The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1871-07-20

| time To time he clinched his fist, and seem.
ed to be making desperate resolves OF ven
| eence, and then would stoop TO look a,
one and another of the bodies. The sur.
| geon OF one OF the regiments came with
comm ndable promptitude to attend to the
wounded.
| At last, when the mob had been driven
far back on the side streets, the work OF
removing the dead and wounded began as
the column remsined at a halt
The riot was suppressed by this single
| vOlley. The most drunken and desperate
| of the mob could not he induced to re-
sumo the fight. Gen. Narean, indignant
at the action of the S4th regiment in fir.
| ing without orders, ordered it to the rear
and brought up the half of the 9th to take
| its place al the left of the Orangemen.
The procession then moved on. The pas
sion of the mob appeared TO have greatly
subsidized.
The sidewalks were lined with people
The windows of the houses were crowded
and at many points the workiDgmen in
| large numbers had suspended their labors
to witness the procession, but they were
all silent.
1t is doubtful if any case of the day will
compare with that of Mr. Lattimer, a mem.
| tSA w tIS On N aSSHu street,
| near Liberty. He was walking along
Eighth avenue, near Twenty eighth street,
| and when the drst volley was fired several
balls entered his body. One passed
through his breast, another shattered his
under jaw to splinters, and two took effect
Ill his neck. He at once fell on the pave
ment, and, although still living at Belle
vue Hospital, no hopes are entertained of
his recovery.
A sad sight was witnessed at the Morgue.
An aged lady dressed in deep mourning
sat by rude pine coffin which was painted
sickly red color, in cruel mockery of
rosewood, and contained the body of her
| eldest son. He was a vender of kindling
wood, and, IN company with a boy, had
been on his usual route. In passing d
cross street his attention was attracted by
the crowds on Eighth avenue and he
drove down Twenty seventh street from
Seventh avenue, to S e the procession. He
had scarcely arrived at his anticipated sta.
tlon of observance before the firing began,
and stray bullet striking him in the
breast, he fell off his seat dead The boy
al once drove home and informed his
mother, who sought and found the corpse
of her dead son at the Morgue-Nelo York
Ira6ltf<, Juty 13.
New YORK, July 13.
1t is feared that the carnage OF yesterday
was more fearful than has yet been re-
ported. Hundreds were wounded, of
whom the police will never be able to get
any account.
Soon after the fighting began the news
OF the bloody massacre flew like wild fire
over the city. Every home that had sent
forth repres NATIVE defender of the
peace was racked with agitation. Thror gs
OF distracted women hurried to the police
stations and hospitals, eager TO know the
naInes OF the killed and wounded. When
recognltions took place, the exhibition of
sympathy and grief was heart rend ng to
witness. Ii is simply impossible to give
ANY iull and correct idea OF the occasion.
a Newark lad, while riding on the top
Of ar, nntnihns Yesterday dSniaved an
tol struck him, and he fell from the stage
dead.
The following is a correct account of
the killing of woman and little girl sup
posed to have been Mrs. York and her
daughter, as given by an eye witness: II
was standing looking at the procession
and crowd, and there Was graat deal OF
excitement. Directly | saw woman
waving handkerchief to the Orangemen,
and | tloul ht she was very imprudent, OF
bad more cOuragd than women generally
have. Just at that moment, while she
was in he act of waving her handkerchief,
bury ruthan stepped up to her, and,
placing the muZzle OF his pistol to her ear,
Iir,d, ami she frll dead. He then turned
around, and, deliberately cooking his pls-
tol, fired bullet in the little girl and
she fell. | think the little girl must have
been II or Is years of age"
The scene at Bellevue Hospital battles
description Some Of the cases are very
touching. Joseph Love, a man of II
years, was out or situation, and, stroillng
up Eighth avenue to see the parade, re-
ceived shot in his head Only yesterday
his young wife and child lett Ireland to
join him here 1t will be sad tale to tell
the poor woman on her arrival here.
Perhaps the saddest sight OF all was the
body of girl about l6 years old, who
had been shot through the heart 1t is
probable that child never looked SO
pretty in life as she did in death. The
face was in perfect repose, and a half
smile played around the lips, as if, when
the death shot struck heI, she had been
laughing at the exciting scenes around
her.
At the Morgue, this morning the crowd
was allowed to pass around the bodies of
those Killed IN the riot yesterday TO see If
they could identify any OF the dead men
as their friends About 7 900 people must
have passed before II o'clock. AS the
spectators discovered among the dead one
dear to them-a love- d parent, or husband,
or sOn-shriekS which rent the air pierced
the hearts OF the other lookers-on, who
were more fortunate in having no one
among that long row of upturnei faces
whose loss they should mourn. Occasion
ally poor sorrow stricken wife would
throw herself on the coffin which held
the remains of her dead husband, and cry
and moan as if her heart would break.
The mother of boy of II, who was
shot as he was returning from school, came
to see his dead body, having learned from
| friends that he was at the Morgue. The
| body was, however, cOffined, and the I'D
nailed down, ready for removal so the
| officials told her kindly that she would
| have to wait until it was brought home
At that she broke out into wild complaint
and in accents broken 10y emotion, cried
out: "Oh, won't you let me see my boy
who never did any harm to any body
| Oh, let me see hlml Let me see him
| Doctor dear, give me one look at him
| w hat Will 90 at ali, AT All. was twenty
four years in England, and this didn' I hap.
pen" She thus went on in sort OF half
crazed manner, evidently almost driven
out OF her senses by the sudden blow
which deprived her of her son.
Many other heast-rending accidents &C
CURED during the period of Identification
| which go to make up the sad history o
the l2th of July, 1871
1he Tribune to morrow will contain
the following: The provocation which
the S4th regiment received at Twenty
fourth street and which led to the firing, ap
pears TO have been greater than first ac
counts indicated. While the dangerOu
elements of the mob We're masked TO th'
eye of the general observer, they are repre-
sented by policemen, familiar with sucl
gatherings, of the most terrify ing char IacteI
tits clear from all the evidence thus far col
lected that if the troops in their moment
ary excitement had not fired when the,
did, it would shortly have been necessar,
to order volley by the whole line, when
of course, the destruction of life woul
have been much greater than it was"