Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1917 — GUARDS SHOOT TWO [ARTICLE]

GUARDS SHOOT TWO

RESIDENTS OF DANVILLE, ILL, ATTEMPT TO GET COAL. Men Wounded While Trying to Obtain y Enough Fuel to Keep Their Fires Going. Danville, 111., Jan. 26.—Two men were shot and wounded here as a ell? max to the attempts of residents of this city to obtain coal to keep their fires going. The wounded men are Lewis Butler and Burley Newman. They were shot down by armed guards of the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. For some time residents of Danville have been facing a coal famine, and to relieve it they have attempted to obtain fuel from trains passing through the city on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois. , . Despite the fact that there are mines south of the town, the residents have found it almost impossible to obtain sufficient coal for their stores and furnaces. The shooting followed an attack by about twenty persons on a train en route from the mines to Chicago. As a result of it feeling ran high here, and another outbreak is feared between railway trainmeh and residents. The railroad company has placed armed, guards on all trains to repel any attacks which may result from the bitterness df feeling which exists. The fact that neither of the two wounded men is hurt seriously has made no difference in the attitude of the townspeople toward the coal shippers and railroads.