The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1899-04-11
DEADLY RIOT At PANA.
Al Least Seven Killed and
Nine Wounded.
TROOPS QUELL DISTURBANCE.


and Blacks Ensues-several Persons Hit
by Stray Bullets.
PANA, Ills, April ia deadly riot,
the most serious disturbance that has
occurred here since the union miners
instigated a strike in April. 1898, was
enacted yesterday, resulting in seven
persons being shot to death and nine
wounded, as follows: The dead:
FRANK CoBURN, citizen.
XAVIER LECoCc, Trenchman, union
miner.
FOUR NEGRO MEN.
ONE NEGRO WOMAN.
The Wounded:
Frank Landsworth, shot in head
Mrs Henriot, shot in left arm.
Will Kuhn, laundryman, shot in legs
and hand.
Cyrus Strickler, shot in back.
Albert Vickers, shot in hand
George Kimball, shou in arm
Henry Stevens, negro, shot in neck.
Cass Proffitt, shot in foot.
Carrie Felix, shot in breast.
The situation quieted down at night
fall and no more trouble was looked for.
Adjutant General Reece. Colonel A. E.
Culver and three companies of infantry
arrived at 6 p. IN. on special trains, and
perfect order was maintained through
out the town from that time on.
Cause of Outbreak.
Miners stood about in groups talking,
but there was no outward manifesto
ton of excitement, although it was eyi-
dent that great indignation existed, es-
pecially among the townspeople, over
the shooting of the citizens and women.
Henry Stevens, negro miner, who has
long been considered leader among
his associates, Is considered the direct
cause of the riot. Stevens has long
cherished hatred for Sheriff Downey
and has openly made threats that he
would kill him on sight. Yesterday he
was on the streets with revolver, say
ing he was looking for Sheriff Downey.
The sheriff came upon him on Locust
street and commanded Stevens to de-
liver the revolver and told him he was
under arrest. Stevens without word
instantly leveled his weapon and fred
at the sheriff, but the bullet went wide.
The sheriff Immediately opened fire on
the negro. Stevens took to his heels
and succeeded in gaining PEN
stand in the entrance. He hesitated
there an instant and then stepped to
the pavement, leveled his revolver down
the street towards his approaching pur-
suer and fired The bullet missed the
deputy and struck Xavier Lecocq who
was standing in the entrance of near
by saloon, squarely in the forehead,
killing him instantly. Stevens then
turned and ran into the Penwell store
and sought refuge behind a counter.
BY this time the streets were rapidly
filing with men, all of whom bore
weapons. Deputy Cheney dashed into
the store, followed by several citizens. A
fusillade of bullets was poured into the
store and Stevens emptied his revolver
at his assailants from behind the
counter The infuriated crowd at the
door continued to fire, and Stevens, see
ing that death was inevitable if he re-.
NAMED behind the counter, made des-
perate dash from his cover to stairway
in the rear of the store. He fell pierced
by six bullets before he had gone 10 feet
One of the bullets had gone through his
neck, another through his back and the
others were of minor nature. The
firing stopped instantly and Sheriff
Downey ran to the aid of the wounded
negro and placed him under arrest
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Meanwhile the riot was raging in
the street. As soon as the first shots
had been fired the whistle of the elec-
tric light plant was blown as signal
for the citizens, the majority of whom
had long ago been sworn in as depu-
ties, to turn out armed and ready to
fight At the same time the miners of
the Pana and Penwell mines which are
located about four blocks distant from
the Penwell store, which is in the cen-
ter of the town, rushed into the tipples
and opened fire on the thronged streets.
the news that Stevens, one of their
number had been shot and arrested,
arousing them to pitch of fury
They shot st any living mark Among
tuSlr NlcUlllS urc tuTee WOnleu, LWO OF
whom are white women wounded and
negro woman dead.
Frank Coburn was standing in the
door of his bottling works, near the
Penwell mine, when bullet from the
Penwell tipple killed him. Frank
Landsworth is a grocer's delivery boy.
! He was delivering goods near the Pen
we'll mine and was wounded in the
forehead. Carrie Felix, waitress Mt
the Harrison hotel, was shot i'll the side
by bullet that entered the kitchen
window from the Pana mine tipple.
Albert Vickers was wounded while
standing on the Big Four station plat
] form. Farmer Kimball was wounded
just as he stepped from Big -Four
train. Cyrus Strickler was struck by q
bullet while sitting in the house of a
neighbor.
The three dead nonunion miners are
James l.. James, Greenyille. S. @.