Daily Republican. [volume] ([Wilmington, Del.]) 1874-1890, 1886-06-12
THE BELFAST RIOTS.
A PRoLoNGED ED REIGN Or TERROR
-FfGH11NG THE POLICn.
pierce BsttIs1 In tho strcets--The APP
/. pe.i Of the Ciergymen Alogether
Useless--Seyerai More Killed.

peai Of the Ciergymen AMoeother
Useless--seysrai More Kiiled.
BELFAsT, June IL Tho rioting last
oight was less disastrous than on We'd
|nesday. AftsE their days labor htd
|anAef, thousaude cf workingmep nath-
Tered In the vicinity of the BoEers Hill
police and cried out: "We will have
4 Ten lfyes for every one OF the wee MUIR
Tered eirls." The county police were
ttheD withdrawn, and some well-known
}local constables were sent TO reason
| with the, mob. Tbs latter demanded
4 the withdrawal nj Of hll the police. Arch-
deacon Lever and several Presbyterisn
tclerayf1en afterward fmplored the mob
t5o disperse, Their addresses proved a.
Itoeether useless, and even while the
lrosers wer1 speaking the rioters kept
tup o desultory stone throwing ct the
tpolioe. u One stone stEuck 0 divine
Isouarely in the face, and hurt him Sc
Iverely. Captain LestYange, the Resi-
Ident Magistrate who was present to
icoupsel order, was struck BY o briekbat
Ion the head. When the preachers ceased
1.-THE mob surged up to the gate of the
tbarracks and defied the police to come
iand take o square fight.
Things went on IN this way until
tabout ten O'Clock when two troops OF
Iaraeoons galloped, up. They were fol-
Iswed By three hundred infantry.
These men had been under arms eleven
Ihours. The mob was for Q moment
lpewerless with surprise and dispersed.
The runaways soon, however, became
Iashamed Of themselves, and returned
Ito, the soene, warmly cheering the SOL
ldiere, The latter had taken complete
lposses sion Of the streets asound the bar
Iraoks and oordoned them effectively.
The mob, reslizing the impregnability
of ths police position, now departed In
sections, cursing the Pope, denouncing
I Home Rule ,and singing 1.-THE Orange
Lilly" and "Rnle Britannia"
81 While all this was going on at the
= Bowers Hill barracks mob had taken
possession Of York street. The frst
, Iconcentrnted In ffent of q wine store,
!. kept by a company named Mckenna.
% The building was soon seized and
wrecked, and all Of McKenna's stock Of
wines was emptied in the street. The
y Imob then proceeded to McGioskey's
ltassrn. The,police had taken warning
m and got there first. A. set fight took
q place It was waged with desperation
0. Ion both sides. The s0lice fred twenty
Isir rounds Of buckshot Mt the rioters,
10 but the mob, finally drove them away
Q land smashed McOlpskey's tavern to
\: pieces, distributlng the inns liquors to
all who would drink or carry Liquor
a. laRay.
n. Several Of the rioters were wounded
Q: In this fight and were. left helpleea in
% the street by their comrades, who,
!, traaddened with liquor and excitement,
-, rushed to- the work of wreck and pill
- laRe. Aaumber Of tavsrns were de-
Oh stroyed, and ali their stocks Of wine,
whisky and beer thrown out 70 the
ID. kcrowd In the strests, who drank 1t IA
m. M kvenously or carrssd 1t away in Jugs and
y ~ ! buckets. In the latter work scores OF
women and children were engaged all
N the tiIae the ri9ting lasted. Towards
n. midnight the mob, after having
hiL wrecked and looted all the taverns II
ans the vicinity, returned TO McCloskey !
~. and set 1t on hse. The glare attracted
IN ~ the palice, who reformed and marchet
] 8 down there to put out the fire and saw
sn's the town from oon 6agration.
They had to fight for every foet OF tn
Z. way they made. at times, when tn
pie. flames fiared high, the sight OF the uni
9ge' formed officers scattered among tn
Imob. filling the streets from house :
roI Iheuse, each officer Ashting ON his ow
ing account and all in the same direction
J. every man shouting or oursing, tn
leo- women and children at the window
lshflekiDR anu EeebAcuintnkf HSs soi
~ lrible. Finally the police got toGethe
anGa a. land carried on the battle with buck
ad. tshot. This evidently scattered th
in Inob, and the fire at MeGloskey's q ws
snn. lput out bsfore it coula extend. Mt
en- en- q Closkey and his family and numbe
AH1 .of his Catholic neiehbors were rescue
from the fury of the mob by an Orana
man, who took them to his house an
There gave them q safe refuge
LoNDoN, June 1.-THE governmel
-, has placed the district terrorized by u
ad mobs In the province OF Ulster una
= q martial law.