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Show IIH IN NEW YORK Police Reserves in Military Mili-tary Formation Necessary Neces-sary to Quell Riot New York, July Three moo v.ere dangerously wounded and twenty others mors or less severely hurt early today, in the most serious "gang f;ght," which has occurred In New York City In many years Police reserves re-serves in military lormation, -iiirn-noned.by the helpless patrolmen on the West Side boat, where the trouble broke out. charged on the rioters and put an end to the disturbance only AftcT nearly a hundred shots hai been fired by members of the quarts quar-ts ling clans. According to the police po-lice reports, four gangs of roughs participate.! and lor fully half an hour fought hand-to-hand with revolvers, revol-vers, sticks, stones and any other weapons which were available. The fight was preclpllaiej when the members of tho Hear Athletic club after a dinner in a Tenth avenuy beer garden, began to leave the resort re-sort shortly after midnight. While the banquet was In progress, the I roughs from rival organizations had began to gathi-r at a neighborhood street corner. According to the police, po-lice, "tiic Gophers tno "Jungle t?ng' 'and the "Hounds of Hell.", all organizations wlrh which the officers of the law have had experience, wero repiesented l:i the mo l at lh; cor- With the appearance of the "Bear club' diners, the fight commenced. With yidls. curses and shouts, tho waiting gangsters threw themselves upon their rival.;. Then some one Ured a revolver and In an Instant gunplay was the order of tho hour. The firing continued at Irregular periods peri-ods until th? appearance of the police reserves. Whenever a gangster fell, he wa unmercifully beaten and kicked. Th entire neighborhood was thrown Into a panic. Many of the wounded w?re carried off by their companions before be-fore the arrival of the police. Fully I2"( men were still engaged In tho battle when the reserves reached tno tcene. A hau-oozen arrests were ruade. |