Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-15

ney, Charles C. Shamel, OF Taylorvill'
to represent the state in the dlfiicultJ
but the military officials gave him bu
littleattention. Deputy Doyle, OF aylor
vile, head deputy under SheriE Dow
ney, demanded his legal rights as al
official to give proper protection to In
special deputies, but his demands were
given but little attention.
Some OF the Victims.
Frank Coburn was killed by bullet
from the Penwell tower. He was the To-
cal agent for the Milwaukee Brewing
company, and was at his bottling house
near the Penwell coal mine when the
general firing began. He stepped into
the doorway and stood with his hands
In his pockets, looking down the street
when a bullet from the Penwell tipple
killed him. Frank Landsworth is a
grocer's delivery boy and was deliver
ing goods near the Penwell mine and
was wounded in the forehead, but not
fatally. Carrie Felix, waitress at the
Harrison hotel, was shot in the side by
a bullet that entered the kitchen win
dow from the Pana mine tipple. Albert
Nickers was wounded while standing
on the Big Four station platform.
Farmer George Kimball was wounded
just as he stepped from Big Four
train. Cyrus Strickler was struck by
a bullet while sitting in the house of a
neighbor. Cass Proffitt was wounded in
the street. The four unknown negro
women were killed in the Flatham dis
trict adjacent to the Pana mines. The
dead unknown negro woman was also
killed in this district. Mrs. Henriot was
wounded while in her dooryard near the
Pana mine.
Rumors of More Deaths.
The report is general that several
miners were dead and dying in fields
near Mine No. 2 of Pana Coal company,
having been killed by stray bullets, but
owing to darkness it is impossible to
ascertain facts regarding report. This
impression is given credcnce also by the
fact that dead negro miner was found
after mghtfall in the road near Shaft
No. 2. The firing in that vicinity was
general, and it is not improbable that a
search will result in other bodies being
discovered. Coroner Z. L. Bradley has
from Taylorville, and the first
inquest will be held to-day over the
body of Frank Coburn, who is the son of
ex-Sheriff Ira Coburn.
1t is currently rumored that Mayor
Warren Penwell son of the operator
of the Penwell mine, was in the Pen
well mine during the time of the shoot
ing and it is said he remained there all
afternoon and night. 1t is certain that
at midnight he was not at home and
had not been seen on the street during
the day or night. The feeling against
him is bitter. AT one o'clock this morn
ing Adjt. Gen. Reece ordered Capt. Mil
Ter, of company b, Bloomington, to re.
port at Pana Immediately to Col. Culver
with his entire command
At one o'clock a. m. the town was per.
fectly quiet and deserted. A unior
miner was occasionally seen on the
street, but to all appearances all the
citizens had gone to their homes and
the town was left wholly to the soldiers
Tanner Takes Action.
Springfield, ILL.,, April 11.-Gov. Tan
ner, at five o'clock Monday evening
issued a proclamation declaring that q
state of riot existed at Pana and plac
ing the town under military control
After giving the facts in regard to the
occupation of Pana by state troops last
fall the governor reissued his martial
law proclamation of November 81, 1898
Three companies of the Fifth regiment
&C of Springfield, Il of Taylorville and
II of Decatur-left for Pana at night
and Col. Culver, who is in command oi
the troops with company C, took a spe.
cial train over the Baltimore & Ohio
Southwestern railroad at 4:4O p. m
Adjt. Gen. Reese accompanied the