The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-08-19


= fierce encounter took place botwecn the sol.
diem and mob 10 which q number were wounded
A colder nj close quarters fired ut BOY shAt-
tering his hand The soldier was arrested. Re-
Inducements of troops to the number Of Twelve
hundred have arrived in Belfast TOD
NooN.-The attempts to stop the rioling nave
been unsuccessful and the violence OF the moo
is increasing. Thirty rioters have been wound-
ed. The police keep up merciiess hre upon the
mob The city, owing to the wreck ana RUN
Of houses, presents deplorable aspect Its ap-
pearance is similar to that Of Paris ater the CON-
mune Il is & AIRED that numerous deaths result
ing from the riot have taken place which will not
be heard Of The hospitals are taxed to the ut
most to accommodate the great number Of
wounded persons in need of attendance.
A painful feature OF the riots Is the number OF
children wounded Yesterday a boy was shot
while returning from Sunday-school. To-day a
little girl was shot on the streets, and, 1t IS
thought, fatally wounded. She was carried away,
apparently lfeless Train loads of tramps are
constantly arriving.
An incident OF the disorder is as follows: Mrs
McIlw anie Saturday harangued a small crowd
of neighbors in regard to the riots, and roundy
abused the police for firing upon the people:
She afterwards expressed fear that she would
lose her life account of her speech. She there
fore, in order to avoid recognition, put on
black dress on Sunday instead OF a white one
which she wore Saturday. This precauti0n,
however failed to save her Yesterday, during
the progress of the riot, she ran to her door to
gather in some straying children. bullet
struck her in the head and she fell lfeless in the
| doorway.
| During the day two opposing mobs in the out
| lying districts managed 10 elude the police and
| retired to a sheltered field where for an hour
| there was desperate melee Both parties claim
| ed the victory. 1t is believed that two persons
| were killed and that their bodies were smuggled
| to their homes One witness declares that six
/ ell ooc, lead II ovid
that each party intended to annihilate the other.
| The mobs were dispersed by the military and po-
| lice 1t is reported that during the commOtiOn
on Shank Hill the police were preparing to fire
| when they were confronted by the military and
peremptorily ordered to desst. The police sui
| lenly lowered their rifles and the military COM
mander succeeded in urging the rioters, most of
| whom, it is believed, were Protestanis to return
/ TO their homes. A certain man was chased four
hours by the mob thrstng for his blood, but he
| eluded his pursuers after desperate effort when
nearly succumbing to exhaustion. The police
rescued him by charging his pursuers at the
! point of the bayonet boy was chased by
| by the mob on emerging from the back entrance
OF factory and was badly beaten.
Sir Michael Hicks Beach, after a conference
| with Prince Edward, commander n-chef OF the
Irish forces. and Sir Robert Hamilton has decid-
ed TO give the military officers at Belfast magis-
terial powers. Peaceable artisans condemn the
police and coroners' verdicts have been rendered
| cOndemning them.
At serious melee on Park street late TO- night
many houses were broken open. The rioters
fought each other, picking their men and shoot
ing them down coolly. There are now 500 extra
military and police in the city. Another riot has
| been begun The battles have assumed the char
acter of religious fighting.
The girl who was wounded at noon to-day is
| dying The town is apparently quiet tonight.
but mischief shoulders and il is thought that the
| toto heir rha IN
tiles. The military occupy the streets. Further
| reinforcements have been requested. The Or
angemen are bitterly incensed against the county
police, whom they alege to be in sympathy with
the Catholics Forty rioters have been sentenced
TO terms of imprisonment, ranging from one
| month to six months
| BELFAST, August 10-Five thousand troops
| and two thousand five hundred constables &C.
cupy the disturbed districts. The presence of
the police tends to increase instead Of suppress
the disorders. The Protestants declare that the
Catholics were the aggressOrs by wrecking Pro-
testant houses, while the Catholics are equally
certain that the Protestants were the aggressors.
OF one thing there is no doubt, never did two
mobs of different religions display more blood
Thirsty desire 10 kill nainA each other. Dur
ing the fighting on Sunday and Monday, when
ever powder ran short, viragoes on both sides,
with flat irons and other implements, ground
large grains OF blasting powder into size suit
able for small arms while bows of tender age
melted lead into bullets and slugs. While the
hind d them bnsy loading spare guns in order 10
prevent waste of time. The fusiladc lasted until
8 o'clock yesterday morning when ammu-
milton gave out and q tacit truce ensned both
sides remJving the dead and wounded TO their
homes Both sides are doing their utmost to
hide their losses. On Monday The PrOlestants
received a welcome donation of twenty-five
rifles and much ammunition from Ballynlacca-
| rett sympathiZers. while Ballynschinch Nation
alis's sent the Catholics guns of the type called
sweethearts.' Plentness OF weapons will
constitute the gravcst danger in the future.
visitor who has been studying the cause of
,he riots whites: 1t Is useless minciny mat
tiers. The police have fired and slain people
from panic il not from vindictiveness The
| people assert that The latter was the cause. The
people regard the police as murderers not pro-
tectors. That issue must be faced. Hundreds
of people have friends dead or dying. 1t is
worse than useless to say they want only to at
tack the police. The latter now represent the
peoples deadly death dealing enemies Friends
| and neighbors of the killed and wounded all re-
gard the police as foes. Their bare presence is
a terror TO be repulsed, and excludes the idea of
wantonness This is now the great supreme
| difficulty. l have seen men in respectable
| houses throwing stones al batch OF twenty pO-
lice escorted by one hundred horse soldiers"
RIoT1SG RESUMED
LONDON, August 15-Rioting has been re-
| sumed in Belfast. From midnight last night I'm
Ill o'clock this morning a rife fight was in pro-
| gress on Shank Hill road and Old Fall road
One person was killed and many were wounded
The town is seething. A dispatch from Belfast
| says: sectarian strife has occurred in u de-
| plorable cold blooded fashion. Expert marks
| men this morning conducted a rifle fight from
| roof tops, chimney stacks and street corners
THOUSANDS OF hackers
| Immense crowds OF partsans who carefully
| kept out of range were prepared to assist by sup
| plying ammunition and removing the wounded
| The sides were equally divided. The moon
| shone brightly throughout the contest The Or
| ange men admit that one 81 their men named
Macf1ane was killed, and two Others named
Smith and johnson, MORALLY wounded, and also
| that there were numerous minor casualties on
their side They claim they killed and wounded
many Catholics but the latter deny that they sus-
| tanned serious losses.
MANY HOUSES BCLLET-RIDDLED.
| Many houses were riddled by bullets When
ever the military appeared the combaiants shifted
| ground. Finally, at o'clock. after the riot act
| had been twice real, troops charged upon the
crowds and cleared the streets temporarily. An
| old man and two women, inmates oil a house on
Conway street from which many shots had been
fired. were arrested. They stated that three men
had forced an entrance into the house and had
remained there all night firing from the roof
| A bowling crowd escorted the prisoners to jail
The mob to day repeatedly fired upon the po-
| lice.
| TAVERN LOOTED.
| A tavern owned by Catholic. situated in the