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Show WOMEN MT RIOT POLICE RESERVE8 CALLED TO STOP FIGHT IN WHICH MEN AND WOMEN ENGAGE. Soores of Men and Women Badly Beaten and Bruised In Row Raised by Striking Neckwear Employes In New York. New York. Eighty-flvo men nnd women ap'ent Thursday night in tho Emergency hospital, following ono of tho most exciting riots Broadway has ever witnessod. Neckwear strikers decided to call out employees of a firm at Thirteenth street and Broadway. Broad-way. A fight started In which more than 200 women, men nnd girls took part. Police reserves wore called. Women's and girl's waists were torn into shreds and scores of mon nnd wom5n woro bndly beatori and bruised. A horso ran away, dashing Into n Lexington avenue electric car and was so badly injured thnt tho police po-lice woro compelled to shoot it. A numbor of shots wore fired, and this led to a rumor that tho pollco wero firing on tho crowd and caused In-cren8tfd In-cren8tfd confusion. Broadway was blocked to trafllc for half an hour. Tho firing of tho shots dispersed tho crowd, which scnttored In all directions. |