New-York tribune., 1902-02-03
RACE RIOT IN YONKERS.
THOUSANDS WATCH AUSTRIANS AND
RUSSIANS BATTLE.
FIGHTERS MAKE COMMON CAUSE AGAINST
The POLICEMEN AND WOMEN ATTACK
OFFICERS WITH KNIVES AND CLUBS

AS the result Of a race riot beginning in a
drunken debauch at a wedding IN yor,,oTs ,as
terday five arrests were made and two of tho
guests are in the hospital A hurry call far
ponce was sent TO the Yonkers headouarters
Yesterday afternoon. Captain Woodruff detailed
Olncers Q Mara and Kiley to the scene of the
trouble, at No. 80 Orchard-st They found great
excitement in the neighborhood and fully two
thousand persons watching a fight The officers
Iought their way through the crowd to the
mousse, "here they were met by gang of drink
claZed men, many of them cut and bleeding and
all had clubs or weapons of some kind
Ihey attacked the officers who stood side bv
SIDE and a hand to hand fight resulted, in which
several Of the maddened guests were knocked
sprawling by blows from the officers clubs The
Two bluecoats drew their revoIvers but their
assallants paid no heed to them Seeing that
their efforts to quell the disturbance among the
throng within, all of whom were engaged in a
rough and tumble quarrel, were useless the
oilcers called for help detail of six additional
patroimen under Sergeant George Cooley was
hurried to the place in a patrol wagon
CHARGE CROWD WITH HORSE AT A RUN.
The officers had to charge the crowd with their
horses on run in order to reach the house By
this time OMara and Kiley had fought the spec
tators back with drawn clubs. The fighting mob
inside had seen the officers approaching. and
evidently determined to settle the trouble among
themselves. they locked the door, Roundsman
Dinsmore and Sergeant Cooley put their shoul-
ders to it and broke it in. They met resistance
on the threshold and were obliged to fight their
way, with the other officers following them. into
two small rooms, where the trouble which now
mad been going on for hour, had reached
large proportions
covered that many had escaped to the back
yard Ohlcers Flood and Kiley went after them
and there arrested the two men who appeared
10 be the rlngleaders. Both were covered with
blood. The clothing of nearly every one in the
house was torn, and the screams of the women
and the curses of the men made awful din
The women chung about the necks of the police
men to keep them from striking the men, who
were trying to overpower the officers one fell
low tried three times to slash policemans neck
with razor, and was knocked unconscious with
a blow from a night stick, which opened his
scalp for several inches.
WOMAN TRIES TO sTRANGLE OFFICER.
man, who it afterward developed was the
best man, struck Cooper in the face with a
glass, He then sought refuge under a bed.
When Cooper dragged him out and stood up the
officer had the fellows sweetheart. who was
about four and a half feet tall. dangling
from his neck and trying TO strangle him. The
police finally drove every one from the house
about hundred in al-eXcepting the bride
and bridegroom. They had the five trouble
makers.
The bride between sobs. told them that liquor
and a social hatred between Austrians and Rus
slams had caused the trouble. Her name is
Annie Syclle. and her dress was torn almost
off. Her husband was badly used up from his
efforts to restore order. The police took their
prisoners away, and two officers left in
charge. Only those recommended by the bride
and her husband We're allowed to re-enter and
resume the celebration
John Stugo, the best man, Austrian. and
John Beuela, another Austrian, were taken to
the hospital Both were badly injured The
former had a part Of his scalp taken off by a
blow from an axe, and the latter cut Sc
verely about the face The other prisoners
Andrew Stein, George Stein and John Bone
chis6i, all Russians were attended by the police
surgeon. They were badly cut. All the officers
were used up and were considerably the worse
for their fight.