Year: 1871




Vivid Descriptions of the Terrible Scenes


of the Day of the Riot!


NEW YORK, July 13.-The most deliberate
estimate gives the number ofrioters killed during
the day as in the vicinity of one hundred Over
one hundred and fifty severely wounded are in
the hospitals. OF course many were killed and
wounded who were merely spectators and in
nocent of any hand in the disturbances. lhe
police headquarters at o'clock this morning
looked like an extensive bivOuac. All con-
cerned were completely tired out with the days
work. All last evening Eighth avenue, in the
neighborhood of the riot, was filled with an eX-
cited crowd The doors and windows, riddled and
shattered with bullets, were pointed at and
curiousy examined. Scarcely any other busi-
ness was done. The cellars, down which men
had fallen and where they had died, had to be
barricaded, so intense was the anxiety to see
them. Men and women sought also the doors
of Mount Sinai hospital, where the wounded
and dying lay, idly wondering who was in, or
trembling lest some OF them should be their re-
latives and friends. Yet the doors were closed,
and the policemen, rigorous and uncompromls-
ing, neither would admit nor give hope or des-
pair to any


In the narrow open space between the morgue
on 26th street and the East river, and just in
side the Bellevue hospital gate, on 26th street,
there were twenty-Seyen cot1ins, side by side, at
twelve o'clock last night. Each contained
victim of the riot Another coffin with corpse
in it was on the floor, inside the morgue, and
two more bodies were yet uncotfined, lying on
slabs. The morgue was purposely kept dark,
because even at that late hour there was large
crowd outside the hospital walk, eagerly de-
manding admittance TO search for their missing
friends or relatives No one was admitted.
The majority of the Goth regiment were locked
up in their armory all day A small detach-
ment that went out behaved very badly and
affiliated with the rioters. As soon as tuls DC
came known the doors Of the armory were
locked and barred The police behaved noOly
throughout the entire day. But one man is re-
corded as having iinched in the hour of dan
ger Superintendent Kelso earned the thanks
of all good citizens


Last night Broadway looked like the street of
a city which had been depopulated by plague
The stages on the road were few, and THESE lew
comparatively empty. The Bowery dld not
present much livelier appearance than Broad
way. In the vicinity of the theatres few knots
of people were observed, but, with thiS eHcep-
ton, sparse numbers on the street was remark
able. The third avenue cars, which are Always
overcrowded up to ten O'Clock at night, were
not more than half filled last evening. This
state of affairs may be taken as applying gen
orally to the whole city. Grave apprehenslons
existed of further riots taking place during the
night, and peaceably disposed citizens renamed
at home. The streets in the vicinity OF the
police headquarts, at Mulberry street, were,
however, an exception to the other streets OF
the city. Knots of two and three were TO De
seen here and there, discussing the news as IL
arrived from time to time from the various dls-
tricts, and Mulberry street itself was Il complete
scene of hustle and excitement, hundreds OF
police occupylng the block adjacent TO the cell
trail office, and preventing ingreSs to all except
those having the right TO enter. A Visit was
paid to the 9th regiment armory, ABOUT lO:d0
last evening. The regiment were supplng, ana
were in readiness to move at moments warn
ing. At IL 10 two shots were hred IN quick
succession from the rear of houses on the south
side of West 27th street, the balls passing
through one of the open windows INTO the
armOry, and lodging in the ceiling. Two shots
had been fired about an hour previous.


1t has transpred that the port warden OF
this city was among those who inclted the mot
yesterday, and a morning paper demands MS
removal. William Duncan, OF the nrm OIL Dun-
can and Sherman, Rufus Hatch, the noted Dam
ker, and other prominent men VINO nave much
at stake in the city, have come to the conclusion
that unless New York is made safe place to
live in, they must leave. Rufus Hatch sad,
yesterday i'll the hearing OF men equally prom
inent as himself: al am democrat, Dut say
if this city is to be given over to set OF
drunken Irish rioters, it is about nme 10 stop
it. Why, its Just as if this set OF drunken
irish rnuubc the cOuufrV Ii DelTS the
worst religious outrage of the commune. AS
far us ascertained, it appears that no orange
men were harmed. Swift work will be made
with the rioters arrested both in New York and
New Jersey. The time is come to make an eX-
ample of the rebellious element. The sun ana
Times call on Mayor Hall to resign, believing
he has proved himself as bad as any of the
rioters who were engaged in the bloody work
yesterday.


Gov. Hoffman made the following statement
to newspaper reporter Yesterday " became
thoroughly satisfied that it was necessary, not
only for the present but for the future, that
whatever lawless element there was IN the city
of New York should be made to understand at
once and finally, that there was force enough III
the city, military and civil, to assert the power
of the authorities and of the law, and to pre-
serve peace and order, and to protect the lives
and property of the people, and determined to
issue proclamation at once, That professions
and assemblages for any lawful purpose should
be permitted and would be protected to the full
extent of the law far as the civil and military
power at my command would be sufficient.
There is no safety for the citiZen whether he DC
rich or poor, foreign or native born, Protestant
or Catholic or for his wife or children, except
in the maintenance of order under the authority
of law at all times, and the people, whatever Oe
their nationality or their religion, or whatever
may be their sympathies, will be sure to see
that il is their common interest to sustain the
authorities in preserving order at all hazards.


"This is not question of to-day's procession,
but it is q question which applies to all future
gatherings of men who choose to assemble lor
any purpose, personal, religious or political,
who threaten no interference with the rights OF
persons or property Of others; they have q
right to do so, and they must not be lntertered
| with, and under all circumstances and at all
hazards they must and shall be protected by
| the civil and military authorities. In the as
| sertion and maintenance OF this principle, men
| of all parties and of all creeds have an equal
| interest. The attempts to make the issue OF to-
| day one of religion or politics is wicked, mis-
chievous and malicious, and every good citizen,
| whatever may be his creed or his politics, is
bound to sustain the authorities in their deter
| mination to preserve order and vindicate the
| law"


Flags on the Erie ferry boats are at half-mas
| to-day for the 9th regiment victims. Robert
| MOrrsiOn, an Erie conductor, was fatally shot


while coming out of the opera house. An eye


witness of the shooting reports the panic and


rush of the men, who few moments before had


been boasting of what they were going to do, as
| indescrbable number of them came like an


irresistible current towards the door where was


Standing, burst it open, pushed me in, some


thirty OF them following, and SO dreadfuly
frightened that after being perfectly safe they


rushed round to find holes to hide themselves.


A number went in the cellar and some in the


coal hole. Others climbed out of windows SO


small and high mp that | supposed only, q cat


could get in and out of them, They mad no