-Streets gradually fill with people.
-Outside of Fontana, 251 State St., several costumed revelers are frisked and loaded into a police van. There were 250 such arrests Saturday night and early Sunday morning.
-A few people are handcuffed and herded into vans by the police officers. The offenses are varied, including assault and disorderly conduct. Possession of glass bottles is also a common offense, and the police dump bottles of vodka and Mike's Hard Lemonade into the drains.
-Crowds swarm outside of Qdoba, 548 State St., and several other shops on the north side of State Street, rendering entry difficult. Sirens go off about every 20 minutes, as the police, fire department and paramedics respond to calls.
-An estimated 75,000 are on the street at the peak of the night. The crowd is less friendly now, shoulder-to-shoulder and pushing through other people.
-A large crowd amasses in front of The Towers, 502 N. Frances St. People in the crowd are jumping up and down with their arms in the air, index fingers extended.
The crowd starts singing and throwing beer cans and pieces of costumes in the air, assuming the frenetic energy of a mosh pit. People are held up on shoulders and body-passed.
Four policemen wait nearby on horseback. Two of them ride into the middle of the crowd. The crowd appears to spook the horses.
The police blow whistles, but no one can distinguish their whistles from the whistles of costumed referees reveling on State Street. People in the crowd boo and throw things at the policemen, and an officer smiles and waves.
The crowd quiets down, but when the policemen leave, it erupts with greater frenzy than before. Revelers land on people, injuring them. The two policemen ride into the middle of the crowd and are booed once again.
Their presence does not deter the crowd, which maintains the same level of frenzy. This time, the waving cop smiles again and high-fives individuals in the crowd for a few minutes. Eventually, a costume made of a large corrugated box is pushed into the side of his horse, and the policemen soon retreat.
-The crowds have become tightly packed as more and more people filter onto State Street from bars and house parties. Navigating through the crows has become an issue, but the crowd is not hostile.
-Similar crowds mass up and down State Street. They form, are dispersed if cops are nearby, and disappear. They grow in size and intensity.
-Firemen break down a door next to Old Fashioned Gourmet Popcorn, 105 State St. They are flanked by several policemen and surrounded by a crowd chanting \break it down.""
-State Street is one solid mass of people flowing toward and away from the Capitol. More people are body-passed.
-The pepper spray begins to blow down toward the Capitol. Though sprayed mainly around the 500 block of State Street, it reaches down toward Gorham and leaves people coughing and choking.
