The Dickinson press., 1888-08-04

Tuesday, the l4thl was the inhuman murder
of Col II. 4 O'Brien. of the Eleventh New
York state troops. After serving against
the mob he rashly returned to his house
alone, in the disturbed district En-
countering there small but not very
most pronounced manner They moved to
wards him. he drew his revolver and fired,
hitting a woman in the knee She fell and
his fate was sealed. Every one in the crowd
was frantic to strike or kick him He lay
for hours on the pavement, after they had
dragged him into the gutter and rolled him
in the mud, and every time he moved enough
to show that life was in him he was again
stamped or beaten In vain did Father
Clowrey beg for leave to take the colonel
home and bestow the last rites for the dying
You have killed him, let mo give him the
rites" said the priest.
You can give the rites here, If you like
SO the priest knelt in the muddy street and
administered the extreme unction. He re
manned by the colonel till dark, when death
occurred.
Tuesday night an awful calm prevailed.
nii tho glow of burning buildings showed
where the rioters had done their latest work
cdnesday morning showed that the forces
q" law and order were organized, and the
desperate closing struggle began. 1t is un
necessary to detail the proclamations, orders
and movements, except to shy that from
Governors Island, tho Brooklyn barracks
and navy yard, with the old soldiers invalid
corps and one regiment of militia, which was
for Pennsylvania, enough soldiers We're
gathered to guard all the arsenas and public
buildings, and leave few hundred to lack
the police i'll clubbing the rioters. "And the
Clubbing was done to the queens taste" In
me brief combat thirty rioters were killed
toll Inrl
was fired into mob, killing twenty two
And still the mob held on, and seemed to
grow more tiendish.
Some very curious incidents occurred, il
ltlstlnting the hatred of soldiers and negroes.
Many heNses were broken open OH suspicion
that wounded soldiers were concealed in
them. and in one instance n convalescent
colonel, wounded at Charlottesville, was
saved only by getting upon the top of the
house and lying behind a chimney while the
rioters searched the rooms below. A soldier
who venturcd out to see If the coast was clear
was captured at the nearest corner and
beaten to death. The stories of personal nd
venture during tho riot would fill large
volume. AT one time the Sixteenth Ward
school house was regularly besicged because
1t contained two colored women, the scrub
bcl's. The plucky teachers barred the doors
and bafiled the mob till the police arrived
The rioters in mere blind fury tore up tho
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sought to destroy the stone bridge over the
Harlem. Mayor Opdykc's house was sacked
Horace Greeley's old boarding house on
Twenty ninth street was destroyed But
rather strangest Of all was riot within II
rot in this wise: A Mrs. Miller, of No l01
lGvington street, had harborcd German
girl, for immoral purposes, rs supposed, and
the case against her had failed In the courts,
the girls father and his friends, concluding
that the reign of law was suspended organ
2c.l little mob of their own and DESTROYED
the house.
Thursday morning dawned on city in
which general business was completely sus,
pended The worst was over, but on that
day and until midnight there were local dis.
turbnnccs attended with fearful slaughter of
the rioters Thirty were shot and bayonet-
ted in one encounter. Three militia rcgi
ments arrived from Pennsylvania that day,
and soon cleared most Of tho streets Friday
morning all the street cars and omnibuses
were running again, and the riot was otli
cialy declared at an end. Then the arrests
tmsan, and behold, the great anti-war, anti
negro agitator, John U. Andrews, was cap
tlred i'll room with his colored mistress
He was native of Virginia, about 35 years
old, and during his stay in New York had
lived habtually with colored women, acting
as their legal adviser and procuring bail
when they were arrested. Not ono in ten of
the arrested were native Americans.