Huntsville gazette., 1884-04-05
AFTER THE BATTLE.


Resting Behind the Barricadss, While
the Citizens Grimly Inspect the Battle
Field-Mutterings, Like Distant Thunder,
Still Heard-The Dead and Wounded-The
Lost Records.
CINCINNATI, o., April l.
To night has been very quiet. When
the smallest nucleus of a crowd ap-
peared anywhere within sight of the barri-
cades the soldiers ordered the people to
move on andi every instance the orderwas
promptly obeyed. Young Getz, who was
shot by accident in the afternoon, was
still alive but in a dying condition at l
A. NJ. An order has been issued for the
attendance to-day at the funeral of Cap
tain Desmond. Each regiment is or
dered to detail one company to report at
7 a. m. Colonel Hunt will command.
Generals Anderson and Ryan and Adju-
tant Gage are requested to attend to re-
present the staff The city is patrolled
by members of the Grand Army of the
Republic in addition to the police force.
There have been several arrests of drunken
men and the police closed saloons at mid
night. The smouldering fire in the Re-
corder's office broke out tonight but was
soon extinguished.
DEAD AND DYING.
Since the last report four additional
deaths have occurred at the hospital,
Fred Beckenhors, Leroy Simons, Chas.
Miller and Andrew Nichols. The exact
number of dead and wounded Will proba-
bly, never be ascertained, on account of
many of the wounded being carried away
by friends, but the number killed out
right or dying at the hospital up to mid
night last night is forty-one, as shown
by city undertakers and hospital records
and such information from those taken
home as could be had, and the number of
wounded compiled from the same source
is 120. There are probably half as many
more wounded and not reported.
STILL INDIGNANT.
There are two factions producing the
disturbances. The first, and now much
the more prominent, is composed wholly
of the vicious class proper, who aim only
at ruin, destruction and pillage, who have
seized on the occasion for that purpose.
The other is now largely of the German
element, whose only object is to deal
summary Justice on the unhung muir
derers. They are still indignant at the
failure of Friday nights attempt, and
from them will come future trouble in
that line after the military departs, if it
comes at all. Even the women are vim
dictive. Said one to-day: "Wait till the
soldiers go away and you'll see. Right
is right, and we will hang those fellows
yet"
DESTRUCTION OF RECORDS.
The chief topic of conversation among
the lawyers who walked about the ruined
Court house was the effect upon all legal
business of this destruction of records
As to real estate titles not much more
than Inconvenience is expected, as many
deed records were saved; and besides an
abstract company has copy of abstracts
of all titles which, with deeds in possess
sion of individuals, keep the chain of
titles clear. The greatest inconvenience
and loss will result from the loss of origi-
nal vouchers in the cases of estates, as
signments and trusts in the Probate
Court.
How to collect the June taxes is a
problem not yet solved. The commits
siOners have asked to be present when
the treasurer opens his safe. This is be-
cause there is no means of determining
how much money he has there belonging
to the county. The destruction of rec
Ords of civil suits, while causing incon-
venience, will clear up many tangled and
tedious cases, and probably not be an un-
mitigated disaster.
WARLIKE.
During the day the scenes about the
jail and Courthouse were strikingly like
those witnessed in war times. Barricades
were constantly lined with guns, lying
ever ready at any instant for service
Within the lines on Sycamore street
stood five pieces of artillery with artillery
men on guard. On the sidewalks were
soldiers off duty, sitting down or
stretched on blankets asleep, with KNAPP
sacks for pillows. There was none of
the rollicking humOr usually seen In
militia corps, but the tone was that of
soldiers after a hard-fought battle. The
general conversation was in low tones.
A considerable number of citizens
mingled with the soldiers, talking quietly
or looking at the signs of mob violence at
the jail or Courthouse, or on the De Bolt
building, where so many bullet marks are
visible. The Jail office is still in the con-
fused condition in which the mob left It.
Great beams and timbers, used as props
to the broken doors, are still in place.
Sight-seerS occasionally wandered
through the ruins of the Courthouse
but the toppling inner walls, hanging
iron josts and stair ratings, as we'll
as uncertain floors, made that
too venturesome for most visitors. Pho
tographers and artists were taking views
and sketches of the ruins. People out
side did not gather in crowds near the
barricades. Something in the suggest
i've readiness of those protruding guns
and an uncomfortable uncertainty wheth-
er they might not be fired upon an insult
ticient provocation, took away all interest
to mere sightseers. The people did not
like to see squad collected anywhere in
sight of the soldiers and the police re-
quest to "move on'' was always prompt
ly obeyed
FEEDING SOLDIERS.
The subsistence of the troops at the jail
was comparatively easy, though the first
meal taken by the Fourteenth Regiment
was very unsatisfactory. 1t was served
Sunday morning by placing on the side