New-York tribune., 1909-04-26
1000 SEE RACE RIOT
IRISH And ITALIANS IN
FIGHT on WEST SIDE.
Saloon and Grocery Store U'recked-
Police Club 80 Combdtdnts-At-
Ieged Bomb Thro7cn Under Car.

About fifty Irishmen and Italians tried to exter-
inmate each other in a riot at Tenth avenue
and SD street last night. and not unti an IIaiid"
saloon and Italian grocery store mao oeeh
wrecked, about thirty cOmbatants cluooeu py lhe
police and eighteen arrests made was oroer re-
stored The fighting started at $50 O'CLOCK anu
lasted forty-fve minutes. simultaneously announcer
and smaller fight between italians at NO. 0oS west
sd street required police interference.
About 9 o'clock called up Pohce Heah-
quarters and said an Italian had thrown oomo
into a grocery store Tenth avenue and Szd
street and wrecked it, and that he was hiding
under a freight car at Eleventh avenue ana so
street Send the reserves quick" he salo-
The West 37th street station was informed ana
Acting Captain Samuel McElroy and hVe plain
clothes men, three sergeants and the feSe' YES
dashed the scene of trouble. They fouhd aoou'
fifty men, Irish and Italians fighting desperately
in the street, surrounded by crowd estiHld'eu e'
two thousand persons
The police drew their nightsticks and the plain
clothes men their ''billies' and began smashing
right and left In fifteen minutes they had re-
stored order.
Next they went 10 the saloon No. $50 Tenth
avenue owned by Mrs. Laura Morace The win
dows had been smashed. doors broken down. ana
the place shattered inside. They found nine ltal-
ians drinking Many of them bore marks OF hsht-
ing. All were arrested. along with Dan oraIl'
the bartender, who was charged with violating u'S
excise law. The others we're charged with cisor-
derlr conduct.
Captain McEIroy learned mat the trouble started
in the grocery store at No. 3J6 Tenth avenue
owned by Michael Morace. husband of Laura
Morace According to the police, two lrishmen Ell
tered the grocery ald got into argument with
three Italians Tho quarrel developed INTO q Hst
tight, and the noise brought a dozen Italians 70
their countryman's assistance The two IrlShhsn
retreaed to the street. where in few minutes they
reinforced by score Of their countrynoA
from adjacent tenement houses.
The Irishmen. outnumhered by tho Italians, filled
their hands with missiles and rushed the ItalanS
back into the grocery store and the saloon, Whlch
they besieged. When the approach OF the police
was signaIIed the Irishmen quickly slipped away.
leaving the Italians be- dubbed and arrested
The latter, slow realize this stratagem. went on
fighting among themselves. and we're at it hot and
heavy when Captain McEroy and his men ap-
peared.
While the police were battling 20 restore order
Captain McElroy head that there was serious trou-
BILE in the tenement house at No. 5O3 West 02d
street. He divided his forces, sending half there
and keeping the other half
At No 63 the police found two families named
zarro and Palmo fighting on the first hooT. Two
fathers and five sons srrcsted and charged
with disorderly conduct.
In the mean time Captain McEIroy had sent
painclothes man II Eleventh and sd
street to investigat- report that bomb thrower
was hiding under freight car. He hauled ont
Angelo Paluo of No. 500 West 53d street. who had
a bad wound in the forehead. evidently made by
some blunt instrument. DIT Iiartigan took the man
the New York Hospital where 1t was said he
was not seriously hurt.
The prisoners were taken 10 the West 51th street
station. After the Zarros and the Palmos had been
unloaded the police found the floor Of the patrol
wagon a heavy butchers hook. the prong Of which
had been Strengthened and sharpened They
thought this weapon might have caused Angelo
Palmos wound.
Captain McEroy said that for some time the
neighborhood where the trouble occurred, which is