Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1885-09-11
cUINEsE KILLED LIKE Dogs
Driven from Mining Town by Wnl'eI :
Five Hundred lIOngolians 9inr'i"s "
the HiIIs-scenes of Outrage

rive Hundred MOngOlaus S'HA''e
the HilIs-scenes Of Outrage
The largest coal mines in the Union faellS
,,,staD, are at Rock Springs, $50 miles west o.
Gbevenne. The company recently imported
io-e,a number Of Chinese to take the places VI
tbe white men employed. The entIe Ioioe u
white miners, about so strong, organizes an,
aiming themselves with shotguns, marc ~ -
Cbi3afown. After firing a volley into the ar
49, roIoaded and ordered the Cinnamon %
iesyya tbe place. The order was ODeyvI
al once. the Cinnamon fleeing to ths ni ils
i;Se drove of sheep, closely pursued py tne
miners who fred several Yolleys at the Iusl-
tiyes with fatal effect. The. -Chlnese quarter
was then set on fire. .-..io,,s mines
THE miners next visited the various nllno1
:, +be camp. unearthed all the Cinnamon ~
worl, therein, and babe them nee lor the sa
I;Tas III the 500 Cinnamon here not one ~
-,oins Seven we're killed outrlgt by the s1OsS
fired bv the miners, and many were 10
II is said that several who were iSeDtS
belpless from disease perlsned III IIle Ell
/ S6driff Younp arrived from Green hlVer VIII
Nose Of deputies but they were TOO late 70
,lo,-a,,t the mob from carrying out theH plals'
/ nm miners quietly dispersed after havlnB
made sure of the departure OF the Celes.I.ls
Fifteen dead Cinnamon have Dee1 olsoo S;o 3; =;
and there are as many HlIlo NE IN the rail-
the ruins Fifty houses belonging 70 VIZ
rosd companv and fifty more owned by emma
I
men were burned: o.. 17-.o,sto, where
the second largest coal mining caihP Vi eAe
Union Pacific is situated, the outbreak was
preconcerted one.
A glance oyer the battle ground reveeF aus .le
fact that many Of the bullets hred AZ .ie i,
inc Cbinamen found their mark. Lyme ~ ~
sI,ae where Chinatown stood were found III
I cjsrred human trunks, while another was io9 y
in Inc sare-bush near by. search resulye9 -
tbe fndi1g of the bodies Of five more Clillle
men killed by rifle sh ITS while neelnB laU s
their pursuers. All were placed IN Pilie LIZ
and buried. Some six or eight otneL ,.o1 W. ~
found seriously wounded anu "o4S
by The railroad officials. ,.or5ic
THE coroner's Jury has rendered q Net ~;
70 the effect that the Cinnamon calile W 'ii D.
death at the hands of parties unhhoW5i' ~ y
ports from along the line OF the ralIo1i ~ .
The effect that Cinnamon have Deeh ~iIL, i e -
small stations east and west OF ;i;',as ,9er
saw that a large number OF the tuBluNes " ~
wounded by Wednesdays attack, anu Vna
many have perished in the hills II Is ieaIe
tI,at h will be found that no less than my Ioi
| their lives when all the returns are III. ,-o
! Another report says: The miners g9tu l5 {,
r on the front streets, about one hu tO1o6ot
them. armed with guns, reviewers, Hatt ~,
and knives. and proceeded toward Chlnal9 ~,
Pefore reaching there they sent cohllilVts
81 three warning the Cinnamon TO leaVe IN !
hour. This they agreed to do, ana s ii,l \,
pack up, but in about half an hou5 Tue WI a
g men grew impatient and advanced u w AZ, y,
Chinese I9h quarters, shouting, and firing the
,ns info the air Without offering resistant
the Chinese fed with what ,' .b t6ey c9 mi
snatch up They fled to the mus aDoat the he
d east of town, the miners firing az tne
s ssS' they he ''f fled The miners then IS :
;, fire to some of the houses, and so'
lie eight or ten of the largest houses 5 NV, WI
n, Iis of Cinnamon came rushing from q
burping buildings, and with blankets and be
ing brothers into the hills. Aiaunary IN oo,
- was next visited and the inoffensiye lnIns,
" we're shot dead. All the employees OF the e
At department of the ilroad were ordered
81 leave leave town which they did on the e GSin
a. train. During the night all OF thS ~ i'm ny
IN Sonses in town numbering nearly hlty, ,, W
dc burned bUp8ed to the ground. number Of Chi
Il men Who were hiding fled from the purni
-, buildings,