Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1899-05-20
STUDENTS IN 4 RIOT.
Prinooton's Collasiaae Attack Paw
nee Bits W Va Test Parade.
SPECTATOR FATALLY INJURED.

The Showncn Resisted the Assaults
of tie STUDENTS AM. q Desperate Bat
tie Ensncd. In which Many OF the
Participants Were Hurt.
Princeton, ~ j.. May l6.-Princeton
students and Pawnee Bills Wild West
employees INDUCED in a pitched battle
yesterday, and continuous and serious
rioting Was perverted crly by the
presence oi rieI with cooi heads and
the action Of President Patton, uf
Princeton university, later in the day
In calling Il mass meeting of all the
studonts. President Patton spoke In
condemnation of the att;ic.! on the Pat
rade. and positively forbade any stu
dent to 20 to the show grounds ar
night As Il result of the meeting the
show left town unmolcsted. but it lost
money, for word h. d been passed
through the tcwI that no one III SYM
palhy was to enter the tent, and the
townsrcople who IRE in sympathy
with Tie students were unit in refus
ing to attend. The result was very
slim audience.
For 30 years it has been an unwrt-
ten law OF Princeton that no circus pa
rade must pass through the streets.
Every show proprietor in making his
dates has always left Princeton from
the list. for II had been Il matter OF
common knowledge that the students
would enforce the uIwritien law. Yes
lcrday lawncc Bill's Wild West COM
bination violated traditions and phi
raded. The result WAS the fcrccst
battle Princeton mas seen in many
years The town authorities fearing
trouble. had advise. the circus men
not to attempt i parade. This advice
WIS unhe2d2d.
Things were proceeding in the usual
course in the university when the pa
rade started The procession reached
the college campus without trouble,
but passed down Nassau street at Il
bad moment, Tor Just as the bands
music WAS heard the students were iii
the act OF paSa;iig from the first morn
ing lectures 10 the second. The towns
people were cut in force and waiting
for the parade, and ;he great ma
jorlty of them were masScd ne2r the
campus. Word passed all along the
line, and within Il few minutes GIO
or 700 students had assembled
on Nassau street, Cannon crackers,
left over from previous celebrations,
eggs purchased at nearly stores and
vegetables bought or c0nliscated from
the stores were assembled quickly. TIL
men unable to obtain these missiles
armed themselves with clods of turf
hastily torn from the lawns.
The trouble started with tho band
wagon Cannon crackers were thrown.
and these exploding under the SIX
horses made them frantic. The mu-
sicians were on top Of the wagon. y
serious runaway might have resulted
had not one of the leaders stumbled
and fell, dragging down the other
horses with him. The students mean
while kept up Il merciess lombard
ment with eggs and vegetables.
On the return the parade wheeled
into John lane, and the students made
grand rush to head off the process
sion Again The employees of the circus
were rotten egeed The cowboys and
Indians finally charged the students
and used their whips freely. That vas
the turning point OF The affair. Stun
ned by the Whips and bruised by the
riders running into them the students
became ugly. and in a moment the
missiles that were annoying. but not
dangerous. were replaced by stones,
and the fight bccan!a serious. Revol .
vers were drawn but fortunately the
owners were wise enough to fire over
the heads OF the enemy. Some Of the
Mexican and South American cow
boys unslung their bolas and used
these with great effect, the lcaden Gov
cred ends being exceedingly effective.
The cowboys charged the crowd sew
era times. and rode down those who
could not get out OF the way.
In this manner Edward Dillon. an old
colored mur. was knocked down and
was kicked on the head by a pony and
his skull fractured Dillon is still I'M
conscious, and will probably die. A
student was injured BY pony tramp
ling on him. Another was wounded
by a bola, and another was struck by
an Indian with one of the snake whips.
Many students were less severely hurt.
Tie cowboys and Indians were also
badly bruised and hurt.