St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-04
E0UR MEN INSTANTLY KILLED.
4 Hundred Shots Fired at the
~ Kansas City Polls. -.
EMO OF A BITTER CAMPAIGN
The A. P. A. Order Supported
y the Republican Ticket.
THREATS or A FRENZiED MOB.

! KANSAS CITY, MO-, April S.-Ihe
American Protective Association and
the Catholics came toget her III a bloody
conflict at the polls in this city today.
IL ca mot be stated which side is re-
sponsibie for the affair, as the partisans
of each loudly charged the other as
being the full cause of all the trouble.
More than hundred shots were ex-
| changed between the combatantS in
less than that many seconds, and when
the firing ceased the following were
lying dead, dying or injured on the
pavement.
| KILLED.
| MIKE CALLAHAN. city ditch ia
spector; shot through the right side.
I HARRY FOWLER, laborer, shot
! through the back.
| CON BROSNAHAN, 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 the right arm.
| The riot was the elimination of bit
ter feeling, which had been manifested
! by action and words ever since the polls
opened this morning. The two antago-
nistic elements were soIidly divided in
their choice of candidates for mayor.
The aggressive support that each side
gave to it's candidate during one of the
/ hottest campaigns ever knowlf i'll this
| city engendered 4 strong sentiment of
(; bigotry. 1t was. therefore, in no ami
! able mood that the workers of tile re-
sDective factions came together at the
different polling places throughout the
city, and that these workers came eX
pectlng trouble to occur before the day
was over was apparent from the num-
Der of weapons that were drawn when
t the first
[ !, PISTOL SHOT WAS FIRED.
| . The riot that resulted SO fatally was
| the climax of series of smaller riots
/ that took place at other points earlier i'll
| the day between the same opposing re-
! Iigious factions. This riot took place on
/ the Southwest boulevard in the Fifth
! ward. very close to Police Station No.
3, and those who took part in it had
been heated to the fighting temper
by reports that had been hourly
driving at the station of brawls at
other polling places. Only one hour be-
| fore it was known that John Cody, a
stone mason, was shot i'll the back and
| forehead by William Henry Walker. at
a voting place at the corner of Fifth
| and Campbell streets, and that the row
twas directly due to a fiery debate be-
tween the two men regarding the
I principles of the American Protective
association. to which Cody was violently
opposed. That Cody was not instantly
| killed was due simply to the fact that
| the pistol used was mere toy OF %
| caliber
| The American Protective association,
which supported 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 candi-
! dates name and decorated with the
| American flag. jim Prior, Fifth ward
! politician, antagonist to the A. P. A..
who supported Johnson, the labor aud
! factional Democrat candidate, was act
i've at the head OF fifty constables which
| he got Justice LatScilaw to appoint last
night. 1t was said by some that these
| cOnStableS were many of them ire
4 sponsible characters and were solely
the cause of all of the trouble. Conse-
quently there were loud
THREATS OF MOBBING
them before they got to headquarters
after the bloody riot was over. 1t is
claimed that one of Prior's followers
! fired the first shot. That one was Mike
| Callahan. and lie was a dead man the
next moment. Then the battle began.
The deputy eonstableS at this polling
| booth and the workers of ali the politi-
cal factions crowded together in solid
I mass, about 100 strong, and every one of
| them seemed to be armed. For minute
| OF two the discharge of weapons sound
Z ed like discharge of muSketry by a reg
| iment. Hundreds of cltiZenS gathered
at point of vantage to witlicSi the battle,
| which. however, was Of short Iteration.
| These onloOkerS trembled with excite
! ment. Many of the residents alon g the
! boulevard added to the general feeling
of terror by leaning from their windows,
shouting and gesticulating wildly. In
! less than five minutes from the time the
/, first shot was fired. however. the blue
coats from Station No. 3 had appeared
upon the scene and quieted the disturb
/ ance. With their first approach the
| fighting political workers ceased HOSTILE
| ties and made quick effort to hide
| their weapons.
lPrlor's men are claiming that Gala
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