The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-08-17
MORE RIOTS AT BELFAST.
CATHOLICS AND PROTESTANTS PEP
PER AWAY AT EACH OTHER.

sharpshooters on Both sides-SuppIyine
Ammunition and Carrying of the
Wounded Police Refrain from
Firing-A Brave Priests Efforts at
& Peaee-Foreign Items.
BELFAST, Aug i7-The city is again
completely upset The hour OF midnight
had hardly passed Sunday night when firing
was heard in the vicinity of North Howard
street, which runs between the Shank Hill
and the Falls road At first there were but
few shots and the authorities did not give
serious attention to the matter. But the
reports came quicker and quicker, and it
was soon apparent that the mobs were again
at each other. The night was very dark
and 1t was almost impossible to locate the
firing, but it WAS soon discovered that the
Catholic mob was at the corner of the Falls
road and Conway street, and the Protestant
mob at the upper end of Conway street,
about a quarter of mile apart. The weap-
ons used were rifles and revoIvers, but the
range was too long for the latter, and no
positive harm could have been Untitled by
them. There was the greatest confusion
among the police and the military forces
The mob shifted their ground and small
parties on either side lodged from corner to
corner and from house to house. No con-
siderable number of rioters could he found
The police made two charges and the riot
act was read, twice by the resident magis-
trate without any result and the firing
grew more constant At first there had
been but few apparently random shots,
but by O'Clock it sounded like the miscel-
laneouS firing Of at least score of men.
The people were awakened all over the city
and thousands swarmed out onto the
streets. 1t was nearly Il O'Clock DO
fore the police and military succeeded
in quelling the combat Strange to
say, there was not fatality on
the Catholic side One man was killed and
two badly wounded on the Protestant side
There was no shooting whatever by the 20.
lice. The only arrests were those ~ three
Catholics, a man and his two daughters. A
striking figure in the Cathchc mob was
that OF q Catholic priest who went about
from group to group trying TO deter the
men from shooting into The houses on the
other side. AT O'Clock in the morning the
city was quiet The priests by almost SUI
perhuman eXertions induced the Catholics
TO retire at midnight All the wounded
were doing well except one little girl, who
had been shot in the chest, and was said to
be dying.
DUBLIN, Aug. 1 Advises from Belfast
Monday morning say that peace has again
been restored, but that fresh outbreaks arc
expected. The rioting Sunday was of a
most cold blooded charact Expert marks
men conducted the ritie-fighting from ROOT
tops, chimney stacks, and street corners,
and immense crowds of their partisans
who were carefully stationed cut of range
of the firing, supplied The riilemen witt
ammunition, removed the wounded, ami
held themselves in readiness TO assist theii
respective sides in whatever man uer might
lie necessary. The Orangemen and Catho
lies contending were about equally divided
in numbers. The number of victims car
not lie ascertained as the dead and wounded
were carried oil by their friends
LONDON, Aug, III Tho Times in an edi
torIal Monday morning, censures the Bel
fast Protestants for not submitting to the
authorities