Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1858-09-11

EAsTAS & Co. and personally either Of the PrOpre
The Quarantine CosaElaeration - Every
thing Burned DOVVn--Patients Lying On
the GEOund--The RUins--EE0u the Pa
tients are Cared For--shOcHIng Scenes
United states Vessels Protecting Govern
ment PFOPeFty--Peaee ResIOred--SeTeraI
Arrests, etc.
The mob at Staten Island ng done its worst
by Lay Jog all the quarantine buildings in ashes.
peace now seems 70 prevail there OF the burning
the female hospital Thursday night, the ID inst,
the New York Times furnishes the following inter
esting inoidents
TIE sCEsE INSIDE THz WALLS.
Entering through the breach in the vest side Of
the vail, large party came down 20 The women's
hospital and began 10 remove the patients The
scene was horrible. The poor creatures in every
stage Of suffering, delirious Fl ON fever, and
others Ia a dying state, we're taken out upon Their
reeking matliasses, and placed ore after another
upon the green sWard Of the angle formed BY the
TWO walls, and about fifty yards frOn the bui ding.
Oae who had just died Of yellow fever was p acei
N the covered bier, taken out and set down close
by the others. 0ne wqs pointed cut as just breath
ing her last IRE gaunt features and sunken eyes
of these poor Wretehes as they lay scattered over
the ground we're perfectly visible in the light Of the
burning dwelling behind them Burning cinders
them was The noble edifce, in which they had been
sheltered and nursed, now wrapped in flames from
basement to dome. The roar Of the flames and
clouds Of dense smoke rolling Ur ward the furious
outcries Of he mob, crazy their internal work
all formed scene most horrible and impressive
At one time the mob were intent on carrying the
patients cut into the through he hole 10 the
wall for fear1hat they would be sufJeated by the
smoke and flames. II vas only ty strong remon-
strauces from portion Of the party that this was
not done. The covered way Leading from he build
ing 10 the priVies tern do Wn SO thst the heat
from it would not destroy the sick people These
attentions to the helpless creatures redeems
ing fea urs
Few OF the outsiders ventured in to take q near
view Of the SICK but contened themselvesby getting
sdelong look At them through the hole in the wall
The fact that they were not in present danger Of
destruction appeared 10 satisfy them, and nobody
inquired how they were be provided for EaTds
rLey remained thus exposed 10 The excitemeRfs Of
this appalling spectacle during the whole nght and
three Of them did before morning. Their corpses re-
NAMED unburied with The living up 10 late hour
where they were left the grounc
The fire set in three or four places in this builC
ing, but the centre Of il, about the sfairW y was
where the fire made most progress. The draft up
wards soon carried the flames up the eupola which
was in foil blaze before the wings were Wen under
way. There was only light from the sOuth-
ward, which fortunately cirriedthe smoke and flames
away from the invalids
There was gang Of fellows whose particular de-
light was the smashing in Of windows They were
each provided with short clubs, ard when they
reached the doomed building they first began by
breaking out the windows While this was going
on others entered the place; o1e carried half gallon
measure filled with camphen, which he poured our
literally the pile Of inf 4mmabie materials already
PREF ared by his comrades and hen the whole Wa
st OF with match. When the FIRE was well under
way they passed to the next, and so on By far the
largest number Of those engaged in this outrage
were boys and young not over Is or 20 years Of
age.
FURTHER DCIDENTs-TUE SICK AND DEAD.
While the mob, druken and inluriated, we're bal.
tering away with huge piece Of timber at the high
brick wall which anks the hospital grounds oB the
lower side the sick from he Women's hospital we're
lying in the open air on the inner side Of the wal
Messsrs. Wood and Egbert, two Of the controlling
spirits Of the moo were appealed 70 10 prevent the
demolition Of the wall, which, in its fall, would
surely kill the patients Through their representa-
lions those outside Of the wall were induced to fore
60 their previously expressed determination to
throW the wall down
In the cofin-house far to the rear CT the wCmen's
hospital there we're full 20 or so c. fins; all Of
these we're destroyed. The body Of the engineer
of The Philadelphia, who died Of yellow fever Just
before the hospital fired was y ing IN the build
ing when the inoendiaries approached it The sick
men and women, in their night el sthCs Just arisen,
weakened with illness and dreadlully excited we're
lhrO gjng about DR. Blssell the open ground ad-
joining the building, crying aloud aud beseeching
hiu 10 save them ''WIll they bum US, WIlIhey
burn u.s." they would TePea' cingIBg TO him Ihe
physicians did all they coud quiet the poor erea
lures At this time Il stated that the body Of
the dead man was inside the hospital Some we're
for letting il remain there to be consumed with the
building but Jim, the @dead mac. be is cail'
of quarantine the lakes charge of all the oOTpses Of
dead patients,) rushed into the hospital and, ssiz
log he body, carried it in his and laid Ii
on q bier in The open air.
When the crowd we're about to set fire to DR..
ThOmpsons house, Mr.. TomPkins. the agent Of the
! Staten I-laId ierry line exc aimed, ''For Gods
sake, let's the CaTpets!" NO, said the doc
tor, ''let them burn; ike 10 see them burn" And
| they were consumed with the building DR. lhomP-
/ sIns less is esirmGtsd al from $4,000 10 S6tU'.
| DR. Thompson yesterday was in the city, anu lt was
/ not deemed safe for him 10 60 TO island Iheio
tsl amount Of property destroyed l5 estimated al
| $500, ,GOOO -.......
AFFAIRS AT QUARANTINE ON FRIDAY.
/ All day long the ruins Of the quarantine build
iufs we're visited by curious many OF them from
/ New York and places nearer aHd more remote The
inhabitants of The island adjacent TO the quarantine
grounds were lond in their expressions OF JOY at
| the destruction OF the buildings
Our reporter su ;cecded in edecting an entrance
TO the enclosure where the patents turned out Of
doors by the conf4gratioD we're lying on the grass
| There Fere forty.iour male aud female patients
| there and in a small boat, the Cinderella, Al the
| wharf OF these, twenty were yellow fever pa
| tients three or four were III with small pOX, and