The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1871-07-14
ksow the names Of tho killed and wound.

l cd. 9lj
When recognitions took place the HI.
bernisn sympathy md grief was heart
rending 70 witness. II is simply impossi-
Bile 70 give any full and correct idea Of the
occasion. .'
At the sixteenth. precinct station, in
West Twentieth street, was
GuAsTLY SPECTACLE.
A large crowd filled the street in front Of
the entrance. Tho already exhaust
| cd police, streaming with pcBpiration
and weak with thirst and hunger, could
scarcely make their way for the arrival Of
improvised ambulances which were or
every style, and had been pressed in for
! nibasses and market wagons werc used,
and came In rapid succession freightcd
with dead or wounded victims. +
., .l. att CONFUSION III
naturally reigned sverywhcre, anil the sad
task Of bsaring the helpless into the station,
| IL hurridly was tenderly pefomed.
| Many Of the deud are yet unidentified,
| and the names Of the wounded, in some
| cases, were given almost inarticulately and
OF course incorrectly. .".
The cells in the basement were crowded
ARRESTED RIOTERS.
Intervening corridors were filed with
deAd who lay in all sorts Of positions upon
the cold, hard flag stones. The
most reliable estimate, gives the
number Of rioters killed during the day,
in the vicinity Of one hundred.
sa0vss one hundred and afy severely
wounded are in the hospitals. ''aI
When it 10 taken into consideration
that those helplessly wounded and conse-
| quently taken TO the hospitals are there,
those slightly wounded slipping away and
hiding themselves lest it should becemc
known that they had taken part in the
riot, some approximate idea OF the number
OF wounded may be had. Certainly three
hundred is not too high an estimate.
VI course, many were killed and wound
cd who were merely spectators and inno-
cent OF having any hand In the disturb.
| ances.
In the marrow, open space between me
Morgue and Twenty-sixth street
in East river, and Just inside the
lower Bellevue hospital gate, on Twen-
\ ty-sixth street, there were twenty-seven
cofiins, side by side, at twelve o'clock last
night and each coffin contained victim
Of the riot.
Another coffin, with corpse in it, was
on the floor inside of the morgue, and two
moro bodies, yet uncofHned, wore lying on
tho slabs. 80
The morgue was purposely kept dark,
because, at even that late hour, there was
Q largo crowd ontside Of the hospital walls
eagerly demanding admittance TO search
for their missing friends and relatives.
No one was admitted.
Early this morning the lower gate Of
Bellevue hospital, on Twcnty-sixth street,
will be opened TO permit the public gem
orally, 10 view the corpses.
The number Of wounded in Bellevue
hospital At midnight, was 81, most of the
wounds being severe. There are 80 wound.
! cd at Mount Senai hospital All the hospi-
tails contain +. .p4ra pr%0s, snG Of wSSnded' s,Sr
in Twenty-eighth street and the dismissal
of the procession, comparative quie,
rejgned.
Superintendent Kelso said all was over
for the present, but yet it was not deemed
prudent 10 dispense with single safe
guard; and not man was relieved from
duty.
The police certainly behaved nobly
| throughout the day. ....
| y ~ SUPERINTENDENT KELsD .
earned the thanks of all good citizens by
his ever-faithful, intelligent discharge of
his duty. He was ever alert, clear -lie AIDED
greeting tho Ribbonmen as numbering
wretches, going himself to the front of the
| fight. u
In Prince street, he fully redeemed him.
self long before the tronbio- .r .nu uay
woro over, and no chief was ever more
| ably and zcalously served than he.
The police headquarters at . O clock this
am. looked like an extensive bivouac. In
the superintendent Office lay the chiei
asleep; in the outer office were several
captains asleep on the floor; in the inspec.
tors Office, were the inspector Dilks and
a number of national guards officers in
various attitudes were soundly sleeping
4 elsewhere. yyuIyIttl
'''i'' GOV. HOFFMAN,
yesterday made the following statement to
a reporter: I. ...
became thoroughly satisfied that il
was necessary not only tor the present but
for the future, that, whatever lawless men
there was in the city of Newly erk, they
could be made TO understand at once and
| finally that there W, force enough in the
city, military and civil to assert the
power of the authorities of the law, and
preserve peace and order and to protect
the lives and property of people. de-
termined heretofore to issue a proclsma-
ton at once, that professions or a,sembl-
ages for any lawful purpose should be per-
mitted and would be protected TO tho full
extent Of the law, as far as the civil and