Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1871-07-22

"B' lilo stdJe OF aUdlrs may nc taken
as applying generally TO the whole city.
Grave apprehension existed of further
riots during the night, and all respecta.
BILE and pcaceably disposed citizens re.
mained at home. The streets in the
vicinity Of the Police Headquarters.
Mulberry street, however, were an OK.
ception TO the other streets. Knots of
twOs and tlrccs were to be seen here
and there discussing the newsa as it ar
rived from tune 70 time from various
districts, and Mulberry street itself was
a scene OF hustle and excitement, hun
dreds Of police occupying the block ad-
jacent to tue Central Office, and prevent.
ing ingress TO all except those having
the light to enter. ..
A visit was paid to the 9th regiment
armOry about 1890 o'clock last evening.
The regiment was supping and in readi-
ness to move at a moments warning.
AT ll:l0 o'clock two shots were fired IN
quick succession from the rear of houses
on the south side OF West Twenty
seventh street, the balls passing through
one OF the open window iuto the armory
and lodging 10 the ceiling. Both of
them passing in close proximity to the
heads oi Lieut.. Colonel Braine, Captain
Bacon, private Knowles and reporter
Three shots had been FL cd about an hour
! previous. These shots reused the BOYS.
who wanted to pour a yolley into the
house, but Lieut.. Colonel Rraine Buc-
ceeded in dissuading them. The repor-
ter left at III o'clock, the men swearing
that If the firing was repeated they
would clean the house out.
In the early part of the evening
large crowd stretched from Twenty
! fourth tn Twenty-ei9hth street, on the
east side OF Eighth avenue, gazing at
and into some of the houses which had
been struck by bullets, and where there
were other evidences Of the days san
/ culinary conflict. In oelllr-way lea J.
ing to bathing establishment, On south
east corner of Eighth avenue, and 25th
street, was pool OF blood. The build
ing was chipptd il several places above
the first story. In a corner, in an area
way, connected wit,f the same building,
was found another pool Of blood, and
blood was spattered on some boards and
othel stored In the area way OF the Utah
| House, northeast corner 6ti avenue aud
25th street.
Many Of the buildings which bear
! conspicuous evidence of having been
chipped by nusket balls are Oh 27th-st.
There was blood spattered over the base
ment floor of 28O-a sickenlng sight.
In the gutter at the northeast corner of
8th avenue and 24th street were pools
OF blood, and piece OF some part OF
the head of some one who had been
mortally wounded.
Soon alter the fighting began news OF
bloody massacre flew like wildfre air
over the city. Every house that had
sent forth representative defender OF
peace was lacked with an agitated throng
Distracted women hurried TO the police
stations and hospitals, eager to know
the names of the killed and wounded.
When recognition took place the exhibi-
ton of sympathy and grief was hear
rendering to witness. 1t is simply i'm
possible to give any tull aud connected
idea of affairs.
AT the Sixteenth Precinct station in
west goth street, was CHASTITY spectacle.
A vast crowd filled the street in front of
the entrance. The already exhausted
police streaming with Precipitation and
weak with thurst and hunger. could
scarcely make way for the arrival o. i'm
provised ambuances, which were OF
every style, pressed in for the dreadful
duy. Bakers, grocers', omnibus and
market wagons were used AMI arrived
in rapid succession, frcighted with dead
and wounded victims Confusion nat
urhiIy reigned everywhere, and the sad
tux o. bearing helpless forms into the
station, if ,hurriedly, was teuderlv per-
/ form d. Many of the dead are vet uni
| dentlfied and The names of the wounded
i'll some cases were given al most articu-
lately and of course Incorrectly. The
cells in the basement were crowded with
arrested rioters. The intervening corr-
dor was filled with dead who lay in all
sorts of positions upon the fiagstones.
The most reliable estimate gives the
number of rioters killed during the day
at about one hundred. Over one hun
dred and fifty of the severely wounded
are in hospitals. When it is taken into
consideration that on'y those helpleSsly
wounded were taken to the hospital,
and that the slightly wounded slipped
away and hid themselves lest it should
become known they had taxed part in
the riot, some approximate idea OF the
numbers of The wounded may be had.
Certainly three hundred is not too high
an estimate. OF course many were
killed and wounded who were merely
spectators and innocent of any hand in
the disturbance ...-...
In the interior of :he open space be-
tween the Morgue on Twenty-sixth
street and East River, and Just inside
the lower Bellevue Hospital gate on Goth
street, there were twenty-seven coffins
side by side at ~ O'clock last night.
Each coffin containing a victim of the
riot. Another coffin with corpse in it
was on the floor in the middle of the
Morgue, and two more bodies were vet
uncotfined lying on slabs. The Morgue
was purposely kept dark, because even
at that late Lour there was large
crowd outside the hospital walls eagerly
demanding admittance to search for their
friends and ralo,ivos No opa xuoo al