The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-08-11
THE BELFAST RIOTS.
SERIOUSNESS OF THE AFFAIR.
Troops and Police on the Flsld-Ths I,attor
Bla@sd foFthe Fatalities that Have oe-
Cured "A Man Shot at ths Grave ofa
PrIsnd-Ths Cause of ths Riots,

BFLVAsT, August lO,-Five thousand
troops and $500 Constables occupy the
disturbed district. The presence OF the
police tend to increase instead Of suppress
the disorders. Protestants declare that
Catholics were the aggressors by wrecktuE
Protestant houses, while Catholics are
equally certain that Protestants were the
aggressors, OF one thing there ia no doubt,
never did two mobs OF different religions
display a more bloodthirsty desire to kill
or MAIN each other, During the hghtingon
Sunday and Monday, whenever powder
ran short, ylragos on both sldes with fat
irons and other implements around large
grains Of blasting powder into . s!zs suita-
BILE Tor small arms, while boys OF ten
years and under melted lead into bullets
and slugs, While the rioters were aring
youths and women stood behind them,
buslly loading spare guns In order TO pre-.
vent q waste OF time, The ihallade
lasted until nine o'clock yesterday
moynlng, whtn ammun ! IN gLvs out
and o taGlt truce ensued, both Bid.H
removing the dead and wounded to their
homes, Both eides are doing their ut
most TO hide their disabled, 0a Monday
the Protestants received . welcome donR'
tion Of twenty-five rifles and much Rmmu,
milton tlrom Ballymaire Bympathizers
while BAllynablinch Nationaliats sent the
Catholics q supply OF ammunition aud
many revolyers, Of the type called "SWeet'
hearts," The plentiiulness Of weapons
will constitute the gravest danger In the
future. There is a general demand for o
house to house search for arms,
THE POLICE ILAMEp.
A visitor whol has been studying the
cause Of the riots writes: A"It Is useless
mIncing matters. The police have ired
upon the slain people from panic II not
from vindiCtiveness. The people assert
that the latter was the cause. The people
regard the police as murdeIera not
protectors. That issue must be
laced. Hundreds Of the people have
friends dead or dying. II is worse than
useless 10 say they wRntonly attacked the
police. The latter now represent the peo-
pie as deadly, death.dealiug enemies. The
friends and neighbors oil the killed and
wounded all regard the police as foes.
Their bare presence is terror to be re.
pulsed, and excludes the idea of Witnesses.
This 10 now the great supreme difficulty.
/ have seen men In respectable houses
throwing stones at q batch Of twenty po-
lice escorted by 100 horse soldiers"
Numerous complaints have been made
Of the behavior Of the police. 0ne 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 i'm.
peratively commanded him to 70 home at
once.
At about s o'clock this afternoon two
men were shot by disorderly persons in
different parts oilhe city. one the men
was shot viii in a Catholic cemetery at.
tending the funeral Of victim Of the
recent riots. Special constablts are being
The military are taking the
place Of the police. A fund has been
opened for the relief OF the families OF the
Killed. .N saf. u. 80 -ffr ...