Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-14
After the Riot.

All Is quiet this morning.
ne most deliberate estimates gives the
NUMBER OF rioters killed during the dav in
the vicinity on one hundred Over one hun
dred and fifty severely wounded are in the
hospitals. When it is taken into considera-
ton that only those helplessly wounded and
consequently taken to the hospital. there arc
those slightly wounded slipping awav and
hiding themselves less it should become
known they had taken part in the riot, some
approximate idea of the number wounded.
may be had. Certainly three hundred is not
too high an estimate. Of course many were
killed and wounded who were merely spec
tators, and innocent of any hand in the dis
turbances.
The police headquarters at o'clock Thurs
day morning looked like an extensive biv-
ouac. In the superintendent office lay the
chief sound asleep; in the outer Office were
several captains asleep; on the floor in the
Inspectors office were Inspector Dilks and a
number of the national guard soundly sleep
ing; elsewhere through the building were the
same scenes. All concerned were complete
ly tired out with the days work..
All last evening 9Th avenue in the neigh
borhood of the riot was filled with an excit-
ing crowd, to whom one must do the Justice
to say that even at their worst, they thought
merely the men who had been killed were I'M
fortunate.
The doors and windows, riddled and shat
tered with bullets, men pointed at and curl
ously examined. The cellars, down which
men had fallen, and where they had died, had
to be barricaded, so intense was the anxiety
to see them But short distance from here
is the 10th police precinct station house, and
around 1t gathered crowd, wondering if
again could be seen what had appeared in
the latter part of the afternoon, the coming
up of wagon from the commission of Char
ltles and Correction, and full of red pine
collins, in which the dead were to be buried.
Men and women sought also the doors of
Mount Sinai hospital, where the wounded
and dying lay, idly wondering who was in, or
trembling lest some of them should be their
relatives or friends. Yet the doors of both
were closed and the policemen vigorously and
uncompromisingly neither would admit nor
give hope or dispair to any.
In the narrow, open space between the
morgue OF 26th street and the East river, and
just inside of the lower Bellevue hospital
gate on 26th street, there were twenty-seven
collins side by side at IL O'Clock Wednesday
night, each containing q victim of the riot.
Another coffin with corpse in it was on the
floor inside the morgue, and two more bodies
were yet unconfned lying on Stats.
The morgue was purposely kept dark, be-
cause even at that late hour there was a large
crowd outside of the hospital walls, eagerly
demanding admittance to search for their
missing friends or relatives, bat no one was
admitted.
Early Thursday morning the lower gate of
Bellevue on 26th street, will be opened to
permit the public generally to view the
corpses. The number of wounded in Bellevue
at midnight was 81.
The majority of the Goth regiment were
locked up in their armory all day. A small
detachment that went out behaved very badly
and oficiated with the rioters. As soon as
this became known the doors of the armory
were locked and barred.