The New York herald., 1863-07-16
SCENES IN THE ELEVENTH WARD.

Threatened Destruction OF tho Gas House.
Considerable excitement prevailed IN tho Eleventh
ward during In consequence Of the presence Of
q large crowd, whose actions forbode trouble. They
congregated in tho afternoon In quito threatening body
at the fost of Fourteenth street, Ia the vicinity OF the
gas house, and heard say that they would
put the city In darkness. Many or the workmen had
been driven or and the prospect thathe supply Of
gas would indeed be insufficient to light the city. Tho
engineers fearing shs published tho following notice 70
TO rux ED,soR HERALD.
MANHATTAN GAS WoRKs, NHw Y0RK, July ID, 1888
VIII you please request citizens ~ the gas
sparngly possible for couple q evenings Our men
Yours, jos. A. sABBALoN, Engineer.
Every precauop had been taken 10 guard against any
which might be made against the building
The crowd, however, became noisy, and soon after
half grown boys began smashing the windows
with stones a number q men, and also women,
joined ia the attack aud nearly every window Ia the tui
ing rdd!ed ia short time. II feared that they
ud break the place and destroy the works ln'or
nation Of the aY4r sen, TO headquarters
possible and detachment of soldiers ordered doen
10 the scene. A The crowd numbered only few
hundred, the military short timo drove thcm
of without having occasion % their musksts 1Le
people seemed terribly excited and held discussions Ia
small knots tho corners 10 the vicinity a. 70 wat
they would do, Every person whom Trey suspected =
beaten. one colored chased down avenue d
bn succeeded Ia making hs ESCAPE BY dartiny through
10 Ise near thirteenth street and climbing over tho
feices In the II life death with the povr
fellow, asd he got out of the way nimhy. Two men
pointed out being abotloniss, which excited lhs
or wd and they gave tbom good chase down avenue
and up rhirteensh street
Charles CHECKER, 4 young German, was knocked dotn
and robbed OF hs oeketbook Thlrteouih street,
ascnue A. He was not seriously injured, and appeared
to be thankful w. get on as cheaply as he did
There member oi women brought ont by The
demon straon In avenue y, and crowd posted them
selves 10 Formidable array in front n Higgins store
ho corner a aud Fourteenth street No attack
however made IN the store.
Many tho taken from the soldiers fues
u,on gss house; but this reporter dd not VII
The detachment " soldiers brought down yeier
dy morning toOs session .: tle building, which
seemed o. have tie fleet u teeqns The eroAd Al lay
Bam'e er ef Ito citizens oi The Eleventh saf5 Assem-.
bcd q the Eleventh. pfscinct station house i1r ha 40.
pese IL enrolling thenscyes asaist the police n TO
the property a the residents - the ward ani
from The number who uressntci themselves u Il 81 rshl
tho force would be very cfcient Many ~ the reeet
seemed quite terrified, fearing that there would ~
newal a Tho attempts T. burn NJ The properly there
we're attempts made durng the nght - SET Gre y
the arg. lumber yard ~ Meesr OgeH CO.. al the foot
0f Ihirtecuth street bot the flames uxnGGitAei
before they had made much progress Another attempt
made IRE 10 the coal yard at tho foot az I0sT
teenb street but the flames not permitted = se'
under hcad.ay AZ sbogt halfpast tso O'Clock thc a.
Der yard ~ ogden Co discovered u be ire and
every effort made u mbdge The flames II proved
quite gnavaing, and In the courss q few hours some
4 gz1 worth GeStrCyed