast to
the terrible desnlation all about In front
of the building are the charred remnants OF
books and papers, soaked in water, but in
many places still smoking.
| Last nights battle was opened by the
| militia on Court street at half-past 8. They
had the full sweep of the market space.
|
ners and in front of the market-house, q
block distant from the barricade. There
was plenty of loud talking. All around
men were cursing their luck at not being
able to procure cannon. small portion
| of the mob made q movement toward the
barricade. A volley from the mititis
scattered the crowd pell-mell. One mar
was wounded.
After the first general firing of the militia
at $50 O'Clock, things quieted down con
siderably, and the opinion was current tha
the worst was over. However, at about
half-past ten the press at Court and Walnu
again became, as the military thought
threatening and two shots were heard tx
ring out upon the air. ! These, it il
said, were from pistol in tn,
ply. 1t was another of those death deal
dealing volleys, the crack of the rifles ant
the whiz of the balls, causing even TIN
safely sheltered few to shrink at thu
thought of the horrible slaughter that mus
ensue. So great was the confusion, how
ever, and so dense the crowd that nothing
definite could be learned at that time as tt
the result, some, strange as it may seem
asserting that no one out of the thousand
assembled was injured.
A summary of the list of killed ant
wounded, reported at Habig's morgue an,
the City Hospital up to o'clock Sunda,
morning, shows "a killed and 80 wounded
Up to O'Clock last night additiona
= many were taken to their homes, the tota
number of dead can not be less than A.
| and 125 wounded.
The rioters made heir last rally few mir
utes after midnight. They had at that tim
3 become much reduced in numbers, an
: while still threatening, were less az
' gressive. Having stolen about for
ty muskets from the Turner:
r armory in Turner Hall, they fired on tn
militia at Court and Walnut. Several vol
r leys were fred by the militia, which wer
: replied to with some spirit by the rioters
r At last volley from the Gattling gun lai
e low two or three of their number, and Ell
:, tirely cooled their ardor.
!, A few random shots were fired after tina
e hour, but from then till morning compare
l. tive quiet reigned.
n At military headquarters it is believe
,, that there will be no renewal of hostilite
It by the mob, and that the riot is substal
tally at end.
= At 4 a. M, as citizen was crossing Yves