Police Intervention 5 - The Limerick Riots - Oct 1912 (sitios de interés)

Descripción del sitio

• Friday 9pm, the second night of the riots.
• Streets that escaped the damage from the first night of the rioting were targeted.
• The first confrontation was on Lower Cecil St. as crowds were booing and jeering the police that appeared on the scene of some recent destruction.
• Rioters broke the windows of Mrs. Hutchinson's news-shop and began to loot the premises.
• The police baton charged the crowd in this area but according to the Limerick Chronicle, most of those that received blows were innocent parties caught between the police and the culprits. 
• The police routed the crowd from here onto George St. "striking left and right".
• Many of the injured were sent to Barringtons Hospital with cuts and bruises.

Mapa del lugar de interés Police Intervention 5

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