Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-03-31
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RIOT And BLOODSHRD.
The Vengeance of the Gin
cinnati Mob.
A FEARFUL TALE OF SLAUGHTER.
The Rioters Rushing to
Their Death.
WORK OF TORCH ANO BULLET.
Thousands of Soldiers
in the City.
The COURT HOUSE IN RUINS.
A Picture of the GOb's Ter
rible Rage.
The COURT HOUSE IN RUINS
A Picture of the MOb's Ter
rible Rage.
THE CINCINNATI RIOT.

A Terrible Popular Uprfsing-The
Streets Clicked With HOwling Mob
Blood Flowing Like Water-Desperate
Rioters Shot Down In Their Tracks
Battling Like Demons With the
Police and Mtl1tary-A S1ckening Tale
or Bioodshed and Death.
CINCINNATI, March 30.-Friday night,
March %, will mark the most memorable
epoch in the history of Cincinnati, for the
riot that was ushered in on that evening, and
which is weaving trail of blood and de-
struction, has collapsed any event which has
occurred here since the foundation of the
city An angry, maddened, bowling mob
has since, almost uninterruptedly day and
night, filled the streets, and the magnificent
court house lies in ruins, fred by the torch
of the rioters. Nothing so bloody has ever
happened here, and, indeed no instance of
such violent popular protest against laxity
of administrative justice is on record in this
country. The report of the mob uprising
reads like weird romance from the blood
thirsty annals of the French commune and
has brought home to those who have 10 do
with the execution of justice the sacred rights
of the people that are above all chicanery
and corruption. The killed and wounded
will probably reach over seventy-fv though
no correct estimate can yet be given.
THE FIRST ATTACK ON THE JAIL.
The county Jail and the court house where
the rioting occurred occupy square bounded
on the west by Main street, on the east by
Sycamore street and on the north and south
by narrow streets called North and South
courts The court house fronts west on Main
street and reaches from North court to South
81. = -. H. - &c.,, h frrrR
wings extending north and south. 1t faces
east on Sycamore street, and the yard is en-
closed with high stone wall surmounted by
an iron fence The eastern front has doors
leading into the residence of the jailer, which
opens on sidewalk. The entrance proper
to the jail is reached by winding stone stair
way leading down to an area twelve feet be-
low the sidewalk. Here was the Begin
ming of the attack Friday night. As soon
as the monster mass meeting that was held
to protest against the peculiar methods that
have made the administration of criminal
Justice here farce, the crowd surged along
and when they had reached the corner of
Twelfth and Elm streets somebody shouted
G.File leftI" and the mob, increasing in mem
bers at every step, hurried towards the Jail.
The Jail doors were Immediately battered,
the leader of the mob being colored man
by the name of Haines. At five minutes to
ten the fire bells struck the eminous SO, 2,
1. the riot alarm, and followed this imme-
diately with a regular alarm as for fire, giving
the number of the box located at the court
house This alarm caused an enormous
crowd to flock to the county jail, and,
with rioters and spectators, there must
have been congregsted st one time
over ten thousand people about the
court house and Jail. just about midnight
the mob on Sycamore street succeeded In
battering open the entrance second tins
and forced their way into the Jail Office. At
twelveEo' clock the people were In full pos
session of the lower reception room of the
jail Meanwhile the fight continued and the
mob succeeded in effecting an entrance to the
very cells of the murderers confined there.
The militia arrived and, with the policemen,
made up strong guard OF about three nun
dred Attempts were made to burn the jail by
throwing barrel of coal oil into the kitchen,
but the flames were extinguished. The cell
of the colored murderer, Ben johnson, was
attacked, but the mob did not succeed in tax
ing him The iaiI and its adjoining yard
were finally cleared, but the mob
about the Jail remained until broad day
light. Then was revealed scene of
desolation. The whole of the Sycamore
street side showed desolating traces of the
mob's fury. The window panes we're all
broken, the frames were in splinters or gone
altogether, and the stout iron bars bent, as If
by sudden CONFUSION. The outer doors OF
the jail office, which are composed of heavy
iron, are all battered up, the ornaments torn
off, and indicate that the blows given them
must have been terrific. Axes, sledge ham,
mefs and heavy beams were brought to bear
| against them. In the Office signs of the VIC
leuce of the mob are seen
everywhere. The floor is entirely covered
with broken glass, heavy powders, brlckoats,
| cartridge shells and plasteling ground to
dust under the tread of many fast The tai
ephone wires were torn away and vast
accumulation of debris in which huge beams
were prominent lay scattered about The
dead and wounded had been carrie d off to
| the hosnitaI and their homes