Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1871-07-18


was blood spattered over the base-
ment floor Of No. 260. A sickening
sight was presented in the gutter ct
the northeast corner of 9Th Avenue
and Oath street. Here were pools of
blood and piece of some part of
the head of some one who had been
mortally wounded. A large crowd
fingered looking at this until it was
dark.
AGITATION CAUSED BY THE MOB.
Soon after the fighting began the
news of the bloody massacre flew like
wildfre all over the city. Every
home that had sent forth a represent
alive defender Of the peace was rack
ed with agitation. Throngs OF dis
tracted women hurried to the police
stations and hospitals, eager to know
the names of the killed and wounded.
When recognition took place, the ex-
hibition ofsympathy and grief was
heart-rending to behold.
A CHASTITY SPECTACLE.
At the 10th precinct station, in
West Twentieth street, was a CHASTITY
spectacle. A vast crowd filled the
street in front of the entrance. The
already exhausted police, could hard.
ly make way for the arrival of the
improvised ambulances, which were
Of every style, pressed in for the
dreadful service. Omnibuses and
market wagons, bakers and grocers'
carts, were used, and came in rapid
succession, freighted with dead and
wounded. Confusion naturally reign
ed everywhere, and the sad task OF
bearing the wounded forms into the
station, if hurriedly, was tenderly
performed. Many dead are yet un-
identified, and the names of the
wounded were given almost inarticu
lately, and of course incorrectly.
The cells in the basement were
crowded with arrested rioters. The
intervening corridor was fllcd with
dead, who lay in all sorts of positions
on the flagstones.
ONE HUNDRED RIOTERS KILLED.
The most deliberate estimate gives
the number of rioters killed during
the day, in the vicinity of one hun
dred. Over one hundred and fifty
severely wounded are in the hospital
When 1t is taken into consideration
that only those helplessly wounded
are in the hospitals, some approxim
ate idea Of the number may be had
Certainly 300 is not too high an est
mate. Many Of tho slain were limo
cent spectators.
TwENTY-sEvEN CoFFINs SIDE BY sIDF
La the narrow open space, between
the morgue and Twenty-siyth street
on East River street, and just insid,
of the lower Bellevue Hospital gate
there were twenty-seven coffins sid,
by side, at II o'clock last night
Each coffin contained victim of tn,
riot. Another coffin, with corpse il
it, was on the floor, inside the NOR
que, and two more bodies were re
uncotfined, lying on the slabs TIL
morgue was kept dark, for even a
that late hour there was large crow,
outside of the hospital walls, eager
| ly demanding admittance to searcl
for missing friends or relatives.
Early this morning the lower gat
of Bellevue, on Twenty sixth street
will be opened, to permit the publ,
genrally to view the corpses.
The number of wounded in Belle
vue at midnight was thirty one
Most of the wounds are serious.
Thirty wounded are at Mount ST
mai Hospital.
All the hospitals contain a number
of wounded.
The police certainly behaved no
bly, throughout the day.
NOT AN oRANGEMAN INJURED.
The Orangemen were so completely
protected by the proclamation o
Governor Hoffman, and by the fear
lessness of the civil and military au-
thorities on duty, in executing the
Governors will, that not man Of
them was Injured
THE TRIBUNE'S LIST OF POLITICAL DEAL
MEN.
The Tribune says editorially, under
the head Of the killed and wounded
"The mournful lists of yesterday
casualties are elsewhere printed; but
the chief and most culpable victims
are not there mentioned. Put dowr
among the killed, Mayor A Oakley
Hall set down as dangererous, if no
fatally wounded. Gov. John T. Hoff
man, The deadest man in tn,
morgue, borne tkither by the police
last night, is not so dead as the mar
who undertook to silence the police
and give rioters full sway. Tn,
worst wounded in the hospital is no
so badly wounded as the Governor o
New York, who has not yet proved
ignorance on Monday of his surrend Ell
to the mob, consummated on Monday
night by his political associates anC
subordinates, which he could have
neutralized and did not. Add to the
list the one man promoted for bis
share in this business. His name il
Theodore F. Randolph, Governor oil
N. and above all give honor tc
the people of New York, who rose
for their right as they have not riser
since Sumter.