Show A BLOODY RIOT Terrible Effect of Denver Beer at a Christening DENVEB Colo April 12A bloody riot i occurred late Sunday night between the rival Swede Pole and Hungarian colonies at ThirtyFourth and Blake streets which resulted in fatally shooting one man and seriously wounding several others and it was the combined efforts of the police force and patrol wagons alone that prevented the affair from resulting in a wholesale massacre massa-cre The settlement where the riot occurred oc-curred is composed of twontyfiye tojhjrt families who live in small onestory tenement tene-ment houses not more than 10 by 29 feet square the men mostly being employed in the smelters and foundries located in the neighborhood The melee grew out of a longstanding jealousy in the settlements over a young Polish woman Alice Falka who yesterday morning left the settlement on the south side to spend the day with a rival colony on the north side In honor of her visit sEvERAL KEGS OF DEER WERE TAPPED Which caused frequent brawls during the afternoon and until late in the evening when the mob became beastly intoxicated In the house adjoinin the one where the fifteen or twenty men were celebrating the visit of the girl lived Mr and Mrs Knaudo j and rivals These neighbors prepared to celebrate the christening of their eight months child and had invited a number of their friends and also laid in a supply of beer garlic and other delicacies of their race The Knaudo crowd reached an advanced ad-vanced state of intoxication by midnight and one of them going to the front pavement pave-ment at this hour accidentally met a member mem-ber from the other house situated not over ten or fifteen feet away A fight immediately immedi-ately ensued The Knaudo crowd were reinforced re-inforced from those inside and drove their rivals into their den when the wildest scene took place Chairs tables and bedsteads were broken up and the pieces were used as I weapons to pound each other over the head Many were knocked senseless and trampled under foot until life was almost extinct The plastering was torn from the walls and every glass in the house smashed until it looked like it had been BAKED WITH CIliATE AND CANNISTEB After a bitter fight the Knaudo crowd were driven to their house where the same scene was transacted Several shots were fired and a Pole named Riboritch was fatally shot Others were seriously injured The police in the neighborhood attempted to quiet the disturbance and make arrests but were driven away by the mob Reinforcements Reinforce-ments were sent for and the Central Station patrol wagon immediately responded Twelve policemen armed with Winchesters I surrounded tho houses The mob at first attempted to resist but when met by tho blue coats ready to fire into them they fell back and made but little resistance Several Sev-eral trips were made by the patrol until nearly thirty had been arrested and jailed It is supposed that many escaped But one j or two prisoners can speak English They are ragged dirty spattered with blood and dirt and have the appearance of the lowest type of humanity They were sent to Denver Den-ver a week ago direct from Huugary Poland Bohemia and other parts of Europe and without doubt belong to that class whose only argument is the dynamite bomb |