A city ambulance bearing a white cross bounced through the rutted streets, collecting the wounded, both black and white. Fourteen bleeding men, twelve black and two of the three whites who had been shot, were delivered to Wilmington’s City-County Hospital. The hospital was understaffed—many of the white nurses and medical assistants had fled, fearing they would be shot by black rioters. The white resident on call, Dr. R. E. Zachary, treated the patients, the whites in the white ward, the blacks in the colored ward. Two of the black men died just after they were admitted.
