Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1910-07-05
ANOTHER TONG
WAR IN n. Y.
THREE KILLED IN REVOl.ER BAT.
TIE IN NEW YORK
STREETS.
ON LEONGS VS.. FOUR BROTHERS
Sleepy Chinatown Converted Into Pop.
ping BattIefield.-PoIice Arrest All
Who Try to Run Away
Seven Jailed.

New York, June 27.-The Tong war
the sleeps, but never dies, in spite Of
threats. promises and solemn treaties.
broke out Sunday afternoon in the lit
tie triangle of narrow streets, just off
the lower Bowery known as China
town.
In ninety seconds three Cinnamon
were fatally shot and more than forty
shots from heavy calibred revolvers
shattered against the bricks or stained
the pavements red. In three minutes
following, seven Chinemen We're ar
rested 1t was over nearly as quickly
as it had begun and for the remainder
of the afternoon the streets were as
quiet as they had been an instant be-
fore battle and murder broke the
stiffness.
1t happened that the 2,00Oth ami
versary of the founding of the Society
of the Four Brothers fell on Sunday
and in it's honor the members We're
to give a banquet in Pell street at 5
o'clock. A monster scarlet flag seal
loped in green floated from the ban
quet hall and guests began to arrive
early
Sunday is market day for China
town. Then the streets are thickest
with sightseers, then the chop suey
restaurants thrive best and in remote
back rooms the dice rattle faster and
the dominoes click sharper
Shooting Is Spontaneous.
1t was in the midst Of this restless.
shutting throng, sown thick with po-
licemen. that the shooting began at
o'clock. There Is no certainty of the
precise provocation, but it is gener-
ally understood that On Leong Tong
did not relish the fact that Chu Hen,
recently acquitted of the murder of
an On Leong Tong man, was to be the
guest of honor. The Hip Sing Tong.
the On Leong Tong and the Four
Brothers occupy each their own street
and no produent member of one So
ciety trespasses on the territory Of
another. Pickets had been posted Sun
day at the ends of Pell street by the
Four Brothers. and scouts of the On
Leong Tong patrolled the adjacent
boundary of Mott street There were
more policemen on the beat than usual.
both because this was Sunday and
because of the banquet
Somebody stepped over the line.
Somebody began to shoot 1t is doubt
full if any white man will ever know
who trespassed and who punished, be-
cause the rain of bullets came too
fast and from too many directions at
once for the eye to catch the first
flash. And no Chinaman will ever tell.
Sen Chin, the inevitable innocent by
stander, was the first to fall, shot
through the abdomen He will die.
Chu Foo was shot behind the ear and
in the back. He died later. Chau Pan
was shot through the left thigh His
injuries are not serious.
Thus far it has been impossible to
learn to what tong the individual
belong. Ali were taken to a
hospital.
The police made a scramble for
everybody that ran. but there were
more honest fugitives than combat
ants. and the doorways are thicker
in Chinatown than burrows in rab.
bit warren. Seven were caught, some
Of whom the police say they saw
shooting and others on whom revolv-
ers we're found.
The reserves were called out, a cor
don was drawn tight about the entire
quarter, all visitors were barred and
no curiosity wagons were allowed to
enter Then the interrupted banquet
If the Four Brothers. with Chu Hen
IS the guest of honor. went on.