. Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives . ith pea behind ear. After the mobleft they cautiously returned to their desks, but upon seeingsome respectable citizens approaching who desired to seewhat damage had been done, they mistook them for anothermob and forthwith jumped out of the windows and usedtheir legs with such effect that some of them did not gethome until morning. After the depot divertisement the riotous gang turnedabout and marched up Broadway, carrying terror in theirpath. They bounced, hustled, and knocked down personswhom invincible curiosity had tempted out, insulted ladi
. Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives . ith pea behind ear. After the mobleft they cautiously returned to their desks, but upon seeingsome respectable citizens approaching who desired to seewhat damage had been done, they mistook them for anothermob and forthwith jumped out of the windows and usedtheir legs with such effect that some of them did not gethome until morning. After the depot divertisement the riotous gang turnedabout and marched up Broadway, carrying terror in theirpath. They bounced, hustled, and knocked down personswhom invincible curiosity had tempted out, insulted ladiesand indulged in every manner of excess. The destructive-ness of the cowardly mob developed itself in wanton attackson private property. With shrewd forethought each oneof the scoundrels freighted himself with all of the stoneand brick ammunition he could carry, and expended itwhere it would do the most evil. Dr. A. B. Cooks andMr. Delaneys-elegant residences were assaulted with disas-ti*ous effect. The crash of the breaking glass and screams. THE BIO SCARE AT L0TII8VILLE, 385 of ladies and children were pleasingly commingled (in theopinion of the mob). Solgers superb confectionery estab-lishment at the corner of Fourth and Broadway, was achoice tit-bit for these epicures of ruin. They shouted withrapture when they came to it, and stoned it until the wholefront was demolished. After this delicate bit of sport hadbeen duly enjoyed, tlie gang marched up Third Street, nearChestnut, and paid their dutiful respects to his honor, theMayor, by saluting his fine residence with a volley of stones,which broke the windows, damaged the pictures and furni-ture, and frightened the family nearly out of their this congenial recreation they continued their courseup Third Street to Walnut, where they desolated a cornerdrug store. Dr. Standifords palatial resideuce, which isbut half a block from Walnut, on Third Street, was tootempting an object for its ravage to be neglected; conse
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