OCR Text |
Show FIG IITIXG IX HAVANA. THIRTY TO FORTY PEOPLE ARE WOUNDED. I'ullre OBnr ICouiclily Handled at a Mul-lato Mul-lato Hull, . ill Wlieu Kcluforceuients Arrived tUe Crowd Opened J-ire I pou 'I'lieui. Havana, .March 21. A serious conflict con-flict between the police and people of Havana' .Saturday night resulted in much shooting and clubbing. From thirty to forty people were wounded, some seriously. Among the injured is Police Captain Fstampes, formerly a colonel in the Cuban army. The trouble occurred at a public mulatto ball in Sau .Jose street, an unsavory un-savory quarter. Many Cuban officers, colonels and captains among them, attended the aifair. A policeman on duty in that street, following orders to prevent a crowd collecting in front of the building where the ball was in progress, asked a group of men to go in or disperse. His request was unheeded, un-heeded, and after repeating it he was attacked by the gioup, whereupon many men issued from the building and set upon him, took away his club and revolver and handled him roughly. The policeman immediately notified headquarters, who ordered twenty reserves re-serves to the scene. The crowd had prepared for their arrival. Jt is said they opened with a revolver fire upon the police, which the latter returned, the shooting being kept up until the ammunition was exhausted. The opponents op-ponents of the police acted with determination deter-mination in the affray. Many who were in the building mounted the roof, which was low, and fired upon the police po-lice from that point. They were apparently ap-parently well armed, and this fact, together with the resolution with which they fought, seems to confirm the belief that the attacking party was mostly made up of Cuban officers, as ordinary civilans would have fled from the revolvers of the police. Several women were injured during the affray. |