Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — BELFAST STRIKERS RIOTOUS [ARTICLE]

BELFAST STRIKERS RIOTOUS

Troops Finally Fire Into Mobs and One Dead Victim Is a Woman. Belfast. Aug. 13.—Serious and fatal disorders occurred here again last evening. The troops tired into the crowd and a woman and a man were shot dead and a number of others were seriously wounded. The conflict hetweou the soldiers and the rioters took place in the vicinity of the constabulary barracks in the Cullingtree road. The trouble became acute about 6 p. m. when a mob of men and women attacked a police inspector. Soldiers were at once summoned to the. scenes but they were met by a hail of paving stones whicikTesulted in emptying some of the saddles. The ribt net was read, but the maddened mob refused to disperse and kept up a terrific fusillade of stones, hroken bottles and brickbats against the poirce and the military. Bayonet and baton charges failed to rout the frenzied rioters and ultimately the or- 1 der to fire was given. Rioting continued until nearly midnight The rioters stretched chains across the street* to impede the movement of troops, and official reports state that three rioters were killed, six seriously and hundreds slightly wounded. The police courts sat until midnight hearing charges against the numerous prisoners.