Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1920 — SHOOT IRISH IN COUNTY CORK [ARTICLE]

SHOOT IRISH IN COUNTY CORK

Several Killed or Wounded inr Attack on Police Barracks. Dublin, Feb. 27. —Two constabulary barracks, at Tlmoleague and Mount Pleasant, County of Cork, were besieged by armed men. The attacking force blocked the roads with trees and cut the telegraph lines to prevent! re-enforcements reaching the towns. The attacks against the barracks lasted for more than two hours, during which time attempts were made to set fire to the buildings by piling hay against the doors. The assailants finally were driven off. The members of the garrisons escaped uninjured. In the morning the bodies of several civilians were found near Ttmoleague. It is believed the bodies were those of members of the raiding party. There also was found, a wounded man who declared that seven other wounded men hadybeen carried kway.