The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1889-05-18
.Ev|CT|oN's SAD WORK
Midnight Burning of Irish Peasant
Homes in the Hamlet Of
Clongorey
The HIGHLAND LIGHT INFANTRY
Expressee Horror and Disgust at 5he
Duties They We're 0bllged to
Perform.

To-day, says the Dublin Freeman 's
Journal of April s, the little hamlet OF
Clongorey presents scene Of the most
dreadful desulation. If an invading
army had just passed through che place
they could not have left behind them
more marks Of their progress. The
cluster Of cabins that formed the ham
let, or. as the local name has it, the
Bawn of ClongoreY, lies in ruins; the
roof"trees are smoking, and the charred
thatch flies in the March wind as it
whistles through the dismantled houses.
Standing about are the evicted people
gazing at the ruins Of their houses; the
children, not realizing what has hap
pened, are playing about in the debris
OF the :.* =
THE HOMES OF THEIR FATHERS:
and the road is guarded by half-a-dozen
stlwart policemen who walk about with
their heads down, evidently ashamed
Of the 'sdevil's work" at which they
have been assisting. There were nine
houses in the hamlet red together
irregularly about a central space made
by the widening Of the road that passes
through the place. Out of all this
houses but one is standing, and that
fdespite all the efforts of the landlords
and the bailiffs. The story, as told by
! onn of tha v;Ilauars ia inst
AssAD AS ANYTHING! CAN BE IMAG.
1NED.
The houses from which the people
had been evicted On Tuesday and We'd
nosday we're attacked. the doors broMen
in, and the crowbars were pied with
great earnest energy. The rafters We're
sawed across and the roofs soon tum~
bled down. Mr.. Rutledge, the agent
experimenting the work. The bailihs
worked hard and in little time had
the place a heap of ruins. A Mrs. Kel-
ley's house was next visited, but here
the force was stayed by q certificate
from the dispensary doctor of the dig
trict, who had certified that the tenant,
a very old woman, was unfit for removal.
In the rear of this house ran a long
thatched cottage, and this was soon
dismantled, the roof falling after a
| short effort on the part of the emer-
gency men. From the ruins the flames
sprang up. and
THE THATCH FURNISHED FUEL TO THE
| The nearness of the house to Mrs. Kel-
lev's dwelling made the agent fearful
lest the flames should extend to it, and
all efforts were made to extinguish the
fire. This was the ending for the day
of the work Of Mr.. Rutiedge's emissar-
les. AT eight O'clock on Wednesday
night thev had started from Newbridge,
| where they had lain perdue all the day.
The PROCESSION was a strange one. In
common cart sat Mr.. Rutledge, and
with him were Woods and two of the
emergency men, while around them
were
CRoWBARs AND CANS CONTAINING
PETROLEUM.
The first visit paid was to the house Of
John Connolly, and in a few moments
the smoke began to curl upwards and
the flames soon followed them. Con-
no}ly's house was poor one, and was
situated on his holding of three acres,
which he held at rent of SO 7s., the
valuation being 81 5s. This was
judicial rent which had been reduced
by the Land Court from IS IS. The
place is now charred mass of rubbish,
the blackened heap of burned thatch
lies like mourning shroud around the
broken walls, and the black streaks on
the whitewashed gables tell where the
flames Rickered longest. Near this
house are number of dwellings that
are still occupied, and the people when
they discovered Connolly's house in
flames rushed to give assistance to ex-
tingulsh 1t, never dreaming that it was
by the supporters of the law of the land
that the conf1agaration had been caus-
ed. The police, however, drove the
people back, and the flames shot up
merrily towards
THE DARK MIDNIGHT SKY.
By three o'clock six houses were ablaze.
These were the houses Of James Heavy
(Big), James Heavy (Littlel Peter
Keogh, Daniel Donnelly Patrick Kealy,
and John Donnelly. James Heavy's
(Bigl house was a comfortable and
substantial dwelling with good OUT
offices. The work of the firing was car
ried out here with the utmost complete
mess, even the out-buildings being