The evening world., 1894-04-03
POLICE BATTLED FOR LIFE.
Terence Gallagher, the Victim,
Said to Have Died of
Heart Disease.
ONE MAN HAD A BROKEN SKULL.
Lights We're Turned Out While
Dancers and BIuecoats Fought
with Clubs and Bottles.

The masque ball OF the Carmencita
Club. which was held in Tammany Hall
last night, ended just after 3 o'clock this
morning amid scenes of the widest ex-
citement There was a hand-to-hand
fight between policemen and dancers.
intoxicated women and men sought to
prevent police interference, and were
badly clubbed. When the disturbance
was at Its height the lights were put out.
How many persons were wounded in the
dark Is not known. When the lights
were finally turned on one man was
iouhd dead on the steps leading to the
street, another had a fractured skull
and third with badly cut head. The
dead man was Terence Gallagher, thir-
ty-three years old, a race-track tout.
who lived at l22 East One Hundred and
TWenty-tifth street. The police say
death was due to heart disease.
Mark Buckner, twenty-five years old,
a Baxter street puller-in, living at "a
Delaney street, has fractured skull.
George Lewis Bernstein. forty-five
years old. a bartender. of n Rivington
street has scalp wound. The latter
two were arrested.
The ball was largely attended. 1t had
been well advertised. Liquor flowed
freely, and both Inspector Williams and
Capt. Gallagher. had their hands full
in preserving order.
At o'clock this morning the Inspector
and Captain left the hall. Patrolman
George Smith, of the Eighteenth Pre-
cinct, was left in citizens clothing,
with instructions to see that no liquor
was sold. There were then / 500 persons
in the place.
The bar was closed. but that did not
prevent the drinking of liquor. Full
payne into boxes. holding them under
their coattails.
The floor proper was crowded with
men and women who, as they drank.
shouted to the dancers.
Some of the merriest of them poured
liquors from the boxes onto the heads OF
the dancers. In other boxes the widest
orgies prevailed. Policeman Smith and
his half dozen fellow policemen were ut
terly unable to check the drinking.
Roundsman Shay. OF the East Twenty
second street station, who was also on
duty. did all he could to keep the crowd
within bounds. At o'clock he decided
to take radical action.
In one of the boxes two girls were do
ing a skirt dance, surrounded by an ad-
mtrinS group OF men and women; The
their heels in the most improved fashion.
while others tried to pour wine into
glasses and only succeeded in getting 1t
on tne IpOr.
The dancing girls were Mary Adams
and Emma Jay. Nobody knows where
they live, but everybody knows them.
They have the reputation OF being disso-
lutte women.
The box in which they danced was oc-
Cupied by the Ike Nandeleer Association.
In the box were Steve Brodie, Eddie
Ill Edward Corey, an ex-detec-
tive, and dozen other men.
There are half dozen persons willing
Shay entered the Vandeier box he had
been drinking. 1t is said he began to
swear and ordered the girls to stop dane
ing. The girls stopped. Then shay
drinking This they refused to. do, and
shay was told to mind his own business;
| 'pon receiving this answer Shay seized
Eddie HirsGh by, the throat, and at
tempted TO drag Hrsch from the box.
In an instant the thousand persons in
the hall had made rush towards the
box in which the disturbance was going
on. \ nrst they Coutcntei themselves
with wells and Kisses. Shay held on to
H'rsCh,
suddenly a champagne bottle went fy-
in; through the air and was shattered
against the side Of n box, After that
nobody seems 10 know exactly what did
hapren. TIE half dozen policemen and
the thousand dancers and box holders
We're lighting the policemen using their
short clubs and the men bottles and
club, Women jumped from the boxes
others. Men fought with women in their
Wild efforts to gct to the stairs and Into
the street. The main floor ot the hail
was tumble OF lighting, screaming and
swearing men and women with here and
there policeman. tightiuE against fear
mi odds to protect his life.
In the boxes the scene of 'lC floor was
-2nsa,cd, but being cnnCr.l to smaller
limits, was more destructive. Tables
and chairs We're overturned and broken,
and doors were torn from their HllGu0.
~ Bplltt forced
~ police from the street. Within
rlgCk of Tammany Hall three precincts
ONE together. Fourth nNpGua il the
iiviiinS line OF the East Fifth ard Nor
'er street precincts, while F0urtrcath
treet is the southern bounlcTy OF me
cast Twenty-7econd street precinct.
from all three Of these precincts patrol