Show RIOT HIOT AT ST LOUIS ELECTION three mn men wounded lao shots tin fit and nd ballot box stolen at st louis louia monday more mora then than shots were fired cred a sergeant of police and two degrees were wounded and a ballot box stolen in the course of a riot about the second district polling place of the fourth ward nt at twelfth and nd linden streets it was only after a riot cull call had brought captain clely with forty police and riot guns to the scene that a semblance of order was restored even then the streets were ivere filled with negroes and some white men all of 0 whom were ivere armed many of them intoxicated and looking for trouble not a ballot was cast there during the day the wounded were oer sergeant geant quinlivan of tho the fourth district shot in the leg george monroe shot in the arm fred jones shot in the leg the trouble had been brewing all afier afternoon noon the tinker judges disagreed with the wells men as to the advisability of opening the back door of the polling place one claimed that the other had a host of heelers in wait ing a and d it if the door were opened these men would press in to cause contusion confusion and prevent their opponents from voting A third faction asserted that both tit the a other factions were jockeying to prevent any voting whatever because they said the ward was overwhelmingly for their leader noonan the judges being unable to agree no voting was done finally a shot was fired supposedly from the revolver of arthur carnicer cardiner Car dicer IL a negro |