People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — NEGROES CAN RETURN. [ARTICLE]

NEGROES CAN RETURN.

Trouble at Spring Valley, 111., Said to Be Over. Spring Valley, HL, Aug. B.—State troops, for the present at least, will not be ordered in this town. Peace has been declared, and the miners of Spring Valley yesterday adopted resolutions declaring that all men were free and equal, and that the negroes could return. Colonel Bayle, Gov. Altgeld's representative, was Informed by Sheriff Clark, Superintendent Dalzell and other citisens, miners and public officers, that no one had as yet been killed. All admitted, however, that 100 citizens, all colored, had been driven from their homes by a mob composed of Italian, Polish, Bavarian and Hungarian miners. Many shots were fired, and some colored miners were wounded and brutally beaten in the melee, These negroes, men, women and children, had been assailed and ruthlessly driven from their homes and forced to go to Seatonville. As to this outrage all were agreed, but that any one had been killed or fatally wounded born coal company officials, miners and officers of the law denied.