The Waco daily examiner. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 187?-1888, 1885-09-05
CHARRED CHINESE.
Wyoming Miners Attack and
Slaughter Some Chinese
W0rkmen.
The Charred Remains of several
CelestiCals Found Among
the Ashes.
Military Aid Asked For and
Three Com Panies of Reg
uDars will 90.
THE CHINAMEN WENT.
wyoming Miners solve the Chimes

Problem.
Rock SPRINGS, Wy, September A.
Yesterday, for the first time IN
many years, there was not China
man in Rock Springs, except the dead
and wounded. The five or six hun
dred who have been at work in the
mines here, have been driven out and
nothing but heaps of smoking runs
mark the spot where Chinatown
stood. The feeling against the Chi
ncse has been growing stronger all
summer. The fact that the white men
have been turned OFF the sections, and
that hundreds of white men were
Chinese were being shipped in by the
car load and given work, strengthened
the feeling against them. 1t needed
but little to incite the feeling into an
active crusade against the Chinese
and precipi,ate the little battle. On
Wednesday,, at No. mine, about one
mile north of town, through some
Observation-Disclosures Cinnamon took
n room in the mine belonging to two
white men, and when the white men
came thoy ordered them out, they
would not go and
A FIGHT ENsUED
which was participated in by all the
whites and Cinnamon in the place,
The Cinnamon were worsted In the
fight and four of them badly wounded;
one OF whom has died. The white
miners then came out, armed them
selves with firearms and notified the
men in the other three mines to come
out In the afternoon. Meantime all
was excitement in Chinatown. A
flag was hoisted a. warning and the
Chinese working in different parts OF
the camp fled to their quarters. After
dinner the saloons closed and no
liquor has been sold since then.
| The miners gathered on Front
street. about one hundred of them
armed with guns, revOlyers, hatchets
aud knives, and
PROCEEDED TOWARD CHINATOWN.
committee OF three wafhing- the
Cinnamon to leave in an hour. This
they agreed to do and started to pack
up but in about half an hour the
white men grew impatient and adj
vanced upon the Chinese quar- crs
shouting and firing their guns in the
air. Without Offering resistance, the
Chinese fled with whatever the!
could snatch up, to the hill
about nine miles east of The
town, the miners firing al then
MS they went. Soon Il blacl
smoke was seen issuing from the peal
of house in Hong Kong, then from
another, aud very soon eight or ten
the largest of the houses were i
flames.
HALF CHoCLED WITH FIRE
and smok o numbers of Chinamcn,cam
rushing from the burning buildin
with blankets aud bed quilts ovt
their heads, to protect thenselv,
from stray rifle shots; and they 10
lowed their rctreating brothers ini
the hills ut the top of their speed.
laundry in town was next visited al
. the offensive inmates shot dead. A
, the employers of the coal departmel
of the railroad were ordered TO lea
town, which they did {
the evening train. Duril
the night all of the Chine
houses In town, nearly fifty, we
: burned to the ground aud numb
of Cinnamon who were within fl
from the burning buildings. The lig
of Thursday morning revealed
SOME TERRIBLE SIGHTS.
In the smoaking cellars of II
Chinese houses, the blackened bod
of six Cinnamon were seen; Thu
Others were In the cellar of anotl
and four more bodies were tou
- near by. From the position of so
Slit would seem as though they i
begun to dig a hole to hide themsel'
but the fire overlook them, burni
the extremities to crisp a
leaving the upper port
of their bodies untouch
w. Az the east of Chinatown anotl
ng body was fonnd charred by the fiaI
and mutilated by hogs. The sn
nts that arose from the smoking ri
Try was horribly
SUGGESTIVE OF BURNING FLESH
IN Further east were the bodies of I
more, shot down In their flight.
for coroner's jury was summoned, VIII
,ot after examining the bodies, CAV
III verdict that eleven Chinese hvd b
nd burned to death and five shot by
'Js ties unknown to the jury. A nun
NJ were found seriously wounded,
MS how many more may still be woun
ms. out IN the hills is unknown. Ia
ON numbers OF Chinese have
picked up by the trains going
our aud number of cars of provls
'en- have been sent out Tor them.
our rumored that the Mormon mlnel
onr camp are TO be ordered out, bu
oilt- action is this direction has yet
taken. The miners here are emit
eral nnorganized in the crusade an
though large number of then
knights Of Labor, the move wa
made under its direction. Tho
ers have not been working
Wednesday and business is al