The New York herald., 1863-07-16
A Man, woman aud chiid Shot Dead tn

A Man, woman and Child Shot Dead I'm
the Ei hte, nth Ward.
THE CROWD DIVIDE THEMSELVES INTO MARAUDING
PAKfIEs-HuABERs OF PEOPLE ROBBED On THE
srRIErs-BELLEvUE HOSPITAL LITERALLY SUR
ROUNDED, ETC, ETC.
Tho crowd in the Eighteenth and Twenty nrst wards
az the most excitable character. Frequent raids
made upon negro tenements throughout tho district
aud several buildings wero fred during tho day, but
generally saved by the exertions OF the nremea who,
although well worn out by frequent calls 70 duty, dis
played their usual zeal TO the property in the negh
borhood The crowd seemed 20 increase the afternoon
advanced and by dusk most formidable Between
seyen and eight o'clock the police and military made
attack on them Thirty ninth street and scattered tho
crowd in all directions but they soon rallied and offered
resistance firing several Shots one OF which took elect
In the person OF lady namcd Cummins, who walking
through the street with child in her arms The ball
struck the child, killing It Instantly, and passed into
the body Of Mrs. Cummins, tnatctns q wound
from the effect Of which she shortly died. The
police became greatly ex@peraied and charged
upon the crowd, again scattering them but again
the crowd rallied, and a hand TO hand conflict
ensued in which the wd succeeded in wrestling
Der OF muskets from them. The military soon after ap
peared In East Forty second street. whittier the crowd
had led and at poured voey OF shot into them,
but with effect impossible to learn definitely
One man, named Cosgrove, was shot down and died al
most instantly His bodysoon afterwards disappeared
H s supposed 1t taken away by his friends.
AS night grew on the crowd divided itself into
squads, ranging in numerical strength from fifty
to two hundred, and patroled the streets OF the
Seventeenth Eighteenth and Twenty hrst wards till past
midnight and not unfrequenty stopping pedestrians and
robbing them OF their valuabs Several persons appear
ed the station houses badly beaten and oomp OF
having been robbed hess marauding parties One OF
reporters while passing the Second avenue at the
Of East Twentieth street. was assaed by party
OF hundred who pressed him agpst the railing
OF the building the northeast corner au deliberately
rifed his pockets Of their contents. AT the corner Of
Twenty sixth street and First he met by anO
ther body Of armed with guns and clubs, but elected
his escape them and shouRht shelter In the house
Of Hose Company No. 80. Mr.. Hogan foreman. In the
vicinity Of Bellevue Hospital the crowd was 60 grcat and
the danger imminent that reporter was unable 70
visit 70 obtain list Of the killed and wounded carried
there during the day and might. gentleman, whose
could not learn, stopped on the corner Of
East Nineteenth street and Irving place by crowd Of
men, and hie wallet containing $26 In bank n0tee, md
. valuable gold hunting case watch, taken from him BY
force. A woman named Martha Murray, residing IN
West Twenty eighth street, stopped In First avenue,
East Twenty nth street, by another crowd, who
insuted her grossly by thrusng their hands into her
bosom and otherwise areating her She LETT lying
on the walk almost nsensibe. and was conveyed home
by respectable citizens.
Shortly before nine O'Clock crowd Of nearly one hun
dred rushed upon the negro tenenents in Twenty.
eighth street. Third avenue and after driving the
inmates into the street set fire TO the building Tho fire.
men wore promptly on the spot, however, and extin
guished the flames This makes the third attempt upon
this tenement.