 Within ten minutes the crowd had been dispersed , at the cost of eleven dead and more than six hundred injured . Only the wounded , their helpers , and the dead were left behind ; a woman living nearby said she saw " a very great deal of blood " . For some time afterwards there was rioting in the streets , most seriously at New Cross , where troops fired on a crowd attacking a shop belonging to someone rumoured to have taken one of the women reformers ' flags as a souvenir . Peace was not restored in Manchester until the next morning , and in Stockport and Macclesfield rioting continued on the 17th . There was also a major riot in Oldham that day , during which one person was shot and wounded . 
