Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-15
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Daily Kennebec Journal.
From New York.

| New York, IA. There is little additional
! to the late riot were it not for the wounded in
the hospitals, and the delapidated condition
of store windows at the locality where the
disturbances took place, we should have little
evidence of the terrible scenes through which
the city have passed. large number of
wounded have been removed from the public
hospitals to their homes. Cases which re-
main under the care of the hospital surgeons
are those which are to serious to bear re-
moyal, and persons who have no homes or
unable to pay for medical aid.
Coroners Young and Harrison have made
a list of the dead bodies at the morgue, and
will commence holding inquests on Tuesday
next. Six more wounded men died to-day,
making fifty-five in all. The wounded re-
ported number l07 Most of the dead bodies
! at the morgue have been identified, and
others are so rapidly decomposing that should
they not be identified to-day it will be too
late. Recorder Hacked in the court of gen
eral sessions to-day, liberated Francis keil
one of the rioters, on a $1,000 bail. Peter
McCaffrey of Conn, who was visiting his
| sons in this city, was shot during the riot on
Wednesday in two places, one ball passed en-
tirely through his groin and another through
his right arm Trouble is apprehended on
Sunday at the funeral of the soldiers killed
in the riot. 1t is reported that the regiments
joining the procession have been ordered to
load with ball A funeral of eight of the
rioters will be held on the same day. Police
man Grady, who was disgraced and dismissed
from service Wednesday for cowardice, pub
fishes a card this evening that he was disgust
ed with the brutal conduct of the police, and
took off his own shield and resigned. Flu
nerals of a number of rioters took place to-
day 1t is the opinion of the authorities that
the number of wounded who have been cared
for by friends, is greater than the number al
ready reported. Three more rioters were
committed to prison this forenoon to await
action of the grand jury.
The Post this evening in abiding to the
| contradictory reports concerning Col. Fiske 5
movements on Wednesday says ''Col. Fiske
was at the armory of the 9th regiment
most of the forenoon, that at the request of Gov.
Hoffman he went to stop Jersey Ferry
returning about two p. NJ. Col. Fiske was
marching at the head of his regiment in his
shirt sleeves, fourishing large sabre, when
the first crackle of musketry was heard.
simultaneously with that volley there SEEM
ed to come whole shower of stones and
| bricks at the 9Th reg iment, and many of the
men declared that rifle shots were fired at
| them from windows and roofs. AT any rate
| Pierce, private in company A, is now lying
almost dead in house near the scene of fire.
He had his leg completely shattered by ball
which must have been fired almost straight
down, as it entered just below the knee
and passed through in line towards the
foot AS the fire ran up the line of the s4tl
regiment towards the line of the 9th. the 9th
wheeled and Col. Fiske and officers stood to
the right, for the first company had knelt
ready to fire. They discharged their pieces
without receiving any orders, and the %
company followed their example. The mol
surrounded Col. Fiske, and as he raised hi,
sabre they fell upon him, and few minutes
afterwards he was picked up in the gutter
with his right ankle disocated He was car
ried into a banking house, and attended by
surgeons Pollard and Thompson. At first il
was thought that he was struck by a spent
ball. An hour later he was removed in dis
guise by the rear, where close coach wa:
waiting on another street to remove him tC
the dock, where he took a boat for Sandy
Hook In fact Col Fiske SCENE to have
acted with bravery, and only relinquished hi.
command when overpowered and disabled.