The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-04

Kansas City, Mo, April 3-The
American Protective association and
the Catholics came together in a
bloody conflict at the polls today. 1t
can not be stated which side is respon-
sible for the fray, as each side charges
the other with being the full cause of
all the trouble
More than 200 shots were exchanged
between the combatants in less than
that many seconds, and when the fir
ing ceased, the following named were
Lying dead dying or injured on the
pavement:
Mike Callahan, city sidewalk inspec-
tor, shot through the right side; ia
tally injured.
Harry Fowler, laborer, shot through
the back.
Con Brosnahn, contractor, shot
through the kidneys
jerry Pate, deputy constable, shot in
the face; wounded.
Patrick Fleming, shot in the left
shoulder.
John McGovern. laborer, shot
through right arm.
They Come with Guns.
The riot was the elimination of bit
ter feeling, which had been manifested
by action and words ever since the
polls opened in the morning. The two
antagonistic elements were solidly di-
vided in their choice for the mayor.
The aggressive support that each side
gave to its candidate during one of the
hottest campaigns ever known in this
city, engendered a strong sentiment
of bigotry
! 1t was, therefore, in no amicable
mood that the workers of the respec-
i tive factions came together at the diff
ferent polling places throughout the
city, and that these workers came eX-
pecting trouble to occur before the day
passed, is apparent from the number
i of deadly weapons that were in the
riot when the first shot was fired.
J The riot, which resulted so seriously,
was the climax of a series of smaller
riots that took place at other points
earlier in the day between the same OPP
posing religious factions. This riot
took place on the southwest boulevard,
very close to police station No. 3, and
those who took part in it, had been
heated to a fighting temper by reports
that had been hourly arriving at the
station of brawls at other polling
places.
Only an hour before, it was known
that John Cooley, a stonemason, was
shot in the back and forehead by Will
liam Henry Walker. at D voting place
at the corner of Fifth and Campbell
Streets and that the row was directly
due to a fiery debate between the two
men regarding the principles of lie
a. p. A, to which Gsoiey was Vio-
ilcnt}y opposed. That Cooley was II }.
instantly killed, was due simply to the
fact hat the pistol used was a mere
toy of 22-calibre.
COnstabIes Caused II.
The A. P. A which supported Web
Ister Davis, the Republican candidate
for mayor, had their own workers at
the different polling places, and they
distributed in some precincts their
own tickets. bearing their candidate ' s
name and decorated with the Amer
lean flag.
. Jim Pryor, a Fifth ward politician,
antagonistic to the A. P. A, who sup
ported Frank Johnson, the labor union
and Democratic candidate, was active
at the head of fifty constables which
he got Justice LatshaW to appoint last
night. 1t is said that the constables
were, many of them, irresponsible
characters and were solely the cause
of all the trouble Consequently. there
; were loud threats of mobbing them
|; before they were got to headquarters
: after the bloody riot was over.
1t is claimed that one of Pryor's fol
lowers fired the first shot. That one
was Mike Callahan, and he was killed
the next moment
Then the battle began.
The deputy constables at this polling
booth and the workers of all the polit
zeal factions crowded together in q
solid mass, about 100 strong, and every
= one of them seemed to be armed
For a minute or two, the discharge
of weapons sounded like a volley Of
musketry by a regiment. Hundred:
of citizens gathered at every point OF
: vantage to witness the battle, which
however, was of short duration These
, on-lookers trembled with wild excite
: ment. Many of the residents alons
the boulevard added to the genera
}. feeling of terror by leaning from thei
! windows, shouting and gesticulatin,
I wildly.
= Bluecoats Appear.
e In less than five minutes from tn
t time the first shot was fired however
L the blUecoats from station No. ha
: appeared on the scene and Quoted tn
: disturbance. With their first approach
the fighting workers ceased hostilitie
e and made a quick effort to hide thei
: weapons.
e Pryor's men are claiming that Gala
: han was an innocent victim. They as
0 Sert that II Was Jerry Pate, an A. p.
: man, who fred the first shot and tina
: that was the shot that killed Callahan
Pate was serving as a constable havin
s been appointed by a Westport justice t
: serve a warrant for the arrest of job
e Pryor, Jim Pryor, his son, and Bel
d Pryor, for an alleged felonious assault
s on q citizen earlier in the day. He an
# Callahan met, had some words, an
n either one or the other, fired the she
j. that commenced the conflict
if Pryors SIDE of the story gets som
: color from the fact that Harry Arthu
e who is. however. one OF Pryors follow
If ers, says he himself is the man ths
shot Pate in the face. According I
this story he was standing on the bride
that crosses o. K. Greek, close to Ii
lscene Of the riot, when Jerry Pate an
ianother man came on the other end
$ the bridge in a buggy with four me
e running behind him. When Pate reacl
II ed the spot where Arthur was stant
/ ing he iumned out of his buggy wit
d a gun in his nanS and grabbing hol
i of Harry McGovern, Eaid:
D. Here's one of the men we are afte
d I've got a warrant for your arrest"
e Il went up to Pate and said: 'Yc
lean not take him. Jim Todd steppe