Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1871-07-14

Heart-Rending Scenes at the
MOrgue.
Trials of the Rioters.
Wednesday Night-The Lun after
the storm.
New YORK, July 19.-Everything is
quiet this morning. The troops blvouacked
all night and are still under arms, some
at their armories, others in the streets.
No disturbance is sppreheDded to-day.
The city last night presented quite con-
trast of its usual appearance. A still
ness was visible, the streets to q great ex-
tent were deserted, and few were to be
found enjoying their usual promenade.
Broadway looked as if every one had gone
out of town, all the business houses which
generally remain open to nine or ten
O'Clock, having been closed at an early
hour. The stages on the roads were few,
and those comparatively empty. The
Bowery did not present . much livelier
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In the vicinity of the theaters few
kaots of people was observed, but with
this exception, the sparse numbers on the
streets were remarkable. The Third ava
nue. cars which are always over crowded
up TO ten O'Clock at night, was not more
than half filled last evening. This state
of affairs may be taken as applying gen
orally to the whole city. Grave appre-
tensions existed of further riots taking
place during the night, and all respecta-
bic and peacea6ly disposed citizens re-
manned at home.
BustIe around Police Quarters.
The streets in the vicinity of police
headquarters, Mulberry street, however,
were an exception to the other streets in
the city, knots of two's and three's were
to be seen here and there discussing news
as it arrived from time to time from the
various districts, and Mulberry itself was
a complete scene of hustle and excite
ment thousands of police occupying
the blocks adjacent to the central office
aud preventing ingress to all, except those
having a right to enter.
1890 p. m.-Stray Shots at FisK's
Regiment
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 moments warning.
At lilo 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
o,o of M ora,, into +ha arr,nr,r
and lodging in the ceiling Both of them
passed in close proximity to the heads of
Lieut.. Col. 'Brsine, Capt. Bacon, private
Knowles and reporter. Two shots had
been fred about an hourprevious to these,
which had reused the boys, who wanted
TO pour q volley into the room, but Col.
Braine succeeded in dissuading them.
The reporter left them st 1880 O'Clock,
swearing that if the firing was repeated
they would clean out the house.
The Field of Conflict - SickenIng
Sights.
In the early part of the evening there
was large crowd stretched from Twen
ty-fourth to Twenty eighth street on the
east side of Eighth syenue, gazing at and
into the houses which had been struck by
bullets, and where there were other evi
dence of the days sanguinary conflict.
In cellar way, leading to bathing
establishment at the southeast corner of
Eighth avenue and Twenty-ffth street
was pool of blood. The building was
Clipped in several places above the first
story. Round the corner, in an area way
connected with the same building, was
another pool of blood, and blood epat-
tered on some boards and other wood
slowed in the area way.
The Utsh House, northeast corner of
Eighth avenue and Twenty-tifth street is
among the buildings which bear cOnspiCu-
GUS evidence of having been Clipped by
musket balls.
On Twenty sixth street there was blood
spattered over the basement floor of No.
260-s sickening sight. In gutter at the
northeast corner of Eighth avenue and
Twenty fourth street were pools of blood
and piece of some part of the head of
some one who had been MORALLY wounded.
A large crowd fingered looking at this
until it was dark.
The Agony OF Family Circles.
Soon after the fighting began the news
of the bloody massacre flew like wind all |
over the city. Every home that had sent
forth a representative defender of the
peace was racked with agitation. |
Throngs of distracted women hurried to
the police stations and hospitals, eager
to know the names OF the killed and |
wounded. When recognitions took
place the exhibition of sympathy and
grief was heart-rendiDg to witness. 1t
is simply impossible to give any full and
correct idea of the occasion.
scenes at the Sixteenth Precinct.
At the 10th precinct station in West
South street, was CHASTITY spectacle. A
vast crowd filled the street in front of the
entrance. The already exhausted police
steaming with perspiration and weak
with thirst and hunger, could scarcely
make way for the arrival of the i'm
provised ambulances which were OfeVery
style pressed in for the dreadful duty.
Bakers and grocers, omnibusses, and mar
ket wagons were used, and came in carts
in rapid succession freighted with dead
and wounded victims. Confusion naturally
reigued every where, and the sad task of
bearing the helpless forms into the sta
tion-if hurIiedly-was tenderlY per-
formed. Many dead are yet unidentified,
and the names of The wounded in some
cases were given almost insrticulately,
and of course in many cases
incorrectly. The cells in the
the basement were crowded with arrested
rioters and the intervening corridor was
filed with the dead, who lay in all sorts
of positions upon the cold hard flag
stones.
OVersa Hundred Killed and Three
hundred Wounded
The most reliable estimates gives the
number of rioters killed during the day
as in the vicinity of one hundred.
Over one hundred and fifty severely
wounded are in the hospitals. When it
is taken into consideration that only those
helplessly wounded and consequently
taken to hospital are there, those slightly
wounded slipping away and hiding them
selves lest it should become known that
they had taken part in the riot, some ap-
proximate idea of the number of wounded
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