The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-13
AT THE NEWSPAPER OFFICES.

| Crowds of News Scekcrs-Bcautiful Bulletins.
| Never before was the power aud influence OF the
| press shown to greater extent than on this
memorable occasion. From an early hour, in the
| sweerng heat, crowds of excited peOple-men
| women and childreA-were assembled around every
newspaper Office from Printing House square down
to the corner of Broadway and Ann street. AS the
day advanced the heat became still more ntoerable
ana the crowds denser and more excited
THE BULLETIN BOARDS
of the various evening papers and some OF the big
morning dailies that INDUCED for the first time in
naming extras presented many curious features to
the observing passerby. First encountered an
Sfllce near where the Fourth avenue cars turn or
into Centre sti eet opposite the Cy Hail. outside OF
which establishment hundreds or street Arabs were
making the welkIn ring with shouts OF 'an0tner ex-
tra." On the bulletin board was The cheering an
nouncement.
"ORANGE PARADE!-KERRIGAN DEPosEDi--ALL LIQUOR
STORES IN JERSEY CLOSED ATTACK ON A LODGE =
BLOOD II ~
lew doors below horrihed crowd read:-
'FIFTY-rwO PERSONS KILLED IN TwENrYFoURrH
STREET AND A WOMAN AND CHILD sLAUGH-
TERED ~
Taking a particular interest IN the fate OF the wo-
man and Child for the HERALD reporter naturally
thought that the figures placed before the word
'persOns' might have had their origin in the heated
Imagination Of the editor he looked ut the next
bulletin board for the woman and child Here he was
informed :hat the woman only wounded and
the child, now multiplied fouriOld, was killed. A
short distance further people positively assured
OF The death OF three women and the miraculous
escape OF the chlid. La auultion the ntei-
llgence:-
SEVERAL OF FISK'S REGIMENT KILLED-OTHER
WITNESSES REPORT THAT THE MOB FIRED UPON
hind LAMPPOSTs BEFORE THE MILITARY DIS
CHARGED GUN !-rwO OF FIsK's REGIMENT
f-CO
Next door TO this veraclous Office the passer-by
was astonlshed to ind that
TIRE TWENTY. SECOND FIRED ON THE MOB AND
THEN RAN ~
On Park row evening paper indulged in the
following bloOd-curdnng POSTER
"ANoTHER HORROR STREETS RUNNING IN BLOOD J.
SEVERAL WOMEN KILLED ~
The result Of the calculations of the casualties or
the day, before dark, based on the announcements
Oh the bulletin boards OF the various journalistic
mnnOws was US fOllOWs: 467 persons killed, several
women and u family OF children slaughtered and
several wounded. we base this ON the fact that
eacn paper had its list OF Killed and wounded exclu-
sve. and according to It's own statement 1t was ut
terly Impossible for any OF Its contemporaries
know anything about SAID last.
The crowd around some Of the smaller Offices was
not calculated to inspire confidence In the mud OF
q stranger unaccustOmed TO metropolitan under
ground population. AT the corner Of Frankfort
street, about six O'Clock T.. NJ, an A. .. H., who
would make q success on the stage III his "make
upn as
BILL SYKES,
volunteered the Information, II can take and chew
YOU'RE anOtner," which were waited 10 his
from some other gentleman IN the throng, mad the
effect OF rouslng him 10 the highest pitch Of 'pari-
Otic'' iervOr. TINS was only aayed by the conf
blned efforts Of several Of his friends OF the
AKTFuL DODGER
stripe, and an earnest appeal to swallow more bad
rum. AS he was borne on ia triumph by his adj
miring friends companot win a black pipe in
his mouth, sententiousiy remarked, the devil
HE'S rBRUE 70 THE BACKBONE"
From the fragments of conversation among the
crowd at many or the Offices We could form the