Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1863-07-16

picked up fragments OF teslaments Tor J
,uarter of mile down Fifth avenue
While the rioters stripped the building OF
furniture, their wives and children, anu
hundreds who were too cowardly to ASSIST
the work of demolition, carried them OH.
The wing while yet unbuming, swarmed
with rioters, who seemed endowed with a
demoniaoal energy to rend IN pieces, ROD
and destroy,
Shutters and doors were torn oil ana
tumbled ints the streets, These were
seized and torn to pieces almost before
thew touched the ground, and, with every
thing else, carried off with surprising GO.
lerity. Several persons were injured, and
it is supposed some killed by the falling OF
shutters and furniture from the windows.
Even the cutters were hewn oil, and the
chimneys tumbled down.
The fire engines were there IN great
numbers, but were not permitted to work,
except upon the adjacent buildings. What
was very marked, as the destruction pro-
ceeded, was the absence OF excltement.-
Things were done as quietly and coolly by
the rioters as if they were saving instead
of DESTROYING property. Mingling with
the crowd-which amounted, perhaps, 10
| 5000 or 5000 persons--were many VINO
were evidently not of them; but except IN
| cases of incautious utterance, they were
not molested.
| One or two persons who a,senpted re-
| monstrance were summary disposed OF,
being beaten and trampled under loot
There were some who, though they took
part in the plumber, seemed to regret the
occasion, and one-a drunken lnshman,
too, with bloated face, a gigantic fellow
whispered in the writer's ear, with evil
dent good will:
Fake yer watch out o. yer pocket,
honey, or some O. the b'yes will take 1t
for yer"
| CORNER OF TWENTY-NINTH STREET AND
BROADWAY.
While this scene was enactlng, a large
detachment of rioters ran down to the en-
rollment rooms corner of Broadway anc
Twenty Ninth street The object here
was more evidently plunder. The lower
part of this fine building was composed o
: stores, filed with costly goods. Every
: vestige was carried off. A jewelers. shoE
was the object Of special attentions. Cole
watches, bracelets, breaches, breastpins
and all manner of valuable biouterie flew
! about in the crowd, flashing IN the hight
The negroes were forgotten in the NOR
|, congenial business of robbery. A gentle
IL man stood by the writer, and unable t
. contain himself exclaimed:
y "This is an unspeakable outrage-a
) an American citizen, | am ashamed"
II The words were scarce out OF his mouth
+ before he was Frustrated by blow troI
> cudgel and his head split open.
y As soon as the stores were stripped, tn
10 cry arose ''Burn the building! burn 1t
-. burn it
u Half hundred willing hands were {
u work in a moment. The house seemed
;! be fired in as many places at once; for
j. was in flames from garnet to basement
VI five minutes. The flames reared IN em
a. a lation of the demons Threats that yellt
u. around them. As at the Asylum, the e.
oV gines were on hand but were forced to
~ idle. The firemen restrained themselv
W. with difficulty -unaccustomed to see U
ne flames rage without fighting them-and
VI length began to play on the adJolnll
y building in which they were not int
ha rupted.
nc The walls fell nearly simultaneous
'u' and with an awful crash, not twenty mi
10 utes after the matches were set. Witt
an hour OF the time OF the FIRST attack,
~, ~ mob was off for the Tribune Office.
ms n Threats against prominent Republic
o., leaders were freely uttered, and varlt
no1 schemes were heard to be canvassed
' lI SQUADS of the rioters.
him ATTACK ON THE TRIBUNE OFFICE.
re
ard About eight o'clock in the evening
b;s excited mob in Printing House Squa
he commenced shouting, grooming, and St
led afterwards large number OF pers
la in the crowd armed themselves with n
8 siles at pile of bricks in the nelghb
o in hood-and hurled them at the windows
,obt the Tribune Office.
, nos When the lower windows were der
~, ished there was rush made for the i
,ol,,- rior of the countlng-room. Papers
mas seized and scattered about the streets
h;cb a match was then applied to a lot of p'
toh inside of the counter. At this lnstan
, b,s strong police force came upon the
E tbo across the Park, scattering the rioters
,cbad all was quiet.
was THE DAMAGE TO GOVERNMENT PROP
medl- The property destroyed in the val
, the Provost Marshals' Offices is estimate
doors about S250OOO.
ctloh. THE FIRES.
'vI Earlev in the forenoon the mob Sc
uon.' to three buildings at Forty sixth street
e ! h;n, Third avenue, one of which was Cal
A. his Jenkins's office.
!. a ~, At o'clock, two brown stone
10 WV houses i'll Lexington avenue, between
and 44th streets, were entered by the
Il. and ransacked from top to bottom,
,enue, fired them, and they were entirely
)out troyed.
rated At 4-35, an attack was made o
urned Bulls Head Hotel, in Forty-fourth S
lat the between Fourth and Fifth avenues
rem the building was destroyed.
Ike de- At $50 o'clock the gun factory a
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