The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-10-09
GENERAL POLICE ALARM
 CAUSED BY STUDENTS
SERIOUS TROUBLE ON YORK STREET IN FRONT OF
 PIERSON HALL.


 lice Met With Fails of Water-Re-
 vOIvers Discharged--Break in the
 DoOrs-AH the Police from Three
 Stations Hurried to the Scene-FrOl-
 ley Trafc Interfered With-City and
 College Officials NOtined-Many Ar
 rests and ExpulsiOns Expected.
 The usually Sunday evening calm was disturbed about nine o'clock last night by what the police say is the most disgraceful conduct on the part of the college men which has hap pened in this city in years, and in fact the affair took the form of regular riot for while. The trouble was on York street, ill front of Pierson Hall, and was caused by the occupants of that building, all of whom are fresh men. About three hundred students were involved in the affair, and prac- tically all the policemen from all three station houses except the Grand ave- nue precinct were called to the scene, and several of the detectives, while number of the college faculty and sev- eral thousand townspeople were at- tracted to the scene and the streets were filled in all directions. AS a re- suit of the affair 8 large number of ar rests are expected this morning and number of the participants, it was stated last night, would be expelled from college. ,t~
 The trouble started when number of guests were coming from a wedding at Lenox Hall on Broadway. There were a number of young ladies in the party and as they turned into York street they were spied by some of the freshmen who were at their windows, and a cheer brought all the other occu- ants of the building to their windows,
 As the party walked along the side of the building cries of Fire, Fire" rent the air and simultaneously match es by the boxes were hurled from the windows, igniting as they struck the sidewalk. In addition to this newspa- pers were set on fire and then by the dozens hurled burning into the street.
 Many of the ladies in the street be- low had very narrow escapes from having their clothes set on fire, and in fact all the other pedestrians and the passing cars and teams were in seri- ous danger. In addition to all this pis- tols were discharged from some of the room windows and this made an added danger. .
 Sergeant Williams and Officers Mur- phy and P. J. Welch, all of the Dix well avenue station, were in the vicini- ty, and hearing the disturbance, hur- ried to the scene. Their arrival was greeted with a cheer and then the cries of Fire" was changed to that of Wa ter, Water" and the order was quick ly obeyed, and as the officers arrived under the building they and others ut1- derneath were welcomed with deluge of water which was poured out in va rious directions. The doors of the building were locked and these the of- ficers broke open and then rushed up the stairs, their night sticks in their hands. They were met on the landing by a surging mass of men who rushed by them.
 Most of the shooting and water | throwing had come from the windows Ol Ltlb 1lISJ dIlu lll11u HUI OL lllG 1SLt wing of the building, and number of the doors were found locked. When the three officers tried to get the oceu- pants of these rooms they were almost rushed off their feet by the hundreds of students surrounding them, and they would undoubtedly have been seriously injured but that they told the students 1 that the first man who attempted to get through the door of the room where l they had been forced would be l dropped and this had the desired ef- l feet.
 Tn the mean time things were taking | place outside in rapid manner. There 8 crowd of students had collected and as trolley cars passed trolleys were pulled off the wire and signs were stol- 1 en.
 By this time thousands of people had l collected in the streets in which there was not room to hardly turn around. A riot call was sent to Sergeant Cook | at police headquarters and this was l followed by telephone call after tele- phone call from citizens and near by residents asking for protection and to have the disturbance stopped. At the first notification Sergeant Cook sent out the nine o'clock squad to the scene. He then sent out an alarm through the entire first, second and third precincts, and about all the men in these districts were hurried to York street. Several | detectives were also sent and i'll addi- tion to this President Hadley and & number of the other college officials were notified by telephone. Several of the police commissioners and other city officials who were in the neighborhood and who heard of the affair also hur- ried there. An alarm of fire would also have been turned in by one excited | resident, but for the fact that he was sstopped by some cooler headed men in the crowd.
 When the reserves arrived they saw a surging mass of men and found it a difficult matter to get to the entrance of the building. When they did get there they entered, leaving the other rapidly arriving policemen to take care of the trouble in the street while they went to the rescue of the three officers in the building. As they entered cry of warning went up and then the stu dents remaining in the building rushed out into the street and were quickly lContinued on Fifth Page,)