Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-05-08
A RIOT At CORK, IRELAND.

"A hiOI Al SOhN,
Ii Visit of the Prince and Princess OF
Wales the Occasion - Many Persons
Wounded.
LONDON, April 1e.-The Prince and
Princess OF Wales arrived at Cork yesterday.
Everything within the power of the Loyalists
was done to make the reception of the royal
visitors a success. When they emerged from
the railway station they were greeted with
cheers. and during their progress in the pa
rade wOrkmen and boys ran alongside their
carriage, and, by cheers, tried to drown the
misses of the Nationalist, who made CON
tinual hostile demonstrations. One Ma
tionalist threw a vegetable at the royal car
riage and struck one of the footmen. Stones
were then thrown, and the police fred at
the rOughS, but no injuries are reported.
The Prince betrayed some feeling in re-
plying to the address presented by the mag
istrates of Cork, and said he hoped.that ali
persons OF influence in Ireland would unite
to promote the welfare of the Irish people.
Their higfllesseS then departed for Queens
town.
Early in the evening the Government Off
Gals declared that the attempts of
the Nationalist to organize an OPP
position had resulted in a failure,
and that the extent of the Loyalists' demon
stratiOn was surprising. These declarations
were hardly uttered before the telegraph
brought repeats Of rioting in various parts
of the city, and the reports became more
alarming every hour. During the afternoon
a detective arrested a rowdy who was
throwing stones at the Loyalists' procession
A mob speedily formed and attempted to
rescue the prisoner. The detective fired his
rnyaIVar h,1f without hitfior oov nuo o,1
succeeded i'll taking his prisoner to a police
court, where he was promptly released on
bail furnished by the Mayor of Cork. Early
in the evening the Nationalist held a mass
meeting, where inf1ammatory speeches were
made, and the latest London newspapers
containing accounts of the royal progress
were burned in a bonfire. After the mass
meeting the Nationalist scattered through
the city i'll parties numbering from so to 500
men. Doors and windows were smashed,
flags and decorations were torn down and
heaped upon blazing bonfires, and many
gun stores were broken into for the purpose
Of arming the mob. Policemen when en-
countered singly or in small squads were at
tackled and beaten numerically with their
own trunclleons. In many cases the police
rallied and charged desperately upon the
mob, but they were invariably surround
w olIu AGpu1oCO. Liz pOlICo IIltu 1cSOIICu
to a free Use of their revolvers and bay
onets. 1t was a hand-tohand fight Of the
most desperate sort, the police standing
back to back and receiving and inflicting
terrible injuries. At midnight the streets
were practically in possession Of
the mob. The policemen who remained
mninjured could not attempt to do more
than remain in their position and fight
Oh the defensive. In addition to attacks
from crowds i'll the Streets the police were
exposed to murderous volleys of stones from
windows, house-tops and other points of
vantage. The belief at midnight was that
the streets could not be cleared without the
use of artillery.
LONDON, April 16.--A dispatch from
Cork at four o'clock this morning says the
rioting has been suppressed. Many arrests
nave been made, and the hospitals are full
of wounded policemen and rioters.