New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1871-07-18
The New York NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
3 Incideuts.

) Incidents.
The special correspondent of the st
Louis Republican, telegraphs:
New YORK, July l3.-The morgue wal
the scene to-day of many narrowing anC
heart breaking Incidents. Here had beer
conveyed the unrecognized and unclaimed
bodies of those who had met death during
the excitement of Wednesday, which will
long be remembered with sad regret by all
New Workers.. The corpses, thirty-two in
number, three of them being those who had
died from wounds since their admittance to
the hospital, and one, that of a man killed
by sunstroke, were arranged in rows in the
immediate back yard of the morgue with
the lids of the red-stained pine collins re
moved, exposing to view the faces of the
dead, that they might be recognized by
friends At early dawn Twenty-sixth
street began to be filled with people, men,
women and children thrOng1ng the side
walks and the middle of the street, many OF
them having stood there the entire night,
and at five o'clock there was scarcely an
unoccupied foot of space from the river way
back to the avenue. At six o'clock the doors
were flung open and that great crowd surged
in and filed rapidly past the rows OF cof-
fins, men muttering, women moaning, and
children CRYING. To all had come calmer
feeling than that which animated them the
day previous. Many confident others fear
ing that in the face of one of the dead would
be recognized the lineameHts of the loved
husband or father, or of that missing son
or brother. Some passed by the collins
with halfaverted gaze. Others poured sadly
in and shook their heads as they saw the
dead, disfgured features of stranger,
passing in to the next, and to the next, until
at last wall of anguish would tell that
their worst fears were realized. A mother,
in passing the further end of the line, saw
lying in there the boy that she loved, with
a CHASTITY hole in the side of the head,
through which the blood was oozing, while
the entire side Ofthe scalp was covered with
the sanguine fluid that had flown front the
wound, and mingling with the hair had
been dried into mat, repulsive to all eyes
but those of a mother.
Other scenes there were of a similar
nature and equally touching in their de-
tails. A sickening stencil pervaded the
atmosphere, and many who sought admit
lance were forced to retire or were carried
out in a fainting condition. AT noon but |
nine bodies remained unrecognized, and two |
hours later there were but six unknown dead. |
The scene of carnage was visited by thou |
sands of people to-day. The whole of the |
block between Twenty-ffth and Twenty
sixth streets is riddled with minnie balls.
The houses all show marks of the deadly |
fire, and shutters and windows are in a |
condition. The armories through
out the city remain guarded, and will be so
for some time to come. A detachment of
all the regiments are on duty. The city is
quiet Notwithstanding an exciting meeting
of the Irish brigade held TO day, when Gov
ernor Hoffman was severely denounced.
The list of casualties now foots up fifty
six killed and $50 wounded This, how
ever, is not official. The members of the
guard killed during the riot will
be buried on Saturday
The majority of the Sixty-ninth regiment
were locked up in their armory all day A
small detachment was sent out but their
behavior was very bad, and they affiliated
with the rioters. As soon as this became
known the doors of the armory were locked
and barred.
A majority of the crowd that followed the
procession evidently had no idea how
many had been killed and wounded at
rwenty-fourth street, nor is it believed
hey would have stopped and demonstrated
here as'the facts were developed.