The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-08-07
A BIG CHINESE FIGHT
BATTLE BETWEEN TWO OF THEIR
 RIVAL SOCIETIES.
Riot Occurs in New York Theatre and When the Police Arrive They Find
 Dead Foreigners as Result.

New York, August 6.-As result or a battle between two of the big Chi nese societies In the theatre in Dover Street. tonight three Chinamen were killed, two fatally wounded and many ceeded In breaking up the riot they had arrested enough inhabitants to fill the Elizabeth Street and other police stations in the vicinity. According to a report made by the police, the Hip Sing Tong started the trouble and de- liberately selected the Chinese theatre, which is seldom visited by the police, as the most formidable scene for ope- rations. The theatre holds about 400 people and on Sunday when 1t Is crowded with visiting celestials from all over the metropolitan district. it is always packed. ......: ..
 When tine battle began not seat was to be had and many were stand ing Among the latter. In the back of the theatre, were several of the Hip Sing Tong mob with big 44-calbre re- volvers concealed beneath their flow ing garments. Suddenly as the act ors on the stage reached a climax in the play there was a loud explosion quickly followed by several others in the front of the theatre near the stage The actors fled in terror and the pack cd audience suddenly got IS far as 1t could toward the rear, where several Hip Sing Tongs began an indiscrimi- nate fusilade into the throng. It de- veloped later that the first explosion was made by huge firecrackers
 Finally in desperation the audience charged the men with the revolvers and, bearing them down, got to the one exit which was open. There they fought desperately to reach the street. The first explosions had started the crowd and as the theatre poured its frantic crowd into Dover Street the packed tenement houses, filled for the most part with Chinese. and with a sprinkling of white men and women, added their crowds and for the next hour it was a scene of widest excite | ment
 When five policemen managed 10 | force their way into the theatre they found five men lying in pools of blood and score or more hiding under benches. the backs of which were splintered with bullets. In a short time the reserves from Elizabeth Street and other stations arrived. Two am i balances were called and the men hurt
 four of them dead. were hurried to a
 hospital. One of them died soon after
 reaching the hospital.
 squad of police hastened to the l headquarters or the Hlp 0ihE lohe
 which Is at 12 Bowery. When they ar rived there were three men in the
 building and they found four others | hiding,
 A little later Mock Duck, alleged tc
 be the leader of the Hip Sing Tong
 was arrested. According to statements
 made by Chinamen to the police he in-
 stiEated the affair and remained out
 side the theatre. having sent into II
 the men who did the shooting, with
 orders to wait in the back until con
 SeSerate in front set orr the big crack. | CTS
 This, the police. say Is exactly what
 took place. After the arrival of the men found in the headquarters of Hir
 Sing Tong in the Bowery the detectives arrested other Chinamen. More thar thirty were arrested. Two of the mer
 arrested in the Hip Sing Tong head