Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — EVANSVILLE MINERS RIOT. [ARTICLE]

EVANSVILLE MINERS RIOT.

Non-Unlonista Attacked—The Mayor Forbids Parade. Rioting and disorder prevailed at two of the Evansville coal mines Wednesday. As the colored non-union miners came from the First, avenue mines they were met by a crowd of boys who carried tin cans. Several stones were hurled at them. When a block away from the mine the miners pulled their revolvers and opened fire on the crowd. No one was hurt. Several hundred people gathered and the police dispersed the crowd and escorted the miners home. Nearly 1,000 striking miners, their families and sympathizers were at the John Ingle mine when the colored miners quit work. Both the strikers and non-union men were armed. Maybr Akin issued a proclamation forbidding the miners to parade.