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Show TUBE KILLED IS mmm Wild Scenes Attend New York's Welcome to Returned Re-turned Soldiers. NEW YORK, March 25. Tho frreat-est frreat-est holiday crowd in the history of New York packed Fifth avenue from dawn until evening today bent on seeing, or, at least, getting within cheering distance dis-tance of, the Twenty-seventh division's home-coming parade. . The historic avenue, as well as all cross streets, was one surging mass of struggling humanity 'jostling, struggling, strug-gling, crushing aud, on occasions, trampling tram-pling f frljen members in & wild scramble to get nearer their heroes. Three persons per-sons were killed, nearly 100 were taken to hospitals or homes to recuperate, and hundreds more nursed bruises. Although the crowds were good-natured, they absolutely refused to obey the 10,000 struggling policemen. Plying wedges of police automobiles and mounted patrolmen charged the masses, plowing narrow paths, which frequently were closed as soon as the wedges had passed. More than a hundred hun-dred women and children were caught in crushes and more or less seriously injured. in-jured. Awful Confusion. The scenes of confusion which attended at-tended the parade from start to finish first became serious at Madison Square, whore the entire street was blocked. The parado was compelled to halt for a time while the police bored a narrow passageway through which the troops passed. Other serious breaks occurred in tho police lines at Thirty-fourth, Forty-second and Fifty-ninth streets, but perhaps the wildest scenes of confusion con-fusion occurred at Parkway Circle, 110th street, where tho lino of march terminated. As soon as tho automobiles carrying the wounded had passed, tho exhausted policemen relaxed their vigilance for a moment and tho crowd went beyond all bounds, lu a twinkling tho vast circle I was literally jammed with men, women and children.' The police worked fran-ticnllv fran-ticnllv to check them, but not until flying wedges of horses and automobiles wore called into play was even a semblance sem-blance of a passage made for the marchers. The clank of hob-natlcd shoes upon the pavement spelled an epic in American Ameri-can history. Never before had a full division of Yankee veterans ftsh from Knropcan service passed in review in an American city. Crowds Are Unprecedented. "Fiehting .lack" O'Ryan, who led the line, was the only ma.ior general ot the national guard who took Ins men to France ami brought them hack still UOo"ntinu7d on Page 9, Column 6.) THE KILLED Iff HOLIDAY CRUSH i (Continued from Page One.) their commander. Never before, on this continent, at least, had so many thousands thou-sands .cheered a military spectacle. Even New York, famed for its crowds, never had mobilized so many men, women wom-en and children along" a single street. To the city dwellers were added hundreds hun-dreds of thousands who had poured in from every corner of tlie state. Tens of thousands more had come from other j ! states. j ! The police estimated more than n,di)0,- '000 persons were packed into five miles ; I of Fifth avenue in the sunshine of a ; perfect day. The sidewalks' on both ! ! sides were choked with humanity, and j i at every intersecting street Ihe crowd I bulged out east and west for a distance dis-tance of a block. Every open space was i packed with an immovable mass of hu-! hu-! mairity. Stretching along the east side of f'en-j f'en-j tral park, from one end to the other, 'was a grandstand two. and a half miles long. In it were some b'O,PO0 relatives of the Twenty-seventh. The other lo,-0U0 lo,-0U0 scats were filled with wounded soldiers sol-diers from the army hospitals, federal officials, governors of this and other states, members of the legislature, mayors may-ors and official delegations from upstate up-state cities. |