The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-06-11
THE RIOTERS.
The Orange Excitement in
Belfast.
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT
PIneky Policemen AZ Rough Rioters
DO Bloody work ia Thurs
days Tough Row.
The Belfast Riot..

BkLFAsr. June I0.-The people have
been wrought up 10 state of great ex-
element by the riotons demonstra-
tons OF Oraugemen during the past two
days. All work is stopped, stores are
csused and many residences closed and
barrlcaded. MobS are every street
pre- AIRED for further deeds of violence.
The Orangemen are greatly incensed
at the conStabulary for firing upon
them and threaten TO sack their bar
racks a detachment of soldiers and
police from Dublin and other cities Is
being forwarded 20 Belfast to assist the
authorities in restoring order. AT mid
night a mob of 0rangemen raided a
public house. kept.by a Catholic named
O'Hare, and after sackirg il set iton fire.
The pc ice charged the rioters a dozen
times with bayonets, but each time were
forced ba X by yolleys of stones. The
police were forced to take refuge in tn
barracks, whore they fired upon the
mob from the second story windows.
The mob, however. held their ground
twenty minutes longer. although the
firing of the police was heavy nd in
ceSsant- Scores OF the rioters were
wounded, and it Is known positively
killed. A great many wounded per-
sons were carried away by their friends.
and whether their injuries are fatal or
not is unknown. Twenty rioters who
received bullet wounds are lying in one
infirmary. A large number of Orange
men who took part in the riots were ar
rested to-day. An inquest on the bodies
of those killed will be opened this after
noon.
Four of the rioters who were wounded
by the police in yesterdays riots, died
to-day. Four others are dying. Orange
men are making purchases Of arms, and
are declaring they will have revenge on
the police. At q meeting of Protestants
living on Shsnk Hill Road, resolutions
denouncing the action of the police
were adopted.
The numoer of policemen on duty
in Belfast this afternoon at o'clock
was 300. A number OF troops from
Newry have also arrived 10 assist the
police in maintaining order. The
magistrate has ordered all taverns in
the city to be closed tonight. No mobs
are TO be allowed to congregate in the
streets.
BELFAST, June i0.-The city was COM
paratively quiet this forenoon. Seven
hundred extra policemen are now in
town. Six hundred Loyalists drilled
near the city OF Armagh last night. An
eyewitness Of the riots on Wednesday
gives the following description of the
scenes, attending the mob's attacks on
Bowers Hill Police Station. Men armed
with pokers pried up the paving stones
ard broke hem into suitable sizes for
the use Of the rioters when they ran short
of missiles. The women and young
girls desperately entreated the men
to continue the lighting whenever they
tagged, offering them an apron full OF
fresh stones, and when entreaiy failed.
the girls drove the men on by savage
threats. The police station is a mod
crate sized dwelling house. When the
mob attacked the building. the
police responded with volley from the
doorway. but the rioters soon
retreated upstairs and thence main
tanned the fight on their side by shoot
ing from the windows of the front bed
room on the second floor. They held
their position half an hour. during
which the bottle was hot aud savage
on both sides. When they were
reinforced by the arrival OF seventy fresh
officers, the increased energy OF
the police warfare served but TO ag-
gravate the mob. and they became
fsrocious- They were maddeDed by the
sight of their comrades shot down.
writhing and bowling with agony in the
street. I have since heard ole officers
saw they they meyer knew q mob
show greater viciousness, violence.
PLUCK and determination Despite
their desperation, the rioters hurled
their missiles with regularity and pre-
cision, as IL they bad been drilled in
stone throwing Wnea the. mel in the
front had exhausted their ammunition
thew would retire to- receive fresh
armfuis from the women, and thus
make way for their comrades with new
supplies. Some of the stone throwing
was quite extraordinary. The better
armed Of the rioters carried what We
call here Belfast Kidneys" These are
stones about five and one-haif inches
long. three and one-han incher broad,
and weigh on an average about one and
pounds. There were many
BOYS among the rioters, and they we're
as desperate and pluckv as the men,
The battle at the station ceased when
$50 soldiers came 20 the aid of the
police The soldiers were from the
Highlsnders and Fusiliers, and they
soon drove the mob away People
living in re neigborhood where the
riot1ng began say il was caused BY the
poIice- under mistaken impression a.
10 the molesfing and cudgeling Of some
orderly workmcn leaving the foundry.
According 70 this story, the populace got
angry at the police for their cruel and
unius t;Iiable conduct, and attempted
TO make them desist. When q conflict
vas imminent. the story goes. the mob
oasret ID behave If the public were
but not otherwise.