The Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1863-1886, 1863-07-23
GREAT RloTI IN NEW YORK
BUSINESS SUSPENDED.
1 NUMBER OF THE RIOTERS KILLED
THE RIOT sUBsIDING.

day will probably witness its end.
There is no doubt but that vastly
largernumbers engaged in it yesterday
than Monday.
All the large manufactures have
closed. Labor Of the docks and ship
yards has been suspended. The OBJ
/ iect of the rioters yesterday, undoubt-
edly, was plunder. At noon, yester-
day, the rioters turned out about five
thousand strong, They attacked the
Union Steam works, corner Of Twenty
second street and Second avenue. At
two o'clock three hundred police ar
rived. ......
The rioters were in possession Of the
building, and finding escape impossible
they made an assault on the police, who
shot five of the mob. About twenty
remained in the building. The rioters
becoming desperate again assaulted the
police, who Killed fourteen Of the ruff
fans.
Four were killed and number injur-
ed by jumping from the second story
windows. As the dead were borne
from the scene, men, women and chill
dren ran bowling through the streets
in the most frantic manner.
The rioters were then dispersed, and
the police held the building on yester-
day morning.
The mob gutted the house of Colonel
IO'Brien, of the 1lth New York Volun-
teers, who rendered his services to sup
press the riot.
A force of three hundred policemen
have charged upon the mob, and driven
the rioters into the houses, the officers
charging them all over the buildings
and telling them with their clubs.
A detachment Of the 1lth Regiment
reached the scene and aided in dispers,
ing the mob. Colonel OBrien, who
went forward near the crowd, was set
upon and beaten to death almost in.
stantly.
A crowd aherward amused them.
selves by firing at his head, as he lay
on the sidewalk, and afterward hung
him to a lamp post. He was then taken
downand thrown into the streets, where
he remained up to eight o'clock last
evening.
All jewellers and money brokers were
closed. also the Cnstnm house and Aa
say offices.
The mob fired the Ferry house at the
foot of Forty street. Early in
the morning the mob assembled OIL
Fifth avenue, at the Mayors house, ,ant
broke the plate glass windows.
Colonel Mauniere and few friends
with clubs and revolvers, checked then
until they were relieved by the police
and United States soldiers.
The mob made an onslaught on th'
negro dwellings in Thirty fifth street
but fortunately the occupants had beef
taken to the Station-houso for safety.
New YORK, July ia terrible on
slaught was made on negro dwelling
on York street last night, amid til,
shriel1s and groans Of the unfortunate
women and children.
A collision occurred on Forty -fourtl
street this morning, in which three sol
ders are reported killed.
Report says there has been quite al
importation of rowdies from Baltimor
and Philadelphia, but it is discredite,
by well-informed persons.
Mayor Opdyke recommended imme
diate proclamation of martial law
Governor Seymour opposed it.
This afternoon the mob again collect
ed in Thirty-second street, near wher
a negro was hanging. Failing to dis
, perse, "a howitzer was turned upon then
loaded with canister The first dis
charge wiped out six; two more dis
charges increased the number to twen
} ty-two, when the villains alive skedad
died.
Two negroes were killed this after
noon, one on Pier No. 4, and the othe
in Washington street.
Harper d Brothers, and M.&A. Gray
printers, and others, have been warne
= that their establishments would be des
, troyed if the wOrkmen are kept o
duty.
Colored pooplo are fleeing from tn
city in all directions.
We have some particulars of tn
riot in Thirty-seventh street to-day
Another attack on the 7th Avenue Al
senal was to be made. A dctachmen
of 220 men, with an artillery compan,
with four twelve pound howitzer'
proceeded to the corner Of Thirty-sev
enth street and Broadway, The stree
from Sixth to Seventeenth avenues wa
crowded with men, women and chi
dren. Fifteen minutes were given fc
the crowd to clear the street.
No one stirred; and at the eXpiratio
of time allowed, artillery, loaded wit
canister, opened, and five rounds wer
fired. A good many were hurt, but
is not known how many. The stree
was cleared, the military having dis
pcrsed the mob from the vicinity, Th
fremcn checked the flames, SO tht
| only three or four buildings wer
burned.
The rioters then proceeded to SO
street, and erected a barricadc ofwag
ons across Thirty-third streetand FIT
and Sixth avenues. Some hundred
, =, of negro women and children were a
l lowed to escape, but mono of the negr
: men. Buildings occupied by colorc
, people were set on fire, with the inter
ton of burning the colorod men i