Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-08
STUDENTS IN A R|OI
CLASH OCCURS WITH AMEs FIRE
DEPARTMENT DURING FOOT.
BALL CELEBRATION.
STUDENT AND FIREMAN
INJURED DURING THE MELEE
Bonfire, of celebrants Endansers Prop.
erty and Department is Called Out
Students Interfere, and Stream of
Water is Turned on crowd-one A.
rest Made and Peace Follows.
peclal to Times-R Republican.


Ames, Nov Stirred with enthusi
asm because the college team had won
hard battle from Cornell>during the
afternoon. 500 students from the Iowa
State College came down town Satur-
day evening and celebrated the event
as no other event was ever celebrated
in the history OF the institution. Two
hundred of the boys were clad In night
shirts, and nothing since the but
termilk student scrap" away back In
the early nineties ever compared with
the excitement and rioting that re-
suited from the football victory.
The parade passed thru the streets
about o'clock and Immediately the
boys scattered out and searched the
alleys for boxes and crates. In a few
minutes raging fire was burning at
the Ames Hotel corner and the root
ers, hand in hand. We're encirclng the
blaze, singing college songs and Yell
ing.
Sparks from the bon fire drifted over
the hotel and alighted upon the roof of
the Hytland shoe shop and the East
End livery stable Both of the business
places We're frame structures. and
while no fire had started, yet 1t was
feared that a conflagration might re-
suit and the fire department was called
out. 1t made a run to the hotel cor
ner and coupled UP the hose quickly.
AT the appearance of the fire depart
ment, however the students feared
that their celebration was going to he
spoiled and they threatened to cut the
hose. The threat made the fire boys a
trifle sore, and without a single word
of warning they turned the hose on the
whole crowd, driving the mob up the
| street for more than block, in front
of the heavy water pressure. A large
number of women In the crowd had
clothes and hats literally ruined by
| the sudden deluge
/. AT the same time a number Of the
boys rushed to the hydrant and at
tempted to shut the water off. Some
one struck a student with a hydrant
wrench and injured his head quite
badly, and at the same time Ed Proper
one of the fire boys. received hard
blow in the face. During the mix-up
the crowd took dray wagon load of
boxes down to the corner by the
Northwestern depot and instantly an
other bon-fire blazed up
After putting out the fire at the ho-
tel corner and wetting down the two
frame buildings which seemed To be
in danger. the fire company made n
run to the other fire. but the college
boys We're prepared for them The root
ers had piled the draw wagon on top
of the hydrant and We're perched on
top Of IT, When the fire depart nlent ar
rived the boys ran away with all the
hose and then demaned the fireman
who hit the student
Marshal Thompson climbed on top
of the fire wagon and gave the boys q
nice little talk, but they wanted re-
venge on the man who hit the stu
dent. Finally the marshal agreed tc
arrest the man if they could identify
him. and there being nobody else that
looked like the guilty man. they
promptly accused Fireman Os Mccoy
Mccoy was placed in TAIL and this
jewellers went up the street to dispense
With Yellmaster Adams on the dras
wagon seat the rioters returned the
wagon and all the other property with
the exception of a hose nozzle, which
could not be found. and a few minutes
before II the bunch returned to this
college and the citizens of Ames went
home to bed.
The riot would never have reached
the proportions that it did had not the
Ames fire department interferred ant
the department comes in for a goot
. deal of criticism on that account. be.
!, cause the college boys We're conducting
their celebration in very sane manner
when the fire company appeared or
the scene and tried TO throw cold water
. on the outburst of football enthusiasm
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, Brooklyn Octouenarian's Sudden peatk