The record-union., 1892-06-01
Two Chinese Merchants Killed and a
Highbinder Wounded.
A PERFECT FUSILLADE OF SHOTS.
Bullets Whistle Through a StFeet-Car-- Mar.
row Escape Of the Passengers From Be-
ing Shot Ot---HighbinderS Must Go.

"Baug - bang! - bang bang
bang ba-a-a-a-a-ng! bang !"
That is about the way it sounded to
people downtown at 1915 o'clock last
night, when the long-talked-of Chinese
highbinder war broke out in dead earnest.
The outbreak had been threatened for
some time, but it was generally believed
that matters had been fixed up and the
prospective fight was off.
Even when a Chinaman informed some
Of the police yesterday that there was to
be fight last night the story was not
believed. But there was one, and it was
a bloody one at that. AS the result two
dead Cinnamon are lying in the Morgue,
and another is at the Receiving Hospital,
shot through the hips and will probably
die.
First there was a single shot; about
two seconds later there was another, and
then followed a perfect fusillade that
would have reminded a Grand Army
veteran of some Of the vigorous engage
ments along the line during the late
war.
THE BATTLE BEGAN ON THIRD STREET,
Between l and J, in front Of the Chez
Gong Hong highbinder headquarters,
and about the same time there was an
other outbreak in front of the Bing Hong
Tong highbinder headquarters, on ]
street, between Second and Third.
From the balcony in front of the first
named gangs fortress belched forth q
sheet of fire from a score or more of big
revolvers, which was supplemented by d
fusillade from both sides of the adjoining
alley and from various portions of the
sidewalk on either side.
CITIZENS ENDANGERED.
Just as the firing began an electric car
was passing through Third street and was
right midway between the contending
hosts during the hottest of the fight.
Bullets whistled through the open carand
the terror-stricken passengers scram bled
out of it as best they could. The grip
man put on the brakes and he and the
conductor sought the first place of safety.
AS soon as
THE SMOKE OF BATTLE
Cleared away and the last shot was heard,
there was a rush Of white men and Chi
nese to the scene. Officers Higgins,
Frank Rider and Talbot, and Specials
May and Greer We're soon on the ground
and making arrests of suspected COM
batants.
KILLED IN HIS OWN HOUSE.
On the west side of Third street, di-
rectly opposite the headquarters Of the
Chez Gong Hong Company of highbind-
ers is the little cigar factory of Lee Gong,
a well-behayed, industrious Chinaman
who lived there with his wife and two
little daughters. For some reason Gong
was selected as one of the victims, and 3
perfect shower of bullets ratified around
his domicile. One passed through the
open door, and penetrating a little win.
dow in a room in which he was sitting a.
the time, entered his left breast and he
fell dying into the arms of his wife.
a PITIFUL SCENE
Met the eyes of the RECORD UNION re
porters and others who were early on the
scene. Seated on the floor of the little room
was the victims wife, weeping and moan.
ing while holding the head of her dying
husband in her lap, while with her hands
she rubbed the ugly wound on his breast
as if in the hope Of bringing him back tc
life.
In the doorway stood the elder of the
two children, gazing at her gore-staineC
father and crying as if her little hear
would break. a reporter tried to sootht
her, and at the first kind word spoker
the heart-broken child grasped his hanC
and clung to him, exhibiting as muci
feeling and agony as any white chilC
would have manifested under the cir
cumstanceS.
Lee Gong, the murdered man, is spoker
of as one of the best Cinnamon in TIT
city, and is said 10 have been marked fo
slaughter by the Bing Hong Tong Com
pany because he was a hacker and sup
porter of the other company. He wa
first shot from his doorway by one of the
Bing Hong Tong assassins, and that wa
he beginning of the battle.
THE I-sTREET RATTLE.
Just about the time the shooting com
menced on Third street Officers Lowell
and Shook were driving down l street il
a hack on their way TO the police station
with drunken man.' As they got oppo-
site the house occupied by the Bing Hons
Tong highbinders the fusillade begal
there.
Hello ~ said Lowell, ''The Chimes
Fourth of July has broken loose !"
mo Fourth of July about that - crieC
Shook, as he unlatched the door of th'
hack and jumping into the street tool
refuge behind freight car that stood
near by, where he was soon joined by
Lowell. just then
CHINAIAN FELL DEAD
In the street almost at their feet, havins
been shot from the balcony above a:
soon as the fusillade was over the officer.
picked up the dead man, laid him on tn,
sidewalk. and then made dash up til,
stairs.
The dead man proved to be Yee Kie
the keeper of restaurant at the place
where the shooting took place.
Tn stairs the officers found high
hinder named All Tan, shot through th,
bins but lost no time in followin!
through the house to the rear yard
Gang of highbinders who were trying t,
escape.
THEY CAPTURED TWO.
When the officers got into the yard tn
C,hiuanen were scrambling over rea
,ance. but they caught two of them. Il