Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-28
Letter from New YOrlK--After the Riot
Appearance of the City.

NEw YoRK, July 20, 1868.
EDITOR LEADER:-Last Thursday we
visited the scenes of the riot. The large
orphan asylum and grounds presented
complete scene of desolation and ruin
completely gutted and burnt to the ground
the grass and shrubbery trsmpled into
the dust and trees in forlorn condition.
Several of the little innoeents, guilty of
nothing ,ut a dark cOlored skin, were
wounded, at the time of the riot, by the in
furiated Irishnen, and would have been
hung by the inbuman wretches had not
the stage drivers of the Fifth Avenue line
rescued them at the peril of their lives.
They now have all been removed to Black
wells Island.
"Allertons." the old Bulls Head House,
next came under our inspection. This suf-
fered because of the owner openly defying
and "not caring a d-n for any rioter :"
-aRd was total and complete wreck.
The next sight was the ruins Of three
magnificent freestOne private dwellings
which had become the refuge of fleeing
policeman; because not found, the unspar-
ing torch was applied. Then we saw the
remains Of the block where the disturb
ance first broke out on Third avenue. and
where a number lost their lives. Here is
where the noble young Vanderpoel stood
up SO bravely to beg that the buildings
might be spared for the sake Of the help
less and poor women and children in the
upper stories-but was so inhumanly as
saulted and terribly wounded, until res.
cued by the police, with hsrdly the breath
Of life in him. DR.. McGoWan told me last
night that he was now lying at the house
Of one Of our most distinguished physic ans,
where he is secretly kept, in a very pre-
carious condition.
One of the physicians who has taken
care Of q number of the wounded policemen
and others, was assaulted by two men as
he was entering his carriage, and escaped
only by applying the whip vigorously to
his horse.
All the cars and stages we're running
on Thursday again, but the streets were
full of excited knots Of hard looking sub
jects. On the avenues up town there was
some fighting. ~
We saw the place on Forty-second street
where one Of the fleeing Provost guard was
thrown down the preoipice on to the rocks
below, and his body crushed with heavy
boulders, cast upon him by the fends
above.
The upper part of town has been filed
with funeral professions for the past four
days, and yesterday number Of wakes
we're held. Numbers Of the wounded are
dying every day.
Wednesday The military and police play-
ed the very ID with the rioters, and this
morning innocent men, women and chill
dren were killed, yet great numbers of the
genuine murderOus thieves were popped |
over very beautifully, and many carcasses |
descended with the velocity of gravitation |
from the house-tops, to be dashed to fin |
ders on the pavemenis below. The num- |
bers Of the killed and wounded are vari-
Ously estimated at from 300 to 1000 but 1 |
think there must have been from 500 to
QUO Killed and wounded buring the reign
Of terror.
Among the saddest events of the week
is the dispersion and i'll treatment of the
poor, outcast cOlOred population. It has
been regular st. Bartholomew day with
them. Numbers of them suffered a terri
bic death, even to the burning Of the cloth
ing Of one as he was hung, and his flesh
,rlsped by the cruel flames. Some 1900
are now wandering houseless, homeless
and destitute, or concealed in anguish of
BODY and soul-families separated, and
many mourning one another as dead, sf-
'erWards happily to find their desr ones
to life again.
Collections were very generally taken
lp for their benefit in the churches yester-
lay, and to-day the merchants are eener-
'usly moving in the matter.
The asylum for the aged and INDECENT