The Republican journal., 1871-07-20

below them two mon, one VI whom W Az |
attired elegantly. He was evidently a
man in good circumstances. but could
not tell ANYTHING about himself His Jaw
was shattered and his tongue torn out by
rifle ball Poor man! All that could
be learned of his probable identity was
obtained from card in his vest pocket
on which was engraved the name OF Will
liam j. Lattimer.
The full number Of the fallen it was
difficult to learn. for many were hastily
taken away by their relatives and friends
| in carts and wagons OF various kinds,
and others crawled into yards and cellars
to die unobserved, and away from the
heat of the sun. That there were not
less than sixty, however, is almost GER
| tain. At the corner of Twenty fifth street
the walk ran with blood. To pass, you
had to pick your way among the corpses.
In little alleys the bodies Of unfortunates
were found, and in shady places, wher
ever they were close at hand. There
was hardly house in the neighborhood
into which some manned victim had not
begged to be admitted, and on sheds and
cool flags in the rear, they lay begging
for surgical aid and removal to a hospital.
Among them were women and children,
A half-hour after the slaughter the
southeastern corner of Twenty-filth street
was still strewn with bodies The flies
had already settled upon their faces, but
some kind hand had driven them away
and covered the bloody heads About
the corpses stood a crowd that was as
large ut 5 O'clock as it had been at 3.
THE SCENE OF CARNAGE.
/ The scene was rendered all the more
terribly by the mounted police, who at
| this point took advantage of the panic,
and, dashing down the streets ahead of
the procession, rode rough-shop into every
crowd they met on the corners. Twenty
third street soon became n scene Of the
utmost confusion. The crowds which had
| been dispersed by the mounted police and
the crowds which had escaped the on
| slaught of the troops on the avenue got
mixed up, and again there ensued 4 race
for life, everybody trying 10 outrun his
neighbor and get as fast and as far from
the avenue as his legs could take him
The people, principally all women. who
had congregated on the stoopi in 23d
! street, and who had only Leen able to
hear the firing of the troops, without
| knowing what its effects had been, took
the infection, and rushed pell-mell, along
with the others. In fact, panic seized
upon everybody, and everybody ran as
| though an entire regiment was charging
at his heels. Meanwhile the scene on the
avenue near Twenty Fourth street had re-
vealed its full horrors, now that the crowd
had given way and left the block clear
near where the Eighty-toulth had stood
during the firing The sidewalks were
| literally
sTREWN WITH THE DEAD,
the wounded and the dying. In one spot
near the corner of Twenty fourth street
| five men lay together in a heap, dea !, and
a few feet from them a respectfully dressed
man, who had evidently been shot while
| trying to get out of the crowd, the bullet
| which pierced his brain having entered
| the back of The head On the other side
Of the way a boy about eighteen lay
writing in pain from a wound Of 4 shot
which had struck him Just behind the left
ear. The most pitiful sight was the body
OF pretty little girl, about five years OF
age, who lay face downward with an ugly
wound back of the head, from which the
blood was flowing protusely. A woman
lay to the left of her, also dead and close
| to her man who had apparently been
shot while in the act of getting out of the |
gutter, into which he had fallen during
the firing, as he lay with his face on the |
sidewalk and his knees in the gutter In |
fact the scene was sickening one There
was blood everywhere on the sidewalks, |
on doorsteps, in the streets, and in some |
places it trickled down the cllrbstones in |
revulets. After the troops had gone away !
and citizens and police began the sad task
of taking up the dead and carrying the |
wounded to the nearest drug store or
doctors, the scene was rendered all the
more terrible by the moaning and groan-
ing of the wounded and the shreks of the |
women whose near and dear ones had |
been found among the dead and the diving.
Certainly those who live in the vicinity,
and who witnessed the carnage, viii !
never forget the sight as long as they /
live.
THE NUMBER OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The Commercial Advertiser says the
number of persons killed and wounded
yesterday will never be known with ac-
curacy. To this day we do not know
how many fell victims to the draft riots of
1862. Only those who were unable to
get away We're left on the scene of the
conflict Many of the latter were stealth
y
their seclrsion carefully concealed We
can only Judge of the number wounded
from the proportion of severe cases such
as are found in the several hospitals. 1t
would not be at all surprising if the casu-
alites OF yesterday all told footed up 800
men. As to the character of the wounds
we hear it remarked on the authority of
the physician who was in attendance up
on the sufferers last night, that nearly all
caused by the bullets are below the abdo-
men. 1t is well known that the military
were repeatedly cautioned to fire low,
that there should be no unnecessary sac
ritce of life. The GOODNESS of the men
in the ranks is proven by the delibera
tion of their aim. With random firing,
the number of casualties would have
been fearfully increased.
THE KILLING OF A WOMAN AND A LITTLE
The following is a correct account
of the killing of woman and little
girl supposed to have been Mrs York
and her daughter, as given by an eye
witness: 81 was standing looking at the
procession and crowd and there was a
great deal Of excitement Directly saw
a woman waving her handkerchief to
the Orangemen, and i thought she was
very imprudent, or had more courage
than women generally have. Just at
that moment, while she was in the act of
waving her handkerchief. burly rutiian
stepped up to her and, placing the muz
zle of his pistol to her car, fired, and she
fell dead. He then turned around, and,
deliberately cooking his pistol, fired a
bullet into the little girl, and she fell.
think the little girl must have been II
or Is years Of age"
COL. FISK WOUNDED.
The Post this evening in alluding to
contradictory reports concerning Col.
Fisk's movements Wednesday says
''Col. Fisk was at the armory of the 9th
regiment most of the forenoon that ut
the request of Gov. Hoffman he went to
stop the Jersey ferries. Returning about
2 p. M. Col. Fisk was marching at the
head of his regiment in his shirt sleeves,
HOuriShinO n LARGE sabre when thn first