St. Landry democrat., 1888-08-18


I une office, pausfng on the way to destroy an
| other enrolling office at broadway and Fweu,
! ty ninth street. and plumber all the iewelrS
| and drygoods stores near it. About dars
! the advance OF the mob reached The Tribune
!! office. forced an entrance, made a heap OF
| papers on the counting room floor and set
them on fire. but brave police captain LED
| in his squad and drove out the rioters. laying
many of their carcassee stiff on the pave
ment Horace Greeley straightway pus nls
office on war footing. The tanks were kept
full Of boiling water. with the hose and pipes
arranged to turn it on an attaching mob
the employees we're well armed. and supply
of hand grenades was secured Of Commander
Pauiding. of the navy yard The mob came
on subsequent days. but could not hrsng their
courage to the attaching point The general
! course Of plumber and robbery continued on
Monday evening till near midnight. then
heavy rain dispersed the criminals
tuesday morning drought q shower OF pro
rlamatluns-One from Mayor George Olsiyke.
commanding all good citizens to enroll a.
sIAt'ias policemen and designating the rem
devious. another by MaJ Zen Jnhn T.
Wool. asking all old soldiers to enlist fnr or
der still another from Ten Sandford. direct
ing the militia. and various orders ana
announcements But the citizens did not
rally all the militia were absent but one
regiment there we're but few Cnlteti STATES
troops on Governors Island. and so. except
as the p,iice could opEnse. the rioters went
uncheckesi for another day And the action
Of the lolce was worthy Of all praise Again
and again did small squads OF them meet AMI
defeat flaSses of rioters, laying dozens deaf
or wOurnie.! on the street but while this was
going on there would tie turning. murdeI
and piundering In dozen other places
Besides the usual outrages amt murders Of
cOiored people the great event OF this day
Tuesday the lith' was the lnh,in'an murder
of Cot II ! u lSrien OF the Eleventh New
York state trcuTS After serving against
the moi he rashly returned to his house
alone. in the disturbed district En-
conntering there q snail but not very
turbulent mob. he unbranded them In the
most pronounced manner They moved to
wards him he drew his revolver and fired,
hitting woman 10 the knee She fell and
bis fate was sealed Every one in the crowd
was frantic to strike N kick him tie lay
for hours on the pavement. after thPy had
dragged him into the gutter and rolled MN
in the mud and every time he moved enough
to show that life was in him De was again
stamped or beaten In vain did Father
ClOwrey beg for leave To take The colonel
home and testow the last rites for the dying
You have killed him. let NE give him the
rites" said the priest
"You can give the rites here. If you like"
replied the mob. ''yoii can't take him away"
So the priest knelt in the muddy street and
administered the extreme junction. He re
mainsi by the colonel till dark, when death
occurred
Tuesday night an awful calm prevailed,
but the glow of burning buildings showed
where the rioters had done their latest work
Wednesday morning showed that the forces
OF law and order were organized. and the
desperate closing struggle. began It is un
necessary to detail the procsainations, order
and movements. except TO say that from
Governors island. the Brooklyn barrark-
and navy ward with the obi soldiers invalid
corps and one regiment of militia. which wa.
stopped Just az it was ready to take the car.
for Pennsylvania. enough snit,ers WERE
gathered to guard all the arsenais and public
buildings, and leave few hu,niresi to back
the police In clubbing the rioters And the
clubbing was done to the queens taste H.
one brief combat thirty Tioters ~ei'p kille+i
or MORALLY wounded In another y hnwitza,
was fired into n,ob killing twenty iw"
And still the mot held on and seell!esi /.
grow more iendish
Some very curious incidents occurred il
Illustrating the hatred of soldiers and sisgrnes
Many hor,ses were broken open on Suspicion
that wounded soldiers were concealed IN
them. anu IN one instance a csnivaiaAeni
colonel. wounded at charlottesville. sa>
saved only by getting uism the top of TIL
house and lying behind chimney while the
rioters searched the rex,rls .pl,yv A a,l,iip,
who venturesi out TO see II te 'sa,st was rlesli
was captured at the nearest Garner ami
beaten to death The stories OF tspr4Onai AT
venture during the riot wDuid Hi large
volume. At one time the Sixteenth u ara
school house was regularly t%Siegesi because
It contained TWO coiure4t ~on,en. ehe ar1Ii,
bers The piucky teachers barred he .tk,s>
and haffled the NOT till the ,nlIte arrived +!
The rioters in mere blind fury tore up the I
railroad tracks tn the north end OF town and |
sought to destroy the stone bridge over THE /
Harlem Mayor Opdykes house was sacked /
Horace Greeleys old boarding house on |!
twenty ninth street was destroyed Bur
rather strangest Of all WAS a riot within |
riot, in this wise: A Mrs Miller. of No lu1
Sivington street. had harbored German
girl. for immoral purposes. "a supposed. ana
he case against her had failed IN the courts
he girls father and his friends. concluding
hat the reign of law was suspended organ
zed little mob Of their own and DESTROYED
he house.
Thursday morning dawned on a city in
which general business was completely stls
,ended. The worst was over. hut on that
lay and until midnight there were iorai dis
urbances attended with fearful! slaughter OF
he rioters Thirty were shot and t,ayonet
Ell in one encounter Three militia resi
nents arrived from Pennsylvania tina, day
md soon cleared most OF the streets Friday
morning all the street cars and or1nltlses
Eere running again, and the riot was tati
tally deriaretl at an end Then the arrests
'egan. and t'eboid, the great anti war, anti
negro agitatOr. John u Andrews. was can
ured in room with his colorei mistress
lie was native Of Virginia, about IS years
Id. and during his stay in New York had
Ived habitually with colored women, acting
8 their legal adviser and procuring tail
vhen they were arrested Not one in ten of
he arrest ed were native A n,aris.ans