Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1871-07-20

A rifle WOHnd IN her forehead her LIE
blood was slowly oozing. OF the wound.
ed men, two had been struck in the legs
and another had his arms badly shattered
while one man was vainly trying to raise
himself from the ground, whose whole
face was covered with blood. while from a
ghastly wound in his head his brain was
protrudirg.
The sidewalk was drenched with blood
and the window panes of the stores on
either cerner, the shutters of which had
not been put up, were shattered by the
bullets. As soon as it was safe do 20, a
surgeon connected with one of the regi.
ments came to where the bodies lay, and
after giving them a cursory examination,
ordered the men employed in an adjoin-
ing store to place them in a cart, which
was standing near, so that they might be
taken away. But before this could be
carried out the police seized the cart for
one Of their number that had been wound
ed, and the m ,rch having been resumed
the surgeon WAS obliged to leave thu dead
and wounded as they were aud join his
regiment. 1t was the same all along
Eight avenue, and the dead bodies left
soon as the soldiers had quilted the sven.
ne on their march mp Twenty-third street
the crowd, which had been restrained by
their presence. came from the side streets
in swarms The large majority of them
were women and children, as the men
had followed the procession. Loud were
the denuuci4tions and threats of ven
geance which they cast at the retreatinQ
forms of the soldiers, but the sharpness
of the execution seemed to have produced
the desired effect. for their violence was
confined to merely vocal demonstrations.
TIE DEAD AND WOUNDED.
%The record of the wounded, dead and
dying would fill book with chapters of
appalling horrors. language cannot
describe, nor could pencil or
brush we'll picture TIE thrilling scenes
aud inci1 ents. The humane and kind
hearted lookrrs-ou must have had their
souls wruug with anguish and their
thoughts 81 ething with Indignation. Sons,
husbands fathers, wives, sweethearts and
children alike were the victims of the
rrmorsaless hate and unreasonable bigotry
of the mob, Strong men looked on aghast
with horror Women wept and children
moAued at the spectacle. 1t was pan
Drama If blood, vista of gore, an arena
Of agony. But the mere spectators could
not feel what thousands of others did,
whose friends or relatives were In the
public service. The news of the bloody
flew like wild-fre all over the
city. Every home that had sent forth n
representative defender Of the peace was
rocked with agitation.
Throngs of almost distracted women
hurried to the police station-houses and
hospitalz, hoping. shrinking, fearing and
eager to know the names of the killed
aud wounded. When recognitions took
pl .ce the sympathy and grief was heart
ren3iug to witness. 1t is simply impossi-
ble to give any full aud correct idea OF
the occasion.
At the Sixteenth Precinct Statiun in
West Twentieth street, was gha-tly
spectacle. a vast crowd filled the street
in front of the entrance. The already ex-
hausted police, streaming with perspiva-
ton, and weak with thirst and hunger,
could scarcely make way for the arrival
of improvised ambulauces, which were of
every style. pressed in for the dreadful
duty. Bakers, grocers' and market way
ons were used, and came i'll rapid success
sion, freight,d d with the dead and wound
ed victims Confusion naturally reigued
every here, and the tusk of bearing the
se pless forms into the station, if hur-
riedly, was tenderly performed. Many
of the dead are yet unidentified, and the
names of the wounded in some cases were
given almost inarticulately, and of course
incorrectly.
The cells in the basement were crowded
with the arrested rioters. The interven-
ing corridor was filled with the dead
who lay in all sorts of positions upon the
cold, hard f4gstones.
A HORRIBLE MIDNIGHT SCENE.
In the narrow open space between the
Morgue and Twenty sixth street and the
East River, and Just inside of the lower
Bellevue Hospital gate on Twenty-sixth
street, there were twenty-seVen coffius
side by side at II o'clock last night. Each
coffin contaiAed a victim of the riot. An
other coffin with corpse in it WAS on the
floor inside the Morgue, and two more
bodies were yet uncoffined, lying on the
slabs. The Morgue was purposely kept
dark, because even at that late hour there
was a large crowd outside of the hospital
walls, eagerly demanding admittance to
search for their missing friends and rela-
tives. One elderly woman was weeping
bitterly. No one was admitted. Early
this morning the lower gate of Bellevue
was opened to permit the public gener'
ally to view the cOrpses. Among these Ii
Charles Buckland, of No. 2O9 West
Twenty eight street, % years of age, mar
ried, and soap maker by occupation
The number of wounded in Bellevue al
midnight was thirty.one. The most Of
the wounds were severe.
CLOSING SCENES. ....
At / o'clock this morning the city was
normally quiet. Not a disturbance nor a
rumor of disturbance could be heard o1
anywhere The various detachments OF
police were gradually returned to their
precincts, and by o'clock only a small
force remained. 1t was universally be-
lieved that the latest and meanest exhi.
bition of Catholic bigotry was over. Po.
lice Headquarters at that ghostly hour
was literally banquet hall deserted. The
Commissioners, Mayor Hall, latter mid
day and hid away in back room on the
second foor,) Gov. Hoffman, and Gen
Shaler and his staff, Superintendent Kelsc
and his Inspectors bad eaten. and drank
in the building, and there were remain!
of feasts everywhere. 1t will be many al
hour before the vast ediice will be as
cleanly as it was even with the renova'
ton directed by the energy of sergt
Webb.
NUMBER OF KILLED.
The most deliberate estimate gives th'
number of rioters killed during the da,
as in the vicinity of one hundred.
NUMBER OF WOUNDED.
Over 150 very severely wounded
are in the hospitals. When it is takel
into consideration that only those hope
lessly wounded and consequently takei
to the hospitals, are there, those slightly