The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1871-07-23

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REGIMENTS FIRE UPON EACH OTHER.
At the same time the Eighty-fourth Regi
ment was firing In front Of the line th
Ninth and Sixth Regiments in the rear o
the Orangemen also began firing indiscrim
inately, sweeping Twenty fifth, Twenty
: sixth, Twenty-seventh and Twenty eigh
streets, the extreme rear Of the Ninth fir
ing few shots mp 9Th avenue into the pla
to0n Of policemen who were stationed q,
94th Regiments were tor q moment com.
pletely demoralized and broken. Their
firing was wild. They soon recovered
from their momentary panic, however; and
reforming, marched on again, leaving a
hundred or more dead and wounded men,
streets, from 25th to 26th streets, were in
stantly cleared of all but those unable to
fly, the rioters abandoned their friends
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THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
The following is q partial list of the
killed and wounded now at Sinia Hospital ::
James Lynch. through head, fatal Pat
rick Harvey, fractured arm, amputated :;
S 5%sl1a. GFa,ay wounded in thigh serious
both arms John O'Brion, shot in knee !;
John Ward, through bladder, probably
fatal; Jas. Sealt, in groin, fatal and un-
known man, through head, fatal; Peter
Dark, breast and arm; Fred Howard,
through head; Peter Sherry, through
Wis, dangerous; Patrick Reed, through
breat fatal VIM. Warner, light shoulder !;
Officer Nubey, slight face wound James
II. Clark, dead, shot in arm and groin Will
liam Chancey and Sergeant Wyatt, Of the
Ninth Regiment, killed Ellen CARR, shot
head; James Lemon, shoulder; Isaac
Hughes, left arm, severe Philip Fenden-
deck, through thigh Frank Hussey, club
bed Jas. Lynch, shot in head, fatal un-
known man, through head fatal.
The following officers were wounded ::
Ger O'Conner, left side, spent ball; officer
Burns severely injured, blow by stone !;
Officer II. Furbush, thrown from horse !;
James Martin, overcome by heat Christie
pher Constable, sun-stroke; Patrick Mirchi-
ult, shoulder broken by brick; Dennis
Michael Dougherty, scalp wounds; Michael
Bryant, gun shot wound in hand Patrick
Phillins, bayonet wound in hand
The following citizens are mentioned in
the list: Jonathan Guttman, right arm,
spent ball; Thomas Wallace scalp wound |;
Friedman, two severe scalp wounds; Chas.
Stockmap, James Mccormack aud Patrick
Kelley, all scalp wounds; Michael Dalin,
scalp wound; James Harvey, face and
hands; Charles Farrell, shot in foot; Patrick
Phillips, gunshot wound in leg; A. P. Gill
bert, type setter on the Herald, fatally shot
in spine; James Louvre, cheek torn away
by bullet; John O'Rourke, shot in leg.
The list Of killed ascertained was very
meagre, the names of the dead being I'M
known save in few cases. Thos. Spring,
shot at Gath street and 9Th avenue: two
unknown men in front of Bryant's Thea
| tire; there were thirteen unknown dead
bodies at the 10th precinct station house
and four at the Doth, one of which is sun
posed to be that of Timothy Hanlon, of Ist
avenue and llth street; one, unknown, at
Goth precinct station house; w. j. Satin
lete, at 10th precinct; II. c. Page, treasurer
Grand Opera House, skull crushed in with
a brick; Sergeant Lane Wyatt, Ninth Regi-
ment; John Hoch, aged fifty-two, shot
through the shoulder-wound dressed and
sent home; an unknown man was found
dead by some citizens in Sth avenue, and
sent to the Morgue; Patrick Slater, shot in
leg; Michael Lokey, arm broken; Casper
Sylver, shot in leg; w. Flatteruh, of
Brooklyn, shot through the head-both
sent, to Bellevue Hospital.
SERMON OF THE ARCHBISHOP.
AT the dedication of st. Paul's Catholic
Church, at Harlem, on Sunday, Archbishop
McCloskey thus alluded to the threatened
Orange demonstration "Before 1 part
from you to-day there is one subject,
though not Immediately connected with
to-day's celebration, to which would call
your attention, and on which I find it
necessary to say a few words. can enter
upon it at once, for we all know too well
the danger which threatens this community
in the course of the ensuing week. The
newspapers have agitated it, rumor has
waited it to our ears, and even the dead
walls are placarded with the lowering evil.
Everything tells us that a Systematic and
! combined effort Is now being made to ex-
cite an anti Catholic movement in the COM
munity. The procession announced to
take place in our streets on Wednesday
next is intended by the participants-at
least by the chief movers in the affairs-to'
produce the end 1 have spoken of. But
what they do and how they act it is not
our business to discuss. The question for
us is, what is tho duty of Catholics on this
occasionH Beyond all doubt it is to prove
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world that, no matter what provocation
they may receive, and no matter how
! wantonly soever they are tainted and in