Soldiers beaten by the Mob.--Gallant Fight of Sergeant McCredie.--Mob Triumphant.--Beat Police Officers unmercifully.--Fearful Scenes.--Fifty thousand People block Third Avenue.--A whole Block of Houses burning.--Attack on a Gun Factory.--Defeat of the Broadway Squad.--Houses sacked in Lexington Avenue.--Telegraph Dispatches.--Bull's Head Tavern burned.--Block on Broadway burned.--Burning of the Negroes' Orphan Asylum.--Attack on Mayor Opdyke's House.--A Crisis nobly met.--Gallant Fight and Victory of Sergeant Carpenter.--A thrilling Spectacle. CHAPTER XIV. No Military in the City.--The Mayor calls on General Wool, commanding Eastern Department, for Help.--Also on General Sandford.--General Wool sends to General Brown, commanding Garrison in the Harbor, for U. S. Troops.--Marines of the States appealed to for Troops.--General Brown assumes Command.--Attack of Mob on the _Tribune_ Building.--Its severe Punishment.--Government Buildings garrisoned.--Difficulty between Generals Brown and Wool.--Head-quarters.--Police Commissioners' Office Military Head-quarters. CHAPTER XV. Telegraph Bureau.--Its Work.--Skill and Daring and Success of its Force.--Interesting Incidents.--Hairbreadth Escapes.--Detective Force.--Its arduous Labors.--Its Disguises.--Shrewdness, Tact, and Courage.--Narrow Escapes.--Hawley, the Chief Clerk.--His exhausting Labors. CHAPTER XVI. DRAFT RIOT--SECOND DAY. Appearance of the City.--Assembling of the Mob.--Fight between Rioters and the Police and Soldiers.--Storming of Houses.--Rioters hurled from the Roofs.--Soldiers fire on the People.--Awful Death of Colonel O'Brien.--Fight in Pitt Street.--Deadly Conflict for a Wire Factory.--Horrible Impaling of a Man on an Iron Picket.--Mystery attached to him.--Second Attack on Mayor Opdyke's House.--Second Fight for the Wire Factory.--Telegraphic Dispatches.--Citizens Volunteering.--Raid on the Negroes.--They are hunted to Death.--Savage Spectacle.--Negroes seek Head-quarters of Police.--Appearance and State of the City.--Colonel Nugent's House sacked.--Fight with the Mob in Third Avenue.--Battle at Gibbon's House.--Policeman Shot.--Night Attack on Brooks and Brothers' Clothing Store.--Value of the Telegraph System.--Captain Petty.--Seymour's Speech to the Mob.--Cars and Stages seized.--Barricades.--Other Fights.--Acton and his Labors. CHAPTER XVII. DRAFT RIOT--THIRD DAY. Scenes in the City and at Head-quarters.--Fight in Eighth Avenue.--Cannon sweep the Streets.--Narrow Escape of Captain Howell and Colonel Mott.--Battle for Jackson's Foundry.--Howitzers clear the Street.--State of Things shown by Telegraph Dispatches.--General Sandford sends out a Force against a Mob, at Corner of Twenty-ninth Street and Seventh Avenue.--Colonel Gardin's Fight with the Mob.--Is Wounded.--Mob Victorious.--Dead and Wounded Soldiers left in the Street.--Captain Putnam sent to bring them away.--Disperses the Mob.--Terrific Night. CHAPTER XVIII. DRAFT RIOT--FOURTH DAY.