Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — BATTLE NEAR PEKIN. [ARTICLE]

BATTLE NEAR PEKIN.

Five Hundred Illlnoi* Miner* on the War-Path. A conflict occurred near Pekin, 111., at Little’s coal mines, Wednesday, between a mob of SCO strikers and non-union workmen at present employed. The sheriff and posse remonstrated with the mob tn vain. The strikers charged on the mine. The two Littles and their sons and a colored man retreated to the tower above the shaft and opened fire on the attacking party, some of whom were seen to fall. The fire was returned, and hundreds of shots were fired into&nd through the tower. The Littles hoisted a white flag, but the firing did not eease. The ■haft was set on fire and up shot the flames, It was feared the power house would be fired and the crowd retreated. One colored miner and one of the strikers were killed. Ed Porter and Peter Little, of the besieged party, were probably fatally wounded. Half a dozen others were slightly wounded. It Is feared that a number of miners have been suffocated. The Little mine is one of the few maichlne mines in the district, and the proprietors have been doing the most of the work since the strike.