July 22, 1854 Mountain Democrat
GREAT FIGHT AMONG CHINAMEN- TEN MEN KILLED
We are indebted to Mr. E. A. Rowe, agent of Cram, Rogers & Co.'s Express at Weaverville, Trinity County, for the following highly interesting intelligence:
On the 15th inst., the Chinamen, who have been so long preparing for battle, met and had an engagement one-half mile east of Weaverville, but within full view of the town. Some six or eight were killed, also one white man. A large number were wounded. They are still fighting. Pistols, pikes and spears are freely used. One party is about 150 strong, the other three times as numerous. The Sheriff has failed, after using every endeavor, to quell the difficulty.
Four o'clock. They have ceased for a while, in order to bury their dead. The number killed is ten. – Sacramento Union

Daily Alta California, Volume 5, Number 208, 29 July 1854
Trouble in Weaverville

Sacramento Daily Union, Volume 7, Number 1051, 7 August 1854
Chinese unrest in Weaverville

THE ORIENTAL
OR, TUNG-NGAI SAN LUK,
San Francisco:
Saturday Morning, May 5, 1855
Chinese Battle at Weaverville -
It is rarely we have read or heard anything more calculated to fill every sober mind with pain and shame, for his country and his religion, than the accounts of a late battle between two parties of Chinese at Weaverville, in the north of this State. A body of men from the neighborhood of Macao, belonging to the Yeung-wo Company, and numbering about a hundred and twenty to fifty, had a regular pitched battle with about three times that number of their countrymen from further north in their own province, belonging to the Sze-yap Company. By the aid of Americans and other white men present, who entered into the conduct as a matter of sport, the Yeung-wo prevailed. A speculator describes it in the following language, save some necessary change of the names given.
"The armies would have been much larger if our blacksmiths could have supplied the demands for arms – such as three-pronged forks, lances, sabres, buckles, &c. Besides these weapons, some of the Chinamen were armed with revolvers, bows and arrows, and syringes filled with poisonous liquor. Many wore metal helmets and breastplates.
After a great many barbarous words and gestures had been exchanged by the two parties, the Red Republicans (Yeung-wo people) bravely rushed across the gulch and attacked the right wing of the enemy. The centre of the Imperialists forth with rushed to take them in the flank, but they were received by a volley of stones and revolver's balls from the American spectators. That decided the battle. The Imperialists fled and the Yeung-wo 's gained a glorious victory.
There are seven Chinamen dead and a great many wounded, a dozen of them dangerously. One white man, a Swede by birth, was accidentally killed after he had fired four shots from his revolver at the combatants. Every body here thinks that he was served rightly. The Yeung-wo Company had two killed and six wounded. The interference of the Americans is much blamed, more particularly since they had bound themselves by a written agreement to let the Chinese fight it out alone.
Some hours before the battle, one of the principle chiefs of the Sze-yap Company made a sacrifice to the gods. He took a cock by the two wings, thrust a knife into its heart, caught the blood in a cup, took the blood into his mouth, and spirited it up into the air, after which he pronounced some words to which all of his party responded. "
We venture to say a more heathenish scene could not have been witnessed in Dahomey or Timbuctoo. Oh, why is it that, when these poor heathen come to the Christian land, transactions so horrible throughout are allowed. They may easily be prevented. If thought to be opposed to public sentiment, or if rebuked by a civil officer of the region, they would be arrested at once. This strife, we are informed, originated in gambling and licentious quarrels. Politics at home, as stated by the above writer, have nothing to do with any of these fights. In the names of Civilization, Humanity, and Religion, we pray that such barbarous and dreadful exhibitions, in any part of our State, may be arrested and frowned down. It is scenes like these among ourselves which perpetuateth expithe by which the Chinese designate our race, the "white devils".