Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1884-04-04

OF probably quarter of n million. and was
made TO Withstand fire as far as possible. 10
lose 10 means the irreparable loss OF valu.
able records, some OF them OF great histor-
ical interest and value, and of the second
best lnw library In the United States. The
carriage factory near by is also reported on
fire, and In the present chaotic condition of
affairs, there Is nothing TO prevent untold
loss from fire except lack of material to
give 10 start. When the mob had robbed
| Powell's gun store IL was fred Tho patrol
! was responded TO the alarm, and the mob
fired ON 1t, killing one man, and woundlng
4 others. This fire was, however, oxtin.
guished.
The mob has lost all control, and seems
bound on destruction pure and simple The
burning court house gives no aid in the ori.
ginal purpose Of lynchlng the murderers,
and its destruction only adds loss to the
disgrace. Firing upon the mob has been
merciless, whether by Gattiing gun or by
the soldiers cannot now be told, as nothing
has been heard from the inside of the Jail
for the past hour.
A WIN ppoer AVIATION.
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CINcINNATI. March 3l.-At daylight
Yesterday morning the Associated Press re-
porter walked through the quarter of the
city where the stormy scenes of tho night
had been enacted. The dawnlnr was as
peaceful and brilliant as was ever ceen.
/ Against the exouisitely tinted sky
in the east the broken walls of the burn
ing Court House were distinctly defined,
with its crumbled window openinps. look.
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the Treasurer's Office. I'm the northern part
of the building, the ruddy glow of the fire
was still visible, while from other portions
thin, white colored smoke and steam was
rising. MS the water thrown by the engines
fell into the burning contents. 1852
Saturday night when the sun went down
the occupants of the Treasurer's Office were
sitting at the omen glass windows. smoking
cigars and reading accounts of the previous
nights attempts on the iai There was no
Thought that in six hou,si those windows
j would be broken in and the accumulated
wealth. the contents of that great building
would be in ruins. But this building great
as was its loss, was merely property. The
other losses i'm that locality we're of human
| life. Only pools of blood here and there
in the trainped dust. or on the brick side
walks, were to be seen. Only an hour be-
fore, on Sycamore street, below Court, Law
FOUR OR FIVE DEAD BODIES
of drunken or yenturesome men. who. in
| spite of the policemen's warning mad gone
beyond the limit permitted by the militia.
When they fell under the fire of the
militia no one dared 70 to take them away
until the mob had dispersed. and the
streets were clear. Only two hours before
Mt three o'clock n. m.. when small
| crowd gathered at the drug store. Mt
Court and Walnut streets. one square
west of the court house. to see the patrol
wagon take away dead man, the militia.
mistaking this for a renewal of the mob.
fired volley, killing one man and wound
ing n nephew of the proprietor of the store.
One bali struck the iron facing of the door
and rebounding, crashed through the glass
door near the head of the proprietor, who
was using the telephone at that time. Pass
ing to the north side of Court Street, on
| W.
Here, apparently, the wounded had taken
shelter behind a protecting building: or
perhaps here the fatally wounded had
crawled to die. Pool after pool of blood
dyed the ground all along the curbstone. An
along the streets signs of blood were visible.
and in a hallway three square distant on
Main Street, the floor was smeared with
blood where some unfortunate had crawled
to dress his wounds or die.
THE nr1pNrya OF THE coIrRr uo,rsr
was wholly aimless and malicious eycent as
one might find an excuse in the feeling that
the crowd was anpered Mt the nlace where n
failure TO do Justice had been so marked II
did NOT aid nj ali in getting ot the nrisnners
nor in doing harm to fhe militia II y,s
nurelv wanfon, nor was there anv eycnse
for the failure To project this nronertv The
crowd was nermitted IN 20 IN the verv win.
dows and breal, them in without resistance
and when onnnrtunitv offered soma devilish
Communist. who ploried in nnre destruc-
tion. suggested to cast some light ON the
subject. This was the trivial manner in
which he talked .STbis viii he the
paris of America sure enough y said
another. With this leadership and with
these motives chairs. carnets, desks were
broken aud piled in heaps in the Treasurer's
Office and the match applied. AS this was
done some silly-headed or drunken hoodlums
in the crowd cheered and yelled, Burn the
id militia out" Just here occurred one
of the most melancholy events of the
night the killing of Captain John
Desmond He had been appraised of the
purpose to burn the court house, and was
sent with a squad of militia to try and put