The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-07-31
incidents Of lhe Now YORK RIot.

Inc WOrQ says. Inc WIlLer OF tnS
had seen in the early part Of thu day
nenr Hibernia Hall, in Priueo street,
more tLan mortal man his frame was
herculean his face not unlike that which
Mirabeau describes us his own-that ola
tiger who had had the smallpox. He
seemed filed with suppressed ferocity
not pleasing to SEQ. He was the centre
Of no group yet no bystander, interested
or not in what was to be the order OF the
day, could help looking at him as type
Of bad md dangerous class. He stuck
out his jaws, twisted his hand about
nervOusly, and evidently was bursting
for q row. The better sort OF men about
Hibernia Hall did not seem 10 like him,
but another sort afterwards followed him
into Broadway, up which they went,
Later in the day the writer saw the same
man near the st. Denis Hotel, whom the
Oangemen were marching up to their
rendezvous. Again he saw the same
ominous actions, aud, looking for a re-
suit, saw one when on the heads Of his
comrades, for good cause, descended
the policemens clubs, and where they
fought there they fell, but not the hero,
whose thoughts then We're bent on safety.
Sill later The same man WIS seen urging
q crowd up Twenty.sixth street to do
deeds OF yalor ut Eighth avenue, He
pressed his way To the first ranks there
was yolley fired, and the reporter had
the pleasure u looking at the dead face
Of the bully, shot right in the mouth
and lying in the gutter.
After the storm had passed, its track
was marked by signs CHASTITY and desc.
hitting. AT each place where riot had
occurred law Ind left it's mark. Doors,
lialf.openod to hide some shrinking
wretch who had tried to place them be-
tween himself and the destroyer, re-
manned half.opened, with n dead body
on the sill. Stairs leading into cellars
were sAppery with tho blood OF those
who Ind been tumbled headlong down,
For three minutes after the troops had
passed tile street was almost deserted
and then was filed again by wailing
women rushing about wringing their
hands and screaming for their dead
The-riotors Ind Disappeared; their place
was now filed with mourners. With
staring eyes the father sought his son,
and turned with trembling hands each
corpse, il perchnnce it might be that Of
which he WINS in search. Houses which
a few minutes before had been still and
apparently deserted now poured out
their inmates from every door, for from
each q father or sou was missing md as
the wurm.hearted Irishwomnn saw in the
mangled corpse at her feet oil that was
left Of her husband or her boy, her
wild keening pierced the air, and she sat
down on the ground, covered her face
with her apron, giving uncontrolled vent
to her sorrow. At tho corner Of Twon-
ty-eighth street, where the firing did its
most terrible work, tho sight was unen.
durable. I. '. i".H H|.. 20.
Here lay child moaning in Its death
agony, md looking piteously ut each
one who passed it, rs IL wondering
when its mother would como and take it
in her arms and carry it home. A man
lay Just rs he had fallen head first down
n cellar, another trnmpled into shape.
less mass in gutter. Hero was the
broken and denied stock OF u rifle ten
feet from the mnn whose head it Ind
crushed. Not to complete, but to give
terrible meaning to the story, more than
one woman lay dead, with the symbol Of
her unsexcd womanhood-a murderous
weapon in her han1. .a
Before the mob procession started from
Prince street, there was one person in
it, mere boy, who could not have been
over is, who made himself conspicuous
by the most violent action ndlanguagc.
He flourished revolver, and vowed the
most fearful oaths that he would have
the blood OF MI Onngeman before night.
Half frantic with excitement his slender
frame aud freckled face were seen flying
through the crowd rs he melted his fel-
lows to acts of violence. When the
party started lie took his place in front,
and for n long way marched by tho side
of his leader with his pistol in his hand.
An hour after, the writer Of this came
down the cleared tloroughfnre and was
attracted TO crowd ut drug store near
Thirteenth street. Passing through the
knot OF hystanders, he came upon the
senseless form OF this boy laid upon n
board. His skull was crushed, and the
blood had saturated him from head to
feet. A sorrow.stricken crowd glarcd at
him.
The snddest sight of nil, says the
Erming Post, was the body OF n young
girl, about sixteen years OF age, who
hid been shot through the heart. 1t is
probable that the child never looked SO
pretty in life rs she did in death. The
face was in perfect repose, and half
smile played around the lips, qs IL
when the death shot struck her, she
had been laughing ut the exciting scenes
around her, rejoicing, possibly, ut the
prospect Of collision between the mil.
itary aud the mob 4. t-t.........-.
II is known that many Of the most
desperate ringleaders were shot in the
net Of melting their followers to greater
exertions in the cause Of anarchy, and
of the many wounded at Bellevue Hos
pital, great number of thom aro hard.
looking rufiinns. One or two Of them,
whose hurts are less serious than those
OF their companions, uttered fearful
threats against the 0nDgemen, and
curses against the troops who had pro-
tecied them SO effectively, swearing to
be avenged on some future occasion.
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