The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-02-10
BATTLE WITH SNOW.
Dental Students Fight Police
With SnOWbaIls and Plast-
er Casts.

Chicago, Feb. 10.-A hard packed
SNOWFALL flew from the hand of a Rush
Medical college student yesterday and
found Judgment beneath the collar Of a
fellow student, who was just descend
ing the steps of the Chicago College of
Dental Surgery, across the street.
A second sphere, packed a trifle hard
er than the first, was the answer of the
young man who expects to treat aching
molars in the near future.
Quickly the friends of each combat
ant lined up in the street and there be-
gan a battle royal that ended several
hours later, as the shadows of night
were falling, in a fierce riot between the
students and a posse of policemen, who
were trying to dispense the gathering,
1t was grim war, with none of the
cOllegian's mirth to soften the bruises
inflicted, this encounter with the min
ions of the law, and when the fray was
at its heat snOwballs became too tame
missiles and plaster casts seized from
the college study-rooms We're grabbed
and sent hurting at the heads of the Op-
posing lines of bluecOats.
The policemen used their clubs, so
that they left many a sore and aching
head in their wake, but the plaster
casts and SnOWballs, soaked in water
to make them more telling when they
struck, worked sad havoc among the
officers and sent several of them to the
county hospital for surgical treatment.
One policeman was beaten while try
ing to detain a prisoner and his condi-
ton is quite serious.
The injured are:
James Brennan, patrOlman from Lake
street station, struck by flying piece of
plaster casting and right arm broken at
the wrist; also cut about the face and
head.
James Hart, patrolman from the West
Thirteenth street station, assaulted by
students trying to rescue prisoner, Sc
verely beaten over the head and 1eliev-
ed of his revolver with which he was
trying to defend himself.
Patrick NJ MahOn, patrOlman from the
West Thirteenth street station, struck
in the face by SNOWFALL and injured
about the eyes.
David Sullivan, patrOlman from Lake
street station, cut about head and face
by flying pieces of plaster casts.
The scene of the disturbance was at
Wood and Harrison streets On two of
the corners stand the huge buildings
that house students Of Rush Medical
college, now allied with the University
of Chicago, and the Chicago College of
corner are the grounds of the county
hospital, and still further to the west
is the Marquette school, which several
hundred young boys and girls attend.
All along the block on either side of the
street stretch the edifices of half a. dOz-
en- other institutions.
When the frolic of the two students
began at the noon hour scores of their
classmates were pouring from the two
big buildings, and this throng was sup
plemented by children from the Mar
Quette school The fun of the students
waxed warmer every moment, and the
fire of snOwballs from one side of the
road to the other made the street IN
safe for pedestrians, who had no fancy
for being bombarded with the missiles.
The children from the Marquette school
Withdrew to the shelter of their play
ground, afraid to brave the dangers of
the thoroughfare. The janitor, Her
mann Christian, observing this, went
into the road and ordered the combat
ants to give way while his charges
passed on to their homes.
Christians orders were greeted with
yells and cat calls.