Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1886-06-17
BL0ODSHED IN IRELAND.
Fierce Outbreaks Of 0rangemen and
Home. Rulers at Belfast
and Lurgan.
Hotels Sacked and Burned--RlOters and
Policemen Shot DOwn-Nine
People Killed.
Belfast qreland) dispatch.j

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A mob Of Orangemen made an attack
upon tavern kept by man named Duffy.
The police were promptly on the scene, and
after stubborn contest, during which they
used their carbines, drove the mob away in
disorder. The rioters reassembled with in
creased strength and again attacked Duffy's,
this time overpowering the police and driv-
ing them from the place. In the first assault
Chief of Police Carr was wounded. Ee
was carried away and now lies in critical
condition. When the Orangemen returned
to the fight they were accompanied by a
large number of factory girls, who goaded
or shamec the men on to battle and formed
most dangerous element.
When the officers abandoned Duffy's the
mob at once took complete poss ession of
the tavern and it was thoroughly sacked.
All the taps and spiggots were set running,
and everybody was invited to help himself
according to his taste. All the barrels of
liquor found in stock were carried into the
street, lifted up high and let fall until they
broke and liberated their contents. All the
furniture was carried out, piled in the CEN
fire to furnish the rioters light during their
debauch. Men, youths, and girls drank
until they fell helpless in the cutters, the
girls acting with greater fury during the
earlier stages of the orgy than the men.
The noise, the profanity, and the disorder
were terrible.
The mob ended its work by firing the
tavern itself, and it burned to the ground.
Then the stronger men, who had become
infuriated and overpowered by their pota-
tions, ran through the streets, wrecking
and pillaging wherever they went, and in
creasing their following the further they
proceeded. These rioters, after a while,
congregated around the police station and
stoned the police until they were tired.
They then marched down to another tavern.
The police fastened thither in advance and
attempted to protect the property, but they
were overpowered and driven away. The
mob, left in possession, treated the tavern
as they had treated Duffy's-turned on all
the taps, broke the full barrels in the street,
made bonfire of the furniture, and finally
set fire to the building.
The police returned, and this time got
the better for time of the mob, whose
ranks were depleted by the scores who had
fallen away in drunkenness, and extin-
guished the flames before they could gain
control of the structure. But the officers
were unable to drive the rioters from the
locality, and they remained and dominated
ii until morning. During the rowdyism of
the night MIR. Gladstone and Mr.. Parnell
corpse labeled "home rule" was cremated.
The rioting was renewed here this even
ing and the riot act was again read. The
mob increased in size and began throwing
stones at the police. The latter fired, kill
A.. n.
fire and brisk fusillade was kept up for
twenty minutes. The mob drove O force of
$50 policemen into the barracks and then
attacked the buildings, firing revolvcrs and
throwing stones at the doors and windows.
The police fired, killing five persons. Sew
eral Protestant clergymen tried to disperse
the mob, but their efforts were unavailing.
During the riots one hundred houses
were wrecked. After sacking the hotels
many 0rangmen reeled through the streets
shouting "To hi with the Popew Twenty
five policemen were hurt.
Two men named Hart and Mason were
arrested for the murder of Thomas Gala
CHER, who was shot dead during the rioting
Mt Lurgan. Gallagher was well-known
local simpleton. He waved an Orange
sash in the face of home-rule mob during
an incessant fire between that mob and
its Orange enemies. During the riot
the situation at one time became SO des-
perate that Mr.. Mathers, local Orange
leader, publicly declared that unless the
authorities did their duty he and thou
sand armed Orangemen would take charge
of the town. Mathers was on the point of
carrying out his threat when the military
appeared.
An internal machine, consisting of jar
filled with n black substance and some
clock-work, was thrown last night against
the door of Protestant house in Lurgan
and exploded in the doorway. Arthur and
Andrew Donnelly, leading Catholic mer-
chants, have been arrested at Lurgan ON
the charge of firing from their windows.
mob wanted to lynch the prisoners and
stoned the police. II was finally dispersed
at the point of the bayonet.