People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1894 — RESULTED FATALLLY. [ARTICLE]

RESULTED FATALLLY.

A Woman Die* from the Result of a Coll«lt» Prank. Ithaca, N. Y., Feb. 22.—Tuesday night this village passed through another annual class riot. The occasion was the Cornell freshmen banquet at the old Masonic hall on Tioga street About 6:30 p. m. the freshmen con- | gregated on the campus and started ! down the hill to have their feast When I they reached the hall where they were j to hold their banquet they were met by 400 or 500 sophomores, “townies” and seniors, who proceeded to prevent their entrance to the building. Potatoes, eggs, stones and what not fletv fast and thick. In the melee two of the rushers were seized by the policemen and quickly dragged to the j station, where they were locked up. While the multitude was followinp the officers tryinp to effect a rescue of the prisoners the freshmen quickly stole up the stairs and held their spread, after ‘which they indulged in toasts and collepe songs. Later the sophomores played a dastardly trick on the freshmen. Noxious odors filled the air and the hall was emptied. Several were carried out insensible. The freshmen announced that their enemies had placed asafoetida in their food and generated chlorine gas about the halL A corps of physicians was summoned. Prompt efforts were made to resuscitate the asphyxiated students by the application of ammonia aud stimulants. Miss Jackson, a colored woman, who acted as cook for the students, died at 12:20. She was taken from the hall in- j sensible to the residence of Dr. Lock- I ery, where she expired. Several waiters were overpowered and others are \ almost wild with pain. The hall is in : possession of the police who are ran- ; sacking the corridors and side rooms to find the source of the gas. It is now known that the sophomores j obtained possession of a side room and 1 placed a generator of the deadly gas 1 it was connected with the ban- ■ quet hall by means of rubber tubes. ' Threats of lynching are openly made, ' one man exclaiming that he would help 1 string up the perpetrators.