The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1871-07-14

llculately and OF course Incorrectly
Cells in the basement were crowded
with arrested rioters, and the inter
vening corridor was filled with the dead
who lay in all sorts OF positions upon
the cold, hard fagstones. The most
reliable estimates gives the number oi
rioters killed during the day as in the
vicinity of one hundred, and over one
hundred and fifty severely wounded and
in the hospitals.
The Number Wounded.
When it is taken into consideration
that only those helplessly wounded, and
consequently taken to the hospital, are
there, those slightly wounded slipping
away and hiding themselves lest it
should become known they had taken
part in the riot, some approximate idea
Of the number wounded may he had.
Certainly 800 is not too high an esti
mate. OF course many were killed and
wounded who were merely spectators,
and innocent Of any hand in the disturb,
ance.
In the narrow open space between
the Morgue on Twenty-sixth street in
East river, and just inside Lower Belle
vue Hospital gate, on Twenty-sixth
street, there were twenty-seven collins
side by side at II o'clock last night,
each coffin containing victim Of the
riot. Another coffin with a corpse in it
was on the floor inside the Morgue, and
two more bodies were vet uncotfned ly-
ing on slabs The Morgue was pur-
posev kept dark, because even at that
late hour there was a large crowd out
side the hospital walls eagerly demand
ing admittance to search for their miss
ing friends or relatives No one was
admitted.
Early this morning the lower gate Of
Bellevue, On Twenty. sixth street, will be
opened to permit the public generally to
view the corpses.
The number of wounded in Bellevue
at midnight was thirty-one. Most Of
the wounds are severe.
There are thirty wounded at Mount
Sinai Hospital All hospitals contain
a number of wounded.
KeIsO to the Front.
After the riot in Twenty-eighth street
and the dismissal of the procession,
comparative quiet reigned. The Super
intendent said all was over for the pres
ent. But yet it was not deemed pru-
dent to dispense with single safeguard,
and not man was relieved from duty.
The police certainly behaved nobly
throughou the day. Superintendent
Kelso earned the thanks OF all good
citizens by his eager, faithful and intel
ligent discharge of his duty. Ever alert
and clear headed, greeting Rlbbonmen
as numbering wretches. Going himself
to the front OF the fight in Prince
street, he fully redeemed himself long
before the terrible day was done, and
no chief was more ably and zealously
served than he.
The police headquarters at two o clock
this morning, looked like an extensive
hivouac. In the Superintendent
Office lay the chief asleep in the outer
office were several captains asleep on
the floor in the Inspectors office were
Inspector Dilks and number OF Ma
tional Guard officers in various attitudes
soundly sleeping. Elsewhere through
the building were the same scenes. All
concerned were completely tired out
with their days work.
Hoffman Makes a Statement.
Governor Hoffman Yesterday made
the following statement to reporter:
II became thoroughly satisfied that it
was necessary, not only for the present,
but for the future, that whatever law
less element there was in the city Of
New York should be made 10 under
stand at once and, finally, that there
was force enough in the city, military
and civil, to assert the power of the au
thorities OF law, and preserve peace and
order, and 10 protect the lives and the
properly OF the people. | determined,
therefore, to Issue a proclamation at
once that a procession and assemblage
for any lawful purpose should be per
mitted. and would be protected to the
ull extent Of the law as far as the civil
and military power at my command
would be sufficient. There is no safety
for n citizen, whether he be poor or
rich, foreign or native born, Protestant
or Catholic, or for his wife and children,
except in the maintenance OF order un-
der authority Of the law al all times,
and people, whatever may be their ma
tionality or their religion, or whatever
NAV be their sympathies, will see that 1t
is their common interest 10 sustain the
authorities in preserving order at all
hazards. This is not question OF to-
day's procession, but it il question
which applies to all future gatherings.
Men who choose to assemble for any
purpose, personal, religious or political,
who threaten no interference with the
rights Of persons or property Of others,
have right 10 do so, and they must not
be inrerfered with, and under all cir
cumstances and at all hazards they
must and shall be protected by the
civil aud military authorities. In the
assertion and maintenance Of their
principles men OF all parties and OF all
creeds have an equal interest. The
attempt to make the issue of to-day
one of religion or politics ls wicked,
mischievous and malicious, and every
GOOD citizen, whatever may be his creed
or his politics, is bound to sustain the
authorities in their determination to
preserve order and vindicate law.
The Sixty.uIuth Distrusted.
A majority of the Sixty-ninth regl.
ment were locked up in the armory all
dav. A small detachment was sent out,
but behaved very badly and affiliated
with the rioters. As soon as this be-
came known the doors Of the armory
were locked and barred. The majority
~ tho crowd that followed the process