Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House on the Night of May 10th, 1849: With the Quarrels of Forrest and Macready Including All the Causes which Led to that Awful Tragedy Wherein an Infuriated Mob was Quelled by the Public Authorities and Military, with its Mournful Termination in the Sudden Death or Mutilation of more than Fifty Citizens, with Full and Authentic ParticularsAnonymous
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Account of the Terrific and Fatal Riot at the New-York Astor Place Opera House on the Night of May 10th, 1849: With the Quarrels of Forrest and Macready Including All the Causes which Led to that Awful Tragedy Wherein an Infuriated Mob was Quelled by the Public Authorities and Military, with its Mournful Termination in the Sudden Death or Mutilation of more than Fifty Citizens, with Full and Authentic Particulars
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Astor Place Riot, New York, N.Y., 1849; Forrest, Edwin, 1806-1872; Macready, William Charles, 1793-1873; Mobs -- New York (State) -- New York; Riots -- New York (State) -- New York
We believe that Geo. A. Curtis, John McDonald, Thos. Aylwood,
George Lincoln, Timothy Burns, Henry Otten, George W. Brown,
Wm. Butler, George W. Taylor, Owen Burns, Thos. Belman, Neil
Gray Mellis, Asa F. Collins, Wm. Harmer, Thos. Keirnan,
Mathew Cahill, Geo. N. Gedney, came to their deaths by gun
shot wounds, from balls fired by the Military during the riot
before the Opera House, on Thursday evening, 10th May inst.,
by order of the civil authorities of the city of New York;
and that the circumstances existing at the time justified
the authorities in giving the order to fire upon the mob. We
further believe that if a larger number of the Police had
been ordered out, the necessity of a resort to the use of
Military might have been avoided.
NEW YORK, May 14, 1849. JAMES H. PERKINS, Foreman.
O. H. WILSON, WM. BANTA,
LEONARD H. HEGAR, J. C. BALDWIN,
JAMES CROPSY, LEANDER M. SAMMIS,
SAMUEL RAYNOR, EDWARD C. ROBINSON,
JOSEPH B. BREWSTER, WM. S. SMITH,
GEO. W. DAWSON, THOS. S. MILLER,
WILLIAM BALLAGH.
Five other persons, in a few days afterwards, died of their wounds.
The following is believed to be a complete list of all the killed and
wounded:
LIST OF THE KILLED.
GEORGE A. CURTIS,
Aged 22 years, born in Chautauque Co., printer; shot through
the lungs.
JOHN McDONALD,
Aged fifteen years, born in Ireland, shot through the breast.
GEORGE LINCOLN,
Aged 35 years, appeared to be a sailor; shot in the abdomen.
THOMAS AYLWOOD,
Aged 19, born in Halifax, a clerk; shot in the thigh: died
after amputation of the limb.
TIMOTHY BURNS,
16 years, a printer; shot through the right lung.
HENRY OTTEN,
22 years; grocer; shot through the breast. He died in the
15th Ward Station-House, in presence of his aged mother.
GEORGE W. BROWN,
From Boston; clerk; ball passed through left lung.
WILLIAM BUTLER,
24 years; ship joiner; shot through the head.
GEORGE W. TAYLOR,
21 years; house carpenter; shot through the head.
OWEN BURNS,
24 years; born in Ireland; a cartman; shot through the head.
THOMAS BELMAN,
17 years; born in Ireland; laborer; shot through the neck.
NEIL GRAY MELLIS,
27 years; the musket-ball passed directly through the heart;
left a wife and one child. The deceased was a nephew to
ex-Alderman Neil Gray of the 10th Ward.
ASA F. COLLINS,
45 years; born in this State; business a house agent. The
deceased received a ball in the neck, as he was descending
from the railroad car.
WILLIAM HARMER,
16 years; a butcher; was brought to the Bellevue Hospital
early on Friday morning, having received a ball in the
abdomen; he lingered until four o’clock in the afternoon,
when death relieved his earthly suffering. He was a native of
St. John’s, New Brunswick.
THOMAS KEIRNAN,
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