Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-16
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. FIERCE WAR AT BELFAST. Furious Fighting In The
 Streets. A PITCHED BATTLE BY NIGHT. Both Sides Armed With
 Rifles. BLAINE ON THE OFFENSIVE. A Steamer To Run The
 Rapids.
|LAINE ON THE OFFENSIVE.
A Steamer To Run The
 Rapids.

A FIERCE RATTLE AT BELFAST. | Oraneemen And Catholics Wage | Deadly War In The Streets-A Ter l rife Battle With Eziaes In Which A Number Are Killed Ana Wounded. BELFAST, Ang 15.-The sectarian strife l which has ebbed and flowed here for many weeks recurred last night and was conduct ed in the most deplorably cold blooded fashion. From midnight Saturday until 4 o'clock this morning fierce rifle fight pre- vailed on the Shankhil1 and Old Falls road. One man was killed and 8 large number wounded. Expert marksmen conducted the
 rifle fighting from roofs, chimney st acks and street corners and immense crowds of their
 partisans who were carefully stationed out of
 range of the firing supplied the rifemen with
 ammunition, removed the wounded and
 held themselves in readiness to assist their
 respective sides in whatever manner might
 be necessary. The Orangemen and Catho-
 lies contending were equally divided in
 numbers and the moon, which shone bright
 ly throughout, assisted the aim of the
 marksmen. The Orangemen admit that one
 of their number was killed
 and two were mortally wounded
 while minor casualties in their ranks were
 qnite numerous. They claim, however, that
 they killed and wounded large number of
 Catholics, but the latter deny that any of
 their number were killed. The houses in the
 vicinity of the battle ground are riddled with
 bullets The military made repeated at
 tempts to stop the firing, but whenever they
 appeared the combatants shifted their posi-
 tion and it was o'clock and after the riot act had been read twice that the sol6ieIs'by 8 succession of charges were enabled to clear the streets, and this they did only temporari ly. An old man and woman, inmates of a house on Conway street from which consider able firing was done, were arrested. They state that three men forced an entrance into the house, terrified them into submission and remained in the house all night, firing from the windows and from the roof. The prisoners were arrested and escorted to the jail by strong force of police and soldiers and followed by mob 1 who repeatedly attempted their rescue. The i town has been in turmoil all day and the l police were several times fired upon by the l mob. A tavern situated in the Protestant | district kept by 8 Catholic was footed and | the inmates driven into the streets. The or l der given to the police some time ago to use 1 buckshot instead of bullets has been rescind- l ed. The town is seething, the populace pre- | serving sullen and nenacing attitude which | IS 1nterpreCeo Oy Ino pollce to pouo 1uEGneE bloodshed.
 LONDON, Aug. 15.-While an Orange pro- cession was passing through the streets of Widnes, Lancashire, last night the process sionists were jeered by the spectators who | lined the street. The Orangemen attacked the crowd and a terrific fight was waged for twenty minutes. One man was fatally stabbed, two policemen were seriously | wounded and many others more or less seri ously hurt.
 BELFAST, Aug 16,-At ? o'clock this the town is quiet. Desultory firing | was maintained throughout the day until | midnight, when the priests by almost sup human efforts induced the Catholics to re- l tire. At this hour all of the wounded in the 1 hospitals are progressing favorably except | one, little girl, who was shot in the chest | and is dying.
 Minnie Palmers Narrow Escape.
 BELFAST, Aug. 15.-Miss Minnie Palmer and her company were passengers on the ex- press train which arrived here during the | height of the rioting last night. Several shots and stones struck the windows of the train smashing the glass and terrifying the |