New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-20
MEN AND WOMEN BATTLE
BLOODY FIGHT BETWEEN DANCE PAR
TIES NEAR A POLICE STATION.

Two men were stabbed and score Of men
and women were injured in a vicious fight at
Twenty -third-st. and SecOnd-a ave. at 80 a m
yesterday. Although the neighborhood echoed
with screams of women. the yells OF men and
the sounds of three pistol shots. nc policemen
appeared on the scene. The fight took place
within a block Of the East Twenty-second-st.
station.
At the station last night it said that moth
ing known there of the fight The names
of the combatants or those injured are unknown
except that of one man. who was treated at
Bellevue Hospital. for stab wound over the
eye. who may have been in the fight Accord
ing to his landlady Mrs. Wanamaker OF No
800 Avenue c, he was brought to the house by
three men. who said he had been in a tight at
Twenty -third-st. and Second-ave. She advised
him 10 go TO Bellevue One man, who lives on
the upper West Side. and who called Ed
die" by his companions stabbed in the
right leg.
The fight which lasted for ten minutes. took
place between two parties Of young people who
had been attending a Saturday night dance AT
Greenpoint. one Of the parties, about eighteen
in number. was from the upper West Side, and
the other. twenty-five strong. had gone 10 the
dance from the Upper East Side OF Manhattan
The dancers crossed on the ferry to East Twen-
ty-third-st and there boarded a car OF the
Twenty -third-st. crosstown line.
II was said by one Of the West Side party
after the fight that while they were crossing on
the ferryboat one Of the young women in their
party was insulted by young man of the East
Siders When the reached the east side
of Second-ave. the East Siders began to leave
the car. intending TO transfer north on the Sec
ond-ave line. Suddenly a knocked
over the back of the car AS he struck the
ground the motorman was signalled TO go ahead
and the car shot across 10 the west side OF the
avenue. When il stopped several men jumped
from the car and back 10 where the man
had fallen The latter jumped 20 hts feet and
punched a man near him the nose The nlan
Of both parties quickly gathered and free fight
started. The women Of both parties rushed
among the men. endeavoring 10 prevent further
trouble. Several Of the women were struck in
: the face and knocked down. Then the battle
waged hard. men striking bndy. not seeming
10 care whether they hit friend or foe Suddenly
one man exclaimed:
I've been stabbed" and fell 70 the pavement
He was picked up by three men and carried TO
the car.
When the men were fighting like demons and
blood was flowing from many cuts and bruises
q Young man addressed as Johnnie" drew a
revolver from his pocket and fired three shots
in the air in rapid succession. His intention
was 10 break UP the fight. and he succeeded
police had come. The West Siders rushed back
for their Two men We're covered with
blood from head to foot. The party left the
car at Eighth-a ave. and transferred north.
Among the victims of the fight was a man
about sixty years old, not of either party. He
had a deep cash on his forehead and several
cuts on his face from which the blood was flow
ing freely. While the fight at it's height
he a man strike a woman in the face. The
old man jumped at the woman's assailant and
knocked him down. In minute he was
knocked down himself and kicked and
beaten.