Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-07-22

man, and girt all around with a wall O
| protection, still filed around the Worth
monument, and marched down to the
Cooper Institute, where it was disbanded
| Returning over the scene of the battle
every shop was found to be closed, and the
few people who venturcd out to see if il
were possible TO recognize the dead, OF
give the wounded assistance, were talking
of the humanity of certain druggists, who
would not so much as give shelter to shot
and rent applicants, and it was alleged
that the first act of violence had been com
mitted at Eighth avenue and Twenty
eighth street, where. ccrtifl rufiians at
tempted to beat an Orangeman to death,
but were clubbed by the police, into whose
faces one of them fired pistol deliberate
ly. g.,
AT BELLEvrE 1i0srirAL.
The streets in the ncighborhood of First
avenue and Twenty-siXth street were filled
with men, women and children, many Of
them d;hpelled by curiosity, but by far n
larger number desirous of discovering if
any of .heir friends or relatives were among
the list Of killed and wounded. AS the
ambulance wagons passed in the gate of
Bellevue Hospital the crowd indulsed in
loud murmurs, some in pity for the suffer-
~,
not few in condemnation of the acts OF
the sufferers. Ever and anon would some
one put his or her face to the gate and in
quire if father or son or husband or
brother had been brought in. The wound
ed were examined by the physicians in at
tendance rs they were taken from the am
bulancc, their wouuds dressed aud them
selves placed in the different wards. Thirty
one was the entire number of the wounded
brought in last night, and of these it Is
thought that at least fifteen are fatally in
jared, and will die in the couse of the week.
The wounds are almost all in the face, head
and shoulders.
OF the dead bodies brought in, which
amounted TO forty altogether from the va
rious police precincts, none were identified,
nor were any persons allowed to, see them
last night. They will be washed and laid
out AT the Morguc tomorrow, when free
admission will be giYen to persons desiring
to ascertain if their friends are among the
victims Of the riot.
The result Of the shooting was that
seven dead bodies lay in Twenty-tourth
street on the sidewalk, two of them being
women. Seven wounded were taken into
DR.. Andrus' drug store, 21S Eighth avenue,
where three of them subsequently died, one
VI Nlibhl bll IL MI. l.lllliCI, Ol ~ l'Cilil
street, Brooklyn, was known. Thomas
Spring, a,cd seventeen, was shot dead near
his mothers confectionery store, 2S2
Eighth auenuc, and near him little girl
was mortally wounded. Thirty wounded F.
were taken to Mount Sinai hospital in
Twenty-cighth street, where three Of them
died thirteen dead bodies
were removed to the Sixteenth precinct
station. one being q woman, anothcr girl,
and another a, boy of sixteen. The rest
were adults. Four wounded were also
taken there, but they were afterwards seut
to Bellevue. A Mr.. Ackcrman, aged sew
cnty, who had gone onC op.the awning of
the store, on the corner of Twenty .
street, to witness the procession, vas shot
dead, and two others, mortallv wounded,
were taken TO private house in Twenty
eighth street.
Nearly all Of those dead in the Twentieth
street station were shot through the head
or heart The woman had three bullets
fired at her, two of which broke her hands,
and the third through her head, literally
blowing her brains out. The little girl was
also shot through the head. Captain NJ
Dermutt notified all liquor dealers in his
precinct to close their stores until this
and the order was pretty generalr
ly obeycd. About thirty wounded were
taken to the Twcnty-nnth precinct station. /
The total number of dead, as near us could
be gathered, is forty, and Of wounded,
eighty,