New-York tribune., 1886-08-11
BLOODTHIRSTY RIOTERS.
RUTHLESS WORK OF THE BELFAST MOBs.

RUTHLESS WORK Of llfE DELE hoi 'iOD''
THE POLICE REGARDED AS MURDERERs AND THEIR
PRESENCE INCREASING THE DISORDERS.
Br,r,sr. Aug. 1O.-Fivc thousand troops and 900
constablcs occupy the disturbed districts. Inc
presence of the police tends to increase instead OF
suppress the disorders, Protestants declare that
Catholics were the aggressors by wreckng Protestant
houses, while Catholics arc equally certain that
Protestants were the aggressors Of one thing there
is no doubt d.d two mobs of different religions
d,spav more bio pdthirsty desire kill main each
other. In the iahting on Sunday and Monday when
ever powder ran short virag' es both sides, with
natrons and other Implements ground large grams
of blasting powder into size suitable for small arms
whio bows OF tender age melted lead into bullets ana
slucs. While the rioters firing youths and women
stood behind them busy loading spare guns in order
TO prcvcnt n waste of time. The fusade lasted until
@ o'clock Yesterday morning, when ammunition gave
out and tact truce ensued both sides removing the
dead and wounded to their homes. Both sides are
doing their utmost hide their losses On Monday the
Protestants received n welcome donation OF twenty
five rifles and much ammunition from Bailymaccafe't
synpathizers while Ballynahinch Naiionalists sent
the Catholics a supply of ammunition aud many
revolvers of the type called "sweethcarts.' Inc
plentincss Of weapons will constitute the gravcst
danger in the future. There is general demand ior
n house-to house search for arms.
A visitor who has been studying the cause of the
riots writes: at is useless mincins matters. The
police have fired and slain people from panic II not
from vndictvcncss. Tie people assert that the
latter was the The people regard the police as
murdcrers not protectors. That issue must DC iaceu
Hundred. of the people have friends dead or dying
II is worse tAan useless TO say they wantonly attack
the police. The latter now represent the peoples
Tho friends and
ne. hbors of he killed and wounded al regard the
policc as foes Their bare presence Is terror to be
rcpulsod and excludes the idea of wantonncss. This
is now the great supreme difficulty. have seen men
in respectable houses throwing stones at batch oi
twenty policemen escorted by 100 horse soldiers
Numerous complaints hay been made OF the behav-
Tor of the police. One man says that while going home
throuch ouiet street Lc was stopped by six constI
brs who rdclv searched him. ordered him Ia give an
account of himself and then mTcratycly commanded
him TO 90 home at once Another writes that three
oonstables who dIiftcd into respectable tobacco
mist shop upon seeing pouch engraved with like
ncss Of Chamberlain flung II down. cursing Chamber
in for 81 going AGAINST them. One of them. adj
Jrcssinr tc woman bel ind the counter said You're
afraid OF the lippcrary boys put SIX bullets mo an
Orangcman last night. aud III give them double To-
night. Il | had my own way wouldn't leave one
desperate riot took lace this morning IN Sprin9-
field in which few persons were W"uhI'd' Inns AZ
tcrnoon two men were shot by di-Qrdcily persons III
different part of the city. one OF the men was shot
while in Caholic cemetery attending tho iuheIa OF
a victim of the recent riots. The other was hied upon
I'm (ro-yenor Road Both of the injured men Will dic
Inspector Bull of the Royal Irish onstabnlary, =
doing IYquc.ts are beng held on the odc- oi those
KILLED and the funerals of some of tie victims TOOK
place to-day Maurice Healy, Parnee Member OF
Parliament for Cork City. has bcen instructed on ne-
half Of the widow of Constable Gardiner. who was
killed during the Orange riota here which began on
June f. TO claim from the city an indemnify oi lJOOO
Tor his death.
DrBII>. Aug. 1O-At meeting of the National
League to-day Mr. Harrington announced the receipt
of f.ss for League purposes aud tl3J''' incinding
fl2 Bis from America. for the farlamcntlry fuhn'
Mr Clancy made speech in which hc dorIAIcd That
Harrington. Chamberlain aud Salisbury. nmd, above
all a person called Churchill were answeraolr i"r
the blood-hrd and plumber at Belfast. This remark
loudly cheercd. 49,,
me Ga,ea> announces that Belfast aud Londonderry
hay. been again proclaimed Thoro hal been no moro
riOting In Belfast up to midnight tonigbt
Mr. Bigglr, speech before tahOic committee
this evening" said that the Justices aui tao Protestant
clergy Belfast encouraged the rioter. aud acted un
Justly The Mayor O Belfast, ho said ought TO bo put
the dock criminal
IoSDoS Aug. lO.-Thc Parnel.ite me nbcrs OF Parlia
ment led By Mr. sexton and tho Belfast members. Will
Introduce subject OF the Belfast riots In the House
at the earliest practicable moment lively debate IA
e1peccI The Cabinet Will meet on Friday. sr Michael
Beach will attend the meeting Dut In the mean
time will remain In Dublin.