The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-10-01

Pana, Ills, Sept 30.-Sixty- EIGHT
members of battery B, Galesburg, ar
rived here this afternoon with Spring
field rifles, side arms and two gatling
guns, Captain c. c. Craig commander
in-chief A fiat car behind the engine
held both gatling guns, fully manned,
ready to fire in case of attack. The
sheriff displayed his star, but was not
allowed to board the train
! Last night was a terrorizing one for
the people of Pana. Two-thirds of the
residences were unoccupied. Each
house occupied contained a group of
families. In some cases all the resi-
dents of an entire block spent the dark
hours in one home, armed, terrorized
and awaiting attacks expected to be
made on their homes by the negroes
imported from Alabama.
| All night the striking union miners,
reinforced by brother miners from
other towns, armed with shotguns and
rifles, paraded the streets or lay in
ambush on housetops and in alleys
awaiting the coming of the blacks from
Springside and Pennwell stockades,
who had announced an intention to
march into the city and drive out the
whites. But the deputy sheriffs were
successful in keeping the negroes with
| in the StockadeS.
Today, in response to Sheriff Coburn's
urgent appeal, battery B of Galesburg
and two companies of Hamilton's sons
of veterans were on the way to Pana.
They are, by the governors instruc-
lions, to protect lives of citizens and
their property, but under no considera-
ton to assist the mine owners in oper-
ating the mines with imported labor.
Many visiting miners, heavily armed,
arrived here today and later, with 200
local miners, left the city for Shelby
county, three miles distant, to inter
| cept a Baltimore & Ohio train, said to
be conveying so negro miners to Pana
to take union mems places.
TRAIN HELD UP.
st. Louis, Sept 3O.-A special to the
Post-Dispatch from Pana, Ills, says:
Two hundred Pana miners held up a
special Baltimore & Ohio train at the
line of Shelby and Christian counties
at o'clock this afternoon The train
was carrying 90 imported negroes for
work in the Pana mines. At the point
of guns the miners compelled the ne
groes to unload, and started to march
them to Tower hill to ship them back
to Washington, Ind.
The miners had handkerchiefs over
their faces when they held up the
train, which was delayed but a few
/ moments. Sheriff Cartright is said to
be on the way to Tower hill with a
posse to release the negroes. A clash
beteen the miners and deputies is ex-
pected
Walter Putterbaugh who brought
the negroes from the south, left the
train at Flora, being fearful of a hold
up, and knowing that he would suffer.
rough treatment at the hands of the
miners.
GOVERNOR TANNERS ATTITUDE.
Springfield Sept 3O.-Regarding a
report that he had refused to send 200
rifles to the sheriff at Pana, Governor
Tanner today said:
II never refused; on the contrary,
when the sheriff last Saturday made a
requisition for 200 rifles, 1 forwarded by
rush order the 200 rifles and 1000
rounds of ammunition. Yesterday I re-
ceived an urgent telegram from the
sheriff, asking for troops. After sew
eral telephone conversations with him.
/ became so impressed with the impor-
lance and needs of the situation that I
ordered the Galesburg battery and two