Show FIERCE BATTLE FOUGHT GUT HI OVER S1 STLOUIS LOUIS ELECTION LECTION Over vet Shots Are Fired and Three Persons ej ons Ill eluding a Police Sergeant Are Judges Take Part in Shooting Not a Vote is Cast in the I Entire En tire District St Louis Mo Io Fob Mor than 60 shots fire l a sergeant of or po police poUce polIce lice Uce and two wore were wounded and anda a ballot box stolen In the course cour e of a ariot arIot ariot riot about the Second district polling place of or the Fourth ward at Twelfth Tw and Linden streets early this evening It was vas only after a a riot call cau had brought Captain C Kiely with forty po police poUce police lice Uce and riot guns guIS to the tho scene that a semblance of order was restored Even then the streets were filled fined with ne negroes negroes negroes groes and some white men all aU of whom were armed many mony of them intoxicated and looking for trouble Not a a ballot was cast there during the day The wounded were Sergeant Quinlivan of the Fourth dis die district district dietrict shot in the tho leg George Monroe in the arm aria Fred Jones Jonea slit in the leg Judges Have a Quarrel The The trouble had been brewing all afternoon The Tinker judges dis die disagreed disagreed agreed with the Wells men as to the advisability of opening the back door of the polling place One NOne claimed that the other had a host of heelers in wait waiting waitIng ing and if the door were opened these I j I men would press Jn to cause confusion I and prevent their opponents from front vot voting voting voting ing A third faction fa ti n asserted that both the other factions were jockeying to prevent any voting whatever because e ethey they said the ward was overwhelming overwhelmingly ly for their leader Noonan The judges being unable Ie to agree gree no DO voting was a adone done Finally a shot was fired supposedly from front the revolver of Arthur Gardiner a a negro As soon as the shot rang out the street about the polling place became beca mt the scene of a fusillade Every man mandrew mandreW mandrew drew one or two revolvers Judge Fires at Judge John Ryan ran out into the street and amid shot squarely at a negro ad advancing advancing upon the booth gun in hand The rhe police pollee under Sergeant Quinlivan rushed upon the bolder rioters at attempting attempting tempting to disarm them It was w while he was vas arresting George Monroe ho had resisted the attempt to disarm him that Sergeant Quinlivan was shot De Dc Detective Detective McGrath ran to his assistance a disarmed the negro and in the midst l 1 1st of a scattering fire wrapped a band hand handkerchief kerchief about the sergeants wounded leg to stop the flow of blood from a si sty on ered emed artery Ten policemen were on ott the Ule spot w i th ith thin in a few moments and succeeded su in quelling the riot and dispersing the JOO 0 negroes who had figured most prominently prominently neatly in the affray After order had bad been restored it I was found that the ballot box had been stolen Every judge and clerk had been P Pat at the windows or front door do r holding the fort Some one had slipped sUpped in the th back way and taken the box from be he behind hind them The upshot was that no votes were polled today in the Second district of the Fourth ward |