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Doc. 85.--the Baltimore riot.

The following is a recapitulation of and wounded during the collision, April 19th:

Citizens Killed.--Robert W. Davis, Philip S. Miles, John McCann, John McMahon, Wm. R. Clark, James Carr, Sebastian Gies, Wm. Malloney, Michael Murphy.

Citizens Wounded.--James Myers, mortally----Coney, Wm. Ree, boy unknown.

Soldiers Killed.--Two, unknown.

Soldiers Wounded.--S. H. Needham, Michael Green, D. B. Tyler, Edward Colwin, H. W. Danforth, Wm. Patch; three unknown.

The total killed is nine citizens and two soldiers; wounded, three citizens and eight soldiers.--Baltimore American, April. 22. [134]

The Washington Star says: The wounded of the Massachusetts soldiers in the fight at Baltimore on Friday, are as follows: Company C, Stoneham Light Infantry--Capt. J. H. Dyke, ball wound in the head; left in Baltimore, and supposed to have died since; Henry Dyke, ball wound in the leg; W. H. Young, hit with a brickbat on the arm; Stephen Flanders, bad wound with a brickbat on the head; H. Perry, brickbat wound on the knee; John Fortier, wounded on the head with a stone; C. L. Gill, a bad wound on the knee from the breech of a gun; John W. Pennall, knocked on the head with a brickbat; John Kempton, several bad bruises on the legs and arms from paving-stones; Morris Meade, wounded on the leg by a brickbat; Lieut. James Wroe, two side cuts on the head from brickbats; Daniel Brown, the third finger of the left hand shot off. Company D, Lowell β€” C. H. Chandler, wounded on the head by a brick. Company I, Lawrence β€” V. G. Gingrass, ball through the arm; Alonzo Joy, two fingers shot off; Sergeant G. J. Dorall, cut on the head with a brickbat; of this company five or six are left in Baltimore, and the nature of their wounds is not known. Company D--W. H. Lamson, struck on the eye and back of the head with paving stones, and other severe bruises on the body. Charles Stinson, Company C, nose broken with a brick. Company D--Ira W. Moore, badly wounded on the left arm with brickbats; George Alexander, back of the head and neck badly cut with a brick.

The Star adds: β€œAll the above, except Capt. Dyke, are at the Washington Infirmary, under the charge of Surgeon Smith, of their own regiment, and Dr. J. S. Smith, Surgeon to the D. C. Volunteers, who has kindly volunteered his services as assistant. A considerable number of citizens of Massachusetts temporarily residing here, have formed themselves into an association to aid by money and other means in relieving troops sent here from that State, whenever assistance may be required.”

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