The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-06-11
The List of Fatalities Much Larger than First
Reported - Eight Persons Known To Be
Dead, and Eight Others Mortally Hurt.
The Riot Said To Have Been Caused by
Injudicious Actionof the Police.
Renewal of the Rioting at Lurgan-Mr. Glad
stone Makes Formal Announcement of
His Intention To Dissolve Parliament.
THE BELFAST R,OTING.

Eight Persons Killed and Eight Mortally
Hurt-The Story Told by an Eyewitness.
BELFAST, June 10-The people here have
been wrought to state of great excitement by
the riorous demonstrations of Orangemen during
the past two days. All work is stopped, stores
are closed and many residences are closely barri-
caded. Mobs are in every street, prepared for
further deeds of violence The Orangemen are
greatly incensed at the constabulary for firing
upon them, and threaten to sack their barracks.
Detachments Of soldiers and police from Dublin
and other cities are being forwarded to Belfast
to assist the authorities in restoring order.
At midnight mob of Orangemen raided pub
lie house kept by a Catholic named Chara, and
after sacking it set it on fire. The police
charged the rioters dozen times with bayonets,
but each time were forced back by volleys of
stones The police were finally forced to take
refuge in the barracks, where they fred upon
the mob from the second-story windows The
mob however. held their ground twenty min
utes longer, although the firing of the police was
heavy and incessant Scores of the rioters were
wounded, and it is known positively that six
and two women were killed. A great many
wounded persons were carried away by friends.
and whether their injuries are fatal is not yet
known. Twenty of the rioters who received
bullet wounds are lying in one infrmary. A
the riots were arrested to-day. An inquest on
the bodies of those killed will be opened to-day.
Four of the rioters who were wounded by the
police, in yesterdays riots, died to-day, and four
others are dying Orangemen are making large
purchases of arms. and are declaring they will
have revenge upon the police for firing into
their ranks.
At meeting of Prctestants living on the
Shank Hill road resolutions were adopted de-
nouncing the action of the police of outlying dis
tricts in coming to Belfast and attacking peace
full citizens, and demanding their withdrawal
The number Of policemen on duty in Belfast
this afternoon at 8 o'clock was 1900. A number
of troops from Newry have arrived to assist the
police in maintaining order. The magistrate has
ordered all the taverns in the city to be closed
tonight, and no MODS are to be allowed to con-
gregatein the streets
The city was comparatively quiet this after
noon. 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 de-
scription of the scenes attending the mob's at
tack on the Bowers Hill police-station:
'sWomen with pokers pried up paving-stones
and broke them into suitable sizes for the of
the rioters when they ran short of missiles
Women and young girls desperately entreated
the men to continue the fighting when
ever they tagged, offering them arm
f,,1o cf nd Uh oil
they drove the men on by savage threats.
The police station is a moderate-sized dwelling
house. When the mob attacked the building
the police responded with a volley fired from
the doorway; but the rioters soon drove the
officers in, and they retreated upstairs, and
thence maintained the fight, on their side, by
shooting from the windows of the front room.
They held their position for half an hour,
during which the battle was hot and savage on
both sides, when they were reinforced by the ar
rival of seventy fresh officers. The increased
energy of the police warfare served but to az
gravate the mob, and they became furious.
They were maddened by the sight of their COM
rades shot down, writhing and bowling with
agony in the street have since heard old off,
GERS say that they never knew mob to show
greater viciousness, pluck and determination.
Despite their desperation, the rioters hurled
their missiles with regularity and pre-
cision, as if they had been drilled in stone
throwing. When the men in front had exhaust
ed their ammunition they would retire to the
rear to receive fresh armfuls from the women,
and thus make way for their comrades with new
supplies. Some of the stone throwing was quite
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such vigor that it crashed through a window,
struck rear wall, and rebounded with such
force that it struck and hu.t policeman. The
better armed of the rioters carried what
we call here Belfast kidneys These
are stones about Ave and a half inches
long, three and half inches broad
and weigh on an average about eleven and one
half pounds. There were many boys among
the rioters, and they were as desperate and
plucky as the men. The battle at the station
ceased only when $50 soldiers came to the aid of
the police. The soldiers from the Hill
FOUNDERS, and they soon drove the mob away"
A waitress belonging to a tavern adjacent to
the Bowers Hill station was shot through the
brain. A youth standing at the bar in tavern
opposite the station was shot A girl named
Minnie McAllister, who was out to buy pair of
shoes, was shot in the cheek. A boy named
Kale was shot in the breast. A bar-maid named
Kelley was shot in the head. A strange boy
was found shot dead in house into which he
had evidently run to witness the riots.
The people living in the neighborhood where
the riot began say it was caused by the police,
under mistaken impression. molesting and
cudgeling some orderly workmen leaving a
foundry. According to this story, the populace
got angry at the police for their cruel and un-
justifable conduct, aud attempted TO make them
desisI When conflict became imminent, the