More Fighting in Belfast

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 55, 19 October 1886, Page 3

More Fighting in Belfast

There was a desperate riot in Davis street, Belfast, on September 19. A policeman arrested two drunken men for fighting. A mob immediately gathered around the officers and threatened violence, and it was with great difficulty that the prisoners were secured. As soon as the barrack doors closed behind them, a fearful attack was made upon the building by the mob outside. The shutters were torn down and the windows smashed. There were only four constables in the baiTacks, and they fired eleven rounds, killing one man and wounding eleven. It is said that a woman was wounded, and subsequently, died in her own house. The mob was scattered by reinforcements of police, but gathered again, and only dispersed at the persuasion of a number of priests. At noon on Sept. 20th a large body of the Queen's Island shipyard workmen, all Orangenieu, raar<_ed ostentatiously to and from dinner, as if to provoke a fight, At Carriek Hill they were attacked with stones, and a desperate fight ensued. The police were outnumbered and powerless to interfere. Many men «n both sides were wounded. The Catholics evince a more bitter spirit against the police and soldiers, and the appearance of a single constable in x one of the troubled districts was greeted with hooting and he received a shower of stones. Rioting was resumed at dinner time on the 21st, at the juncture of North Cuniberlandstreet and Falls-road, by Catholic mill hands stoning the police on duty to keep the OrangeiHen of Queen's Island shipyard from coining in contact with the former. The stone-throwing was so heavy and skilful that the police had to retreat as far as ShankhilL Another mgb attacked with stones the Black Watch regiment of Scotchman, although the soldiers were fully armed and in fighting array. Still another gang got into a fight in a tram car. They overthrew a passing car, and bombarded others with stones, inflicting great injuries on the passengers.