The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1916-01-12

gained IN fury. A small force OF the
invalid corps was rushed to the scene
of trouble, but was overpowered and
driven off. By that time the rioters
numbered thousands instead Of hun
dreds.
The flremen were called out, but
they loitered on the way and when
they did appear they were greeted
with jeers and derisive applause
They made no attempt to save the
burning building: but succeeded in
stopping the spread OF the flames
after several adjoining buildings had
been destroyed.
The mob began to march through
the streets. The loafers of 10000
saloons poured out and Joined the
procession. Word was spread through
the city of the success Of the insur-
rection, and men who opposed the
draft turned out by the thousands.
There was no force to cope with
the situation. The police, although
well organized, were powerless. The
city's militia was in the interior Of
Pennsylvania and there was only a
small military force at Governors
Island-a handful-in the forts COM
manding the sea approaches.
The mob moved over the city call
ing at gas houses, railroad offices,
workshops and factories demanding
that all work be stopped and the
laborers join the ranks. Through
either sympathy or cowardice the de-
mands were generally granted.
BY 8 o'clock in the afternoon the
city was in g. tourmoil. Drunken,
believing men roamed the streets,
pIundering shops and attacking
dwellings Of persons said to favor
conscription.
The lowest elements in the city
swarmed out by tens Of thousands
and rushed through street after
street. 1t was worse the two follow
ing days.
A negro boy was chased at full
speed by a hundred white men.
Negroes were turned out Of their
houses, beaten and several were
killed. Others, in abject fear, hid.
A negro man was hanged on a
busy street, his clothes set afire
and his body left hanging for
hours.
The Negro Orphan Asylum, at
Fifth avenue and Forty-sixth
street, was sacked and burned
while the two hundred inmates
fled. The furniture was carried
out ard taken away by the women
folk Of the rioters.
An enrolling office at Twenty
ninth street and Broadway stood in
block of stores, one Of which was
goldsmith's shop, Aeavily stocked
with jewelry. Every store was loot
ed and stripped and the buildings set
afire. Firemen were forbidden to-
fight the flames. II twenty minutes
the walls crashed down and then the
iremen were allowed to play their
hose.
The riots kept up for three days.
In Brooklyn grain elevator valued
at 100000 was burned. A small
body of soldiers was called in from
duty on the harbor, and they, with a
body of militia hastily mustered in,
began crowding the mob back into
IS own quarters. There was more
lighting for time, but less plunder-
ng and burning, and the rioters be-
gan to lose spirit as they saw. their
members fall before rifle bullets. A
number were killed.
The climax had been reached. Gov.
Seymour addressed the rioters from :.
he city hall and promised to use his
influence in Washington. to have the
iraft SUSPENDED. News Of Federal
;uccesse- also sapped enthusiasm.
The disturbances dwindled down to
soIated robberies and attacks upon
negroes.
One force of rioters, however, held
he eastern upper part of the city,
where there were many large tene-
nent houses. It was in that district
hat a Col. O'Brien, commander of a
volunteer regiment, had been follow
ID to his home the second day and
,eaten to death. His body was then
lragged through the streets with a
'ope around his neck.
The rioters made their last stand
Thursday. evening near Twenty-thlrd
street and Third avenue. A small
,ody of soldiers opened fire on men
Who were stoning them from house
ops. Other soldiers entered the
houses and maGe prisoners of all the
nen they found. Thirteen rioters
we're killed, eighteen HouI1ed and
wenty-four made prisoners.
Several regiments of militia re-
urned from Pennsylvania and were
oon followed by veterans from the
army of the Potomac. Riots ceased.
There had been similar and stimuli
aneous disturbances in Boston, Jer-
icy City. Troy and Jamaica and in
many other places. but they were
ended with the collapse of the New
York insurrection. ~ |
The city authorities, to avoid fur
her trouble, borrowed and appro-
,riated large sums Of money to pay
or volunteers. and the city's quota
vas filled without conscription. Con-
however, went on through
,ut the Union, and GraEtwa enabled
o raise the gigantic. armies that