Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-08-11
rnE BELFAST RIOTS.
The PoIsce Regarded ne Dissurbsss u
stead OF Prcssrvers Of shs psscs.
[By Anglo American cable 20 the Dispatch.i

stead OF Prcssrvers Of she psscs.
lBy Apglo-America cable 70 the Dsspstcn.i
BELFAST, Angus, l0.-Five thou.
sand troops and $500 constsbles occu-
DIV the disturbed districts. The presence
Of the police tends TO increase instead
Of suppress the disorders. The Protes-
tants declare that the Catholics were
the sggressors by vrecking Protestant
houses, while the Catholics are equally
certain that the Protestsnts we're the
sggressors. OF one thing there Is
DO doubt--neyer did two mobs
Of different religions display . more
bloodthirsty desire to kill or main each
other. Durizg the fighting on Sunday
and Monday, whenever the powder ran
short, the yirsgoes on both sides, with
tlatirons and other implements, ground
large grains Of blasting-povder into q
size suitable for small arms, while the
boys OF tender age melted lead into
bullets and slugs. While the rioters
were firing the youths and women
stood behind them busily loading spare
guns in order 10 prevent . waste OF
time. TIE fusilade lasted until 2
o'clock yesterday morning, when the
ammunition gave out and a tact. truce
ensued. Both sides are removing the
dead and wounded to their homes,
and are doing their utmost to
bide their losses. On Monday the
Protestants received welcome do
nation of twenty-five rifles and much
ammunition from Bsllymaccarett SYM
patbizsrs, while the Ballynshinch
Nstionalists sent the Catholics guns
of the type called "Sweethearts." A
righteousness Of weapons will constitute
the gravest danger in the future. There
is general demand for house-to-house
search for arms.
A visitor who has been studying the
cause Of the riots writes at is use
less mincing matters. The police have
fred and slain the people from panic, II
not from yindiciiyeness. The peo-
pie assert that the latter was
the cause. The people regard the
police. as murderers, not protectors
that the issue must be faced. Hun
dreds Of people have friends dead or
dying. Ii is worse than needless to
say that they want only to attack tho
police. The latter now represent the
peoples deadly and desth-dealing enc
mics. The friends and neighbors Of
,ln E,tIaN o,I ,,rrpI.l all rayar1 thu
police as foes-their bare presence Is \
terror to be repulsed and excludes the
ides OF wantonuess. This is now the
great, supreme difficulty. have seen
men in respectable houses throwing
stones at batch Of twenty policemen.
escorted BY one hundred horse-sol-
diers."
Numerous complaints have been made
of the behavior Of the police. One
citizen says that while going home
through quiet street he was stopped
by six constables, who rudely searched
him, ordered him TO give an account Of
himself, and then imperatively com
manded him to go home st once.
Another writes that three constables who
drifted into respectable tobacconist's
shop, upon seeing pouch engraved
with the likeness Of Chamberlain, flung
it down, cursing Chamberlain for "go-
ing against them" One Of them, ad-
dressing the lady behind the counter,
said "You're afraid Of the Tipperary
bows. | put six bullets into an Orange
man last night. and I'll give them dou-
bic tonight. II I had my own way ]
would not lesye one"
At about 5 o'clock this afternoon
two men were shot by disorderly ps--
SODs in different parts Of the city. One
Of the men was shot in the Catholic
oemetery while attending the funeral OF
victim Of the recent riots. The
other was fred upon in the Grosvenor
road. Both Of the injured men will
probably die n their wounds.