Pana Massacre

When

10 Apr 1899

Kind

Riot

Deaths

7

Coordinates

39.39° N, 89.08° W

Description

1899 killing and riot in Pana, Illinois

Placed at the area, not an exact site.

1899 riot in Pana, Illinois

The Pana riot, or Pana massacre, was a coal mining labor conflict and also a racial conflict that occurred on April 10, 1899, in Pana, Illinois, and resulted in the deaths of seven people. It was one of many similar labor conflicts in the coal mining regions of Illinois that occurred in 1898 and 1899.

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