The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-13
DEATH FOR RIOTERS.
Dreadful Engines of Destruction
Lately Invented for Use in Street
FiRhing.
From the New York Press,

From the New Ork Press.
Riots are the nightmares of civilization.
There are few great cities in the world
that have not known their terrors, and
this good town has had fully her share of
them. They have been the plague of
statesmen, and on a few occasions they
have dethroned kings. Usually they are
the united rage-the same rage which in
dividually leads the son to strike his
father-Of a small portion of the city's
inhabitants who have suddenly grown
mad over some real or fancied wrong, and
forgetting all the reason which is the
birthright of man they turn for ven
geance to the methods of the wild beast.
Sometimes this beast only growls. Then
its keeper the military, fastens a firm
eye upon it and shows a sharp bayonet
and hollow barrel of steel and it sinks
away-gro Wing. Again, its madness is
80 acute that it forgets that the bayonet
is sharp. and that deadly messenger is
hidden in hollow barrel. Then a few
citizens lie dead before the beast
half of the people of the city
become mad and the bayonet is bent by
contact with human bones and moist
with human blood and the hollow barrel
hot with the work of slaughter before the
beast sinks away, shattered and bleed
ing but still growing. Again, three
fourths of the people become mad. Then
we have French Revolution, and the
beast puts on coat of blood and glories
IN it,
Ask the veteran officer if riots are dan
gerous, and he will rub the beard on his
chin and make reply taciturnly:
"Discipline.'
Brig Gen. OrdwayIofthe militia of the
District of Columbia is our great author
ity on the MOP fighting. His cardinal
principle, in brief, is:
Don't shoot: but always be ready to
shoot. If you do shoot, shoot to kill"
Gen. Ordway has laid down a formu-
lated code of rules as to his conduct of
the militia in times of riot. upon which
the officers in the city are rapidly i'm
forming themselves. The men are to
march from the armory quietly,
without regard to order, if there
street is clear they will at once form
INTO hollow squares, which will fortify
them at all points as they pass along. The
orders will be given By the bugle, accord
ing to the code of signals. Provided the
streets are so full of people as to render
passage cifficult and perhaps lead
unnecessarily to acts of violence, the men
VIII proceed in squads to the appointed
pace near the scene of the riot, where
they will form. This plan will serve a
4 second purpose in deluding the mob as TO
me size of the force which is coming to
zeal with them, and take them by sur
a prise
1t is not probable Othat,the sharpshoot-
ers VIII be brought into use except in eX-
IRENE cases, now that wa have the riot
n gun This new death machine is won
uerful product of the refinement of de-
STuctlve inyentiveness. The Sman who
Invented 1t for the Winchester Arms
company said that it would be a rip
per and his description is perfect. The
winchester people made the gun to sup
ply Jle express companies with some
Sort ola weapon which they could use
~ defending themselves again train rob
Sers, revolvers having proved useless.
only an expert can hit man with revol-
yer at any distance. But if the express
messenger viii employ a cartridge or so
rom the riot gun in the direction of the
Iueny-which can readily be determined
ny tne sum2in's gwine 10 drap.' as
elo old colered man said the first time he
ever saw cannon DISCHARGED.
Inc mechanism Of the riot gun is quite
we same as that of the repeating rifle,
o1Iy the bore is larger and the barrel is
1uorter-tor stricJly practical purposes.
is The most powerful hand arm ever
'paued with powder and shot. 1t weighs
us IMAM the average army rife. It's
-aEaIlhe holds six cartridges, with one
Ia me barrel. The seven cartridges may
hred in three seconds, and II
van ne reloaded in fifteen seconds. In one
minute, one man, therefore. can readily
send out 252 scattering bullets, which will
lously wound and possibly kill at
G.soDahce OF eighty yards. Al a range OF
Ky yards one man should DO able 10 dis
'ts al least 100 men, en- masse. IN
minute FIFTY men firing together, ought
disable 1000 men in q minute. The
hl disciplined soldiers will fall back
heu oue-thiFd theirnumber Is cut down.
''NO'her great advantage Of The riot gun