Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 November 1898 — MORE RIOTING AT PANA. [ARTICLE]

MORE RIOTING AT PANA.

Whites nnd Negroes at the Springside Shaft Fight Buttles. Union white miners and negroes employed at the Springside coal mines, Pana, 111., fought two brisk battles Thursday, but nobody was seriously hurt. Troop B of Bloomington turned out immediately with a Gatling gun, but firing had ceased, so the soldiers remained in waiting at the barracks. The second battle broke out in tlie same section of tlie city thirty minutes after the first encounter between strikers and negroes. Fully 500 shots were exchanged. Shortly after the second battle a squad of troop B made double quick to Springside, but it arrived too late to make any arrests of participants in the battle. Tlie citizens and property owners of Pana have made a plea that Gov. Tanner retain tlie troops of cavalrymen in Pana indefinitely or send more to replace them.