The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-30
sANDERsoN,s FORT.
Eight Hundred Constables and Soldiers Over
come the Small Garrison.


Eight Hundred Constables and Soldiers Over
| come the Small Garrison.
! New YORK, Aug. 29-The Herald's cable spe-
cial says: Lord Clanricarde has won victory
over Sanderson. The Marquis triumphs over the
| peasant Eight hundred were too many for
thirty At daylight all the church bells for miles
around the fort began to peal, horns were blown
and the people assembled to witness 200 soldiers
| 700 constables. fifty emergency men and a score
| OF bailiffs capture the fort That this would be
done was foregone conclusion, when the ram
and its protective little roof arrived. One can
see what the latter means by referring to the
pictorial edition of Josephus. In Roman times
shed protected the batteries from slings, ar
rows and missiles. In Salisbury's time it pro-
tects them from the lime and hot water
OF the besieged tenants. Soldiers were
formed in a field near the house, with
fixed bayonets. This was to overawe the
people. The crowd was soon thousands strong,
but the remonstrances of the parish priests
against violence was more effective and the
| black frock and beads more inspiring than the
red coats and shining STEEL Around the house
two relays of police were posted one supporting
the other, which formed the storming party.
The bailifs and their assistants carried scaling
Tie placed in position against the side
of a stone wall. The ladders had been raised
and the tools made ready for work, when there
fell torrents of boiling water, flung out from the
loopholes by the men inside, together with hand
fuls of wet lime. Some of the emergency men
proved not to be SUCH and ran bowling away.
Their places were taken by the other squad with
pickaxes, which on the roof did what neither
ram nor crowbars could, and soon made holes in
the roof These holes however, aided the hot
water men in getting fresh opportunities.
Nature furnished the latter with unexpected
allies Bees, which were hiving in the rafters,
rushed out at the beleaguerers, stinging them.
The police were ordered to storm the openings
when hand to hand fight occurred, which last
ed many minutes. But numbers prevailed, ard
the law officers entered. Seeing that the game
was up, about twenty insiders rushed out, carry
inr rude vessels filled with hot water, which
they dashed in the faces of the police. Some
were aided by tho populace and escaped. The
rest of them, with about thirty defenders, were
captured and handcuffcd. Meanwhile. the great
popular tumult gave them more scalders. ''Tim,
throw IL harder" and like exclamations of en-
couragement, were heard, rningling with the
groans of the people, and the odd cries of wom-
en- and children The first act of an emergency
man was to pull down the green flag which for
days had been floating from the chimney When
the defenders we're brought out they were
greeted by the populace with great cries of sym
pathy. The hero of the occasion, however, was
bailiff named Page. who. during the storming,
got excited, and, exclaiming "Too bad; re-
sign" handed his big truncheon to one of the
parish priests, amid the exultation of the masses
who surrounded Page. There was no injurious
disturbance or riot, even when Sanderson, who
found the maxim untrue IA mans house is his
CASTLE" was led away, escorted by the military
This offense of armed resistance to the law by
the tenants is a serious one. Many of the pre-
viously resisting tenants have already been in
dicted, and are to be tried on Monday at Balin-
aSole Finally, the bailiffs began turning out
ia Of ha far who had rnvio clxz
taken quarters with their neighbors The police
found an immense fire of faggots in the resi-
dence, over which were the huge washing ket-
Ties from whose contents many of the storming
pected that other evictions in the neighborhood
will be resisted