New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1857-07-06

'.,h the Weapons Of war; and the fight was renewed
,,;,b fearful effect. Though fighting against twice
,bcir NUMBER, the Bowery Boys kept the Dead Rab-
Lifts az far back as Mott street.
put in the midst Of this sconc the alarm again
sounded among the Dead Rabbits. "The Mctnpoi-
tsps are coming again" The cry was passed along
fem one to another, and some Of the timid rushed
into their houses, or down Mulberry and Mott street,
and for a moment the Dead Rabbits ceased throwing
their missiles.
At 6:iO O'Clock Sergeant Hicks of the Sixth Ward
Police marched around the corner Of Baxter into
Bayard street with between thirty and forty officers
ten of whom were of whom were of the regular force
he having been sent by the Superintendent to quel
the disturbance the news of which had reached White
street Again the bricks and stones were showered
from the house.tops and windows by the hundred,
many of which struck the officers causing severe
injuries.
The attacking party in the street, however, was
small the greater portion being engaged in the fight
with the Bowery Boys; and the officers, though tho
numbers which they were fighting in the street were
three to one were yet able to offer an effective resist
ancc Nearly dozen arrests were made aud the par
ties conveyed to No. SO White street. But scarcely
moment passed that some one Of their number was
not stricken down by the missiles hurled at them from
the housetops. Against these they had no protection,
as at least twenty were throwing at time. Fully
half of the officers by this time had gone of with
prisoners, and few of them remaining, were badly
cut and were compelled to leave the of riot
best they could.
As the ranks of the police became thiuned down the
Dead Rabbits became inspired with new courage, and
over hundred rushed into Bayard street from Null
berry and made an attack OIL the few remaining Of
fcers, many of whom were frightfully beaten. AT
this time Sergeant Hicks and two of his officers had
iioter in custody on the of Mulberry street,
when a rush was made upon them by some twenty
b. 1T men in an attempt to the prisoner. In the
exigency Sergeant Hicks drew his pistol at the sight
of which the mscreants kept at bay, and he and his
men were enabled to get out Of the crowd with their
prisoner. minute or two after the officers had all
disappeared most Of them escaping from the vicinity,
but in ore or two instances the facts of which will be
detailed in another column they only escaped from
the infatuated mob into the yards and houses on Bay
ard street.
The force at White street being insufficient to re-
store ORDER the Deputy Superintendent gave orders to
the men to remain there.
Meantime hostiliies continued between the
Bowery boys and the Dead Rabbits the former still
holding possession Of the brick pile; but on the re-
pulse of the police the Dead Rabbit force was in
creasd by the accession of couple OF hundred men
who had been engaged with the offices, and making
grand charge with clubs and missiles they succeeded
in dsloding the Bowery boys and gaining possession
of the brick pile The Bowery boys retreated to
Elizabeth street, where they again made stand, and
the fighting was resumed with renewed vigcr.
Up to this point our reporter had viewed the riot
fiom the west side of Baxter street, faciDg Bayard;
but with the repuse of the police, the throwing OF
stones was discontinued and he enabled to take
nearer point of observation from wagon standing on
the corner of Mulberry and Bayard strees-a distance
of square from the Dead Rabbits and two squares
from the Bowery Boys. II was at this point that he
FIST discovered the belligerents employing firearms.
II lie difficult to ascertain from which side the first
shots were fired, because Of the frequency of pistol
shots fred by boys in honor of the Fourth; but at
tie commencement the shots were by far the most
frequent from the Bowery Boys.
At 7.o'clock several of the Dead Rabbits carried
down Mulberry street one Of their party, named Fat
Kane who had been badly wounded in his knee by
suI shot. Soon after the Dead Rabbits began to
emerge from Mulberry and Mott streets with muskets
and pistols which they would fire at the Bowery Boys
from near Mott street. and then retreat to load. The
effects of the Dead Rabbits shots our reporter was
unable to judge Of he being two squares distant from
the objects aimed at; but far as can be learned
since not one of the Bowery boys fatally injured
The shots of tie Rowery crowd, however were more
effective nearly all of the killed being of the Dead
Rabbit crowd. The recklessness of some of the men
seemed almost unaccountable. One of the Dead Rab.
bits stood for fnll fifteen minutes on the top OF the
brick pile throwing bricks at the Bowery boys, while
at the same time the bullets were whisthng by In
fearfully ominous manner. At intervals of few
minutes the wounded would be carried away from
Bay ard street their homes and others to the
City Hospital. As the firing increased in frequency
the Dead Rabbits rereated from their position at the
brick pile toward Mott street.
One man was observed by our reporter to come out
twice from Mulberry street and fire a musket. The
third time the gun missed fire; the lock had hardly
sprung however, when he struck in the forehead
by musket ball and fell This circumstance happening
within fifty feet of our reporter impressed him with
the idea that they getting altogether too careless,
al he concluded to retire from the Dead Rabbit
vicinity which he did the BOwery boys were in the
act of throwing across Bayard street at the foot Of
Elizabeth, brricades consisting Of Wagons and hose
carts.
Passing around through Mulberry street into Canal,
and thence down Elizabeth our reporter was soon
behind the barbados of the Bowery Boys. Soon
after the Dead Rabbits discovered throwing bar
ricades across Bayard street at Mulberry The weap-
ons employed at this time were firearms almost
wholly dozen or so Of the Bowery Boys, how
ever, kept themselves in front Of the bsricade and
employed themselves in throwing pieces of brick at
such Of the enemy as dared to show them
selves around the corner Of Mott street.
a woman displayed a remarkable bravery at
this time Several times she came out of Mott street