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Title: History of New York City : embracing an outline sketch of events from 1609 to 1830, and a full account of its development from 1830 to 1884
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Lossing, Benson John, 1813-1891 Perine, George E
Subjects: New York (N.Y.) History New York (N.Y.) Biography
Publisher: New York, N.Y. : A.S. Barnes & Co.
Contributing Library: Columbia University Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: The Durst Organization

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n-coming multitude, the clerks in thestore hastened to close and bar the doors and windows. I>ut the vanof the mob was upon them before they could sufficiently secure one ofthe heavy iron front doors, and the mob rushed in and began roll-in<r barrels of flour into the street and staving in the heads. Whenthey had thus destroyed about thirty barrels, some police officersarrived and drove out the plunderers. Mr. Hart, who was at the meeting, as has been observed, when hesaw the crowd rushing in the direction of his store, hastily gatheredsome policemen and started for his menaced castle. In Dey Street themob fiercely attacked the guardians of the law and disarmed them oftheir clubs. The policemen, however, made their way into Washing-ton Street before the great mass of the rioters had arrived there, andentered the besieged store and drove out the marauders. Mayor Lawrence, informed of the mob at Hart & Co.s store,hastened to the scene. He mounted a flight of steps opposite and
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FIRST DECADE, 18:30-1840. 375 began to remonstrate with the rioters on the crime and folly and theconsequences of their acts. His words were in vain. Every momentthe numbers of the mob increased by accessions from the dissolvingcrowd in the Park, and the mayor was answered by a shower of mis-siles—bricks, stones, sticks, and pieces of ice—so copious that he wascompelled to retire to a place of safety. The mob was now unre-strained by law or reason. They made a rush for one of the ponderousiron doors, which was speedily wrenched from its hinges. Using it asa battering power, they soon beat down the other doors, when therioters rushed in in great numbers. The clerks fled, and violencereigned supreme. The doors in the upper lofts were torn down, thewindows were broken in, and when hundreds of barrels of flour hadbeen rolled into the street from the lower floor and destroyed, theywere hoisted upon the window-sills above and dashed to pieces on theground. Sack after sack of wheat was a

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