Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1871-07-20
THENEw YORK RIOT.

The following is an account of the at
tack on the Orangemen in New York by
the Irish Catholics which occurred on the
18th inst
Just before the Orange procession for
med, three hundred Hibernians, all arm
ed, with loud cheers took possession of
Twenty-ninth street, Immediately oppo-
site the police, who stood quietly facing
for orders. When the orders came the
street was cleared in two minutes One
detachment marched quickly down TWEEN
ty-nluth street towards the Seventh ave-
nue.. the two others, one up and one down
| Eighth avenue. and the Hibernians dis
appeared. No shots were fired, but here
and there the dull crack of a locust club
showed that some unfortunate had found
| out the thickness of his skull.
The police seized 200 stand of arms at
the rooms Of Fenian Hall, at Nineteenth
and Twenty-first avenue, and brought
them to police headquarters. The mob
| did not wait to learn the business of the
police, but fed at their approach. The
police, backed by the Eighty-fourth Regi-
ment. made a raid on Hibernian hall.
The mob ran like sheep. a large mum
Der were arrested and locked up, revolv-
ers and pistols being found upon their per-
sons. The arms were removed by the
Eighty-fourth and taken to the central
office.
The police, to the number of 400 ar
rived at half past ten, under the lead of
Inspectors Jamison and Walking, and
were placed, one squad on thirticth street
and Eighth avenue another on Twenty
| eighth street, and a small squad on Twen-
ty-ninth street, about half way down the
block on both sides of the avenue to pre-
vent any not members of the Orange Fra
t~ernity from entering the lines. Several
persons representing themselves as Or
angemen were allowed to pass through,
but being rather suspicious-looking, were
searched by the police, and on about
twenty were found revolvers and pistols
of all kinds, with clubs and old rusty
swords From one man was taken a sew
en-shooter loaded, a box of cartridges and
a roll containing the names CO 100 volun-
teers who had got ready to do duty
Every few minutes arrests were made
and in almost every case firearms were ia
ken from the prisoners.
Colonel Fisk was at the head of his
Fifteenth Regiment and was wounded
early in the ARRAY, under the following
circumstances:
The Colonel was with his regiment dur
ing the morning. About 1 o'clock he
went to see Governor Hoffman about the
running of the Pavonia ferry boat. He
returned about 2 80 o'clock and took
command of his regiment. When the
collision at Twcnty-fourth street took
place, and while he was in the act of Civ
ing an order, he was struck with a club,
and one of his ankles broken. He was at
once removed to a private residence in
Twenty-ffth street. His wound, though
it disables him, is not dangerous. The
locality of the house to which Colonel
Fisk was taken is kept a secret as the mob
threaten TO take the life of any member of
the Ninth, and especially that of Fisk
The Hibernians swear they will have ven
gence for the men of their order who were
killed.
THE TR1BUNE's STATEMENT.
"When the Orangemen were opposite
Twenty-fourth street, the column halted
for a moment. Immediately after the
halt a shot was fired from the upper story
of q brick building at the northeast cor
ner. simultaneously shots were fred at
the Sixth Regiment from near Twenty
fifth street on the same side of the street.
The Eighty-fourth Regiment received the
first shot, and in the confusion of the mo-
ment many men aimed at the windows, as
if expecting orders to fire. In an instant
one gun was discharged, and then follow
ed an irregular volley along the line of the
Sixth, Ninth and Eighty-fourth Regi-
ments, a few men loading and firing the
second time. So sudden was the occur
renee that the officers were taken by sur
prise, but as soon as possible they rushed
among their men to stop the firing. The
firing of the Eighth Regiment was chiefly
directed at the upper part of the house,
whence the attack had come, but the side
walk was swept also. AS soon as the
smoke cleared away, nine bodies, one of
them a woman, were seen lying extended
and still upon the pavement in front of the
house. The right wing of the regiment
being advanced about two hundred yards
beyond Twenty-fourth street, the men in
that part of the line fired across the side
walk at the southeast corner of that
street and avenue. Here were a group
of about twenty policemen and a few citi-
zens. All these discovering that the
troops were aiming low, threw themselves
by common impulse PROSTATE upon their
bellies and scrambled away. At the first
fire. however, q portly, well-developed
man, who was afterwards ascertained to be
r. c. T. Lattimer, was instantly killed,
and after him a policeman, John O'Con-
ner fell dangerously wounded.
The firing over, there was a pause of
several minutes. in which a further attack
of the Bibernians was awaited, while
troops were brought to an attention.
After reloading their guns, no more re-
gard was paid to the wounded and dying
for several minutes. The terrified citi-
zens were afraid to venture out of their
houses, and none of those escorting the
Orangemen could advance beyond the
lines to give relief, on account of the i'm
minent danger that other shots would be
fired by the treacherous and Infatuated
mob, and that the militia would renew
theirwild volleys. The situation at the
crossing of 24th street, where the writer
stood, was terrible. Before the eyes of
all, there lay eleven PROSTATE bodies
Two or three were piled together as they
had fallen. A dead woman was stretched
across a dead man. A man with a fearful
wound in the read which covered lis face
with blood, writhed in agony for some
moments and then slowly crept to a door