The Manitowoc Pilot

Attack on our Soldiers in Baltimore
Shortly after ten o'clock on Saturday night a street fight was indulged in on Lewis street, an equal to which has not disgraced our city for a long time. For the many reports concerning the affray we give the following as the most reliable: On the night in question several soldiers belonging to the New York fifth (Zouaves) regiment, while passing along Central avenue, near Fayette street, were suddenly attacked with bricks by a crew of about twenty persons. The soldiers not caring to be injured, drew their revolvers and fired several shots at their assailants. The latter fled and were pursued by the soldiers into several houses on Lewis street, where the attack was renewed from the windows and houses. bricks flying thick and fast, and revolvers popping from all directions: by this time the fight had assumed a serious form. a number of females of bad repute assisting in the attack by throwing bricks at the soldiers and the attacking party shouting at them from behind corners and from windows,- After a desperate struggle the police arrived. and succeeded in quelling the riot. One of the soldiers received a pistol shot in the left hand, while another was shot in the right leg. Several others were badly cut and bruised from brick and other missiles. A female named Lucy Miller was shot in the muscles of the right heel. while another female had her head badly cut with a brick. The screams of the females and imprecations of the combatants. mingled with the rapid discharge of pistols, threw the neighborhood into the wildest excitement. A rigid examination by the military and civil authorities will be had. and the guilty parties punished severely.- Baltimore Clipper Feb 3.