Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1863-07-24
NO. II.
BURNING OF A1LERroN's HOTEL.

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ed Orphan Asylum, aud precieving an uuluck
policeman standing in Allertons Hotel was
u room. rushed in, after ransackiUg the bar an
piliaging The rooms. set fire under the stair
n and in few minutes The building was blazin
on all four corners.
Messrs. Allerion q Co. and their clerk
" had barely time 10 escape with their lives
Most Of their books and papers were destroy
Ell, and the wearing apparel Of all the guest
} stolen We saw one man who succeeded il
getting mis- trunk out and an armfll of loos
clothing. He then set upon and robbed
of all he had A grab was made at his watcl
and the chain broke, which saved it. A Wig
orous effort was made to break open Allertoni
safe, but the fire grew 100 hot before they goi
inside. The safe was taken out yesterday
and the money. very large sum, found unin
iured.
THE CoLoRED ORPHAN ASYLUM
I The Orphan Asylum lin Fifth avenue, rear
Forty-sixrh street,, was fired about O'Clock
in the afternoon. The infuria,ed mob, eager
for any outrage, were turned that way by the
simple suggestion that the building was full
OF colored children. They clamored around
the house like demons, filling the air with
! yels. A few policemen, who attempted TO
make stand were instantly overpowered-
several being severely or fatally injured
While this was going on, few of the less evil
disposed gave notice to the inmates to quit
! the building.
The sight of The helpless creatures stayed,
for E1oment, even the insensate mob; but the
I orphans were no sooner out than the work Of
demolition commenced. First the main bull
ding was guited, and then set on fire. While
il was burning, the large wing adjoining used
as a dormitory-was stripped, inside and out.
Several hundred iron bedsteads were carried
| Oif-such an exodus Of this article was never
witnessed before perhaps. They radiated in
every direction for half mile,
Carpets were dragged away at length; desks.
stools, chairs, tables, books Of all kinds-ey-
erything moveabe-was carried off. Even
the caps and bonnets of the ponr children
were stolen. The writer picked up fragments
oil tesiaments for quarter of a mile down
Fifth avenue. While the rioters stripped the
building Of furniture, their wives and children
and hundreds who were too cOwardly to assist
to the work 0: demolition, carried them of. The
ers who seemed endowed with a demoniRc,., .,
energy to rend in pieces. rob aud destroy
Shutters and doors were torn off and tum-
bled into the street These wera seized and
torn to pieces almost before they touched the
ground, and, with eeeTything else, carried off
with surprising celtrity, Several persons
we're injured, and it is supposed some killed,
by the falling eli shutters and furniture from
the windows EVen the cutters were hewn
Oft, and the chimneys tumbled down.
FiFe-ens5oes were there in great numbers,
but were not permitted to work, except upon
adjacent buildings.
CORNER OF TwENTY-NINTH STREET AND BROAD
WAY.
While these scenes was enacting, large
detachment of rioters ran down to the enroll
ment rooms corner of Broadway and Twenty
ninth street. The object here was more evi-
IDENTIFY plunder The lower part of this fine
building was composed of stores. filed with
costly goods livery vestige was carried Off
jewelers. shop was the object of special at
tentiOns. Gold watches, breaches bracelets,
bresstplns, and all manner of valuable b,joute-
re few about in the crowd, flashing in the
light. The negroes were forgotten in the
more congenial business Of robbery. A gen
tleman stood by the writer and unable to con-
tain himself, exclaimed:
This Is an unspeakabe outrage-as an
American citizen, am ashamed"
The words were scarce out of his mouth, be
fore he was Frustrated by blow from a cudgal,
and his head split open.
AS soon as the stores were stripped, the cry
arose:
Burn the building! Burn III Burn it,"
Half hundred willing hands were at work
in moment. The house seemed TO be fred
in as many places at once, for it was in flames
from garret to basement in five minutes. The
flames reared in emulation Of the demons
tbroats that yelled around them. As at the
Asylum, the engines were on hand bat were
forced TO be idle. The fremen restrained
themselves with difficulty y-unaccustumed to
see the flames rage without fighting them
and at length began TO play on the adjoining
buildings in which they were not interrupted.
The walls fell nearly simultaneously, aud
with awful crash, not twenty minutes after
the matches were set.
POSTMASTER wAKEMAN's RESIDENCE DESTROYED.
The residence of Abram Wakeman, Post
master Of this city, in Eighty-sixth street
(Yorkville,) was pilIaged and destroyed Mon
day night. Mr.. Wakeman at the time was
not at home, his duties as public officerltrans
cending. in his opinion, everything else. The
drst purpose of the rioters was plumber They
stole the furniture and carried it of; took up
the carpets and cut them into pieces yard in
IaI Il
the library,a collection of several thousand
dollars, and removed everything valuable a
bout the premises. Then they finished by set
ting the house on fire. Ii was totally consum-
ed. MIR. WakemaR's loss was about 81 5 900
THE ATTACK ON BROOKS CLOTHING STORE.
The Police of the Third Precinct, under
the charge Of Sergeant Finney Rounds, Brown
and Farrell, were sent to drive ;he rioters
from Brooks clothing store, on the corner of
Cherry and Catharine streets The officers
surrounded the store, which was filed with
men. women and children stealing goods and
sending them in bundles 70 their homes. The
force went in aud rnbbed down the thieves
(sparing women and children.)
The men fell right and left aud the force
succeeded in driving the villains from the store;
and when they left the store, the ruffians fired
about twenty shots at them; but they were
poor marksmen, and did little or no iUjury.-
Great Quantities of the goods had been sto-
leu, and the store was Quilted by the mob of
plunderers. One thief in his haste to make
good his escape, jumped through the window,
bearing the sash upon his shoulders.
AT the entrance of the cemetery Of Gettys-
burg there is posted up a solemn warming"