The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1871-07-13

had come. and at once got into close column. WITH
view Of making charge upon the crowd that
pany OF the Seventh regiment had by this time
reached Twenty-sxth street. and 1t was just at this
point that the rioters made up their minds not to wait
THE ONSLAUGHT OF THE POLICE,
but to make charge themselves, and they did so.
the i hard iD WORK Tor the bne coats They met The
shock not by patiently waiting until the crowd had
gained loosaold IN the =, street rect but dashed
came at the curb, and for minute so the
lighting was desperate. Several OF the mounted
police rode up and joined in the fray, and boldly
rode their horses ON the gaop on TO the sidewalks,
cutting down every man they could reach. regard
less whether ne was resg Or cro nU b Su1s
way. AT this moment bricks, cobble stones
and all sorts OF missiles began 10 shower Gown
from the house ON the northeast corner OF twenty
fourth street, and from some of the adjoining
houses. This was followed by shot, which was
ment house the corner. II was evidently intended
fer the Marshal OF the Orangemen VINO was at the
mark and struck one OF the members OF the Eighty
fourth regiment, who was in the front rank OF the
leading company OF his command. Some one az
once cried out, mr., ,u. nowsw
and in another second voice gave the command,
"Flrer' The Eighty fourth 0peyed the ORDER one
vOlIey went crashing against the windows OF tho
houses from which the sn0t had been nred, ana
another aimed higher TOOK eect UPON tne soo,
throwing stones and bricks down upon the troops.
The rioters in the street, While TINS was gong on
don OF police which surrounded the regiments anu
the orangemen' but another mother cry OF
settled the fate OF many who We're probably unable
to get out OF the crowd and VINO had ne
isis for the detail OF the ninth, two companies
OF the seventh and one OF the Eightyfourth almost
simultaneously Lea. delivered CRUSHING fire straig l
scene tnat ensued was positively terrible. panic
sezed upon the crowd ana rush was made for
in the crush that followed huddied
together in groups, each endeavorlng TO get
tardng the others progress. until, pushed and
tumbled forward by those behind, they were pitched
headiong into the gutter or Tell TO be tramped upon
by the mad, terror-stricxen hundreds who rushed
along from every side and pulled them down 70 get
THE SCENE OF CARNAGE.
The scene was rendered all the more terrible by
the mounted police, who at this point took advan.
tage OF the panic. and, daShing down the streets
ahead OF the procession, rode rough shod into every
crowd they met on the corners. Twenty.thrd street
crowds which had been dispersed by tho
mounted police anu the crowds which had escaped
the onslaught of the troops on the avenue got mixed
up and again there ensued race for hfe everybody
trying TO ourun hs neghbor and get as fast and al
Lar rom tne avenue az ms iees could TAKE nim;
congregated on the stoops in Twenty-thtrd street,
and who had only been able to hear the firing OF the
troops, without knowing what It's effect had been,
took the infection and rushed, pelmcll, along with
the Others. In fact, panic seized upon everybody,
and everybody ran as though an entire regiment
was charging at his heels. Meanwhile the scene on
the avenue, TwentyfOurth street, had revealed
Its full horrors, now that the crowd mad given way
and left the block clear near where the Eighty
fourth had stoou during the firing. The sidewalks
were literally
SrREwN WITH THE DEAD,
the wounded and the dying. In one spot near the
corner Of Twenty-fourth street, five men lay to-
gether In heap dead and few feet from them
respectfully dressed man, who had evidently been
shot while trying get out or the crowd the bullet
which pierced his brain having entered the back OF
the head. On the Oher side or the way boy about
eighteen lay writing IN pain from wound
OF o shot which had struck him just behind
the left ear The most pltul sight was the body OF
pretty little girl, about five years OF age, VINO lay
face downward with an ugly wound back OF the
head, from which the blood was Moving profusely.
woman lay 10 the left OF her also dead, aud close
to her man, who had apparently been shot while
IN the act Of getting out OF the gutter, into which
he had fallen during the -. firing, a.
he lay with his face on the sidewalk
and his knees In the gutter In TACT the scene
a sicKenng one. Thafe was blood everywhere on
the sidewalks, on doorsteps IN the Streets and in
some pac 1t trckled down the curbstOnes rtvu-
let's. Alter the troops mad gone away ana citizens
police began the sad task OF taking the dead
and carrying the wounded to the nearest
drug store or Doctors the scene was
rendered all the more terrible by the
moaning and grooming OF the wounded and the
shrieks Of the women, whose near and dear ones
had been found among the dead and the dying.
Certainly those who live in the vicinity, and who
witnessed the carnage Will never forget the sight as
lOug as they live.