The _sbirri_ along the street pulled out their cutlass-knives; the dragoons rode on the footway, and struck out at the carriages filled with ladies as they passed by, while the police ran a-muck (I can use no other word) amongst the terror-stricken crowd.

The cries of the crushed and wounded, the terror of the women, and the savage, brutal fury of the police, added to the panic and confusion of the scene.

Not the slightest attempt at resistance was made by the unarmed crowd; in a few minutes the Corso was cleared as if by magic, and order reigned in Rome.
Short as the time was, the havoc wrought was very considerable.

Nearer two than one hundred persons were injured in all.

Of course the greater number of these persons were not actually wounded, but crushed, or stunned, or thrown down.