The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-24
TIE WAR IN TENNESSEE.
Miners Attack the Stockn1es as Oliver
sprinEs-Capture oY the Guards and the
Militia Reinforcenerts.

Mirera Attack the Stocka1es as Olive
sprinEs-Capture oH the Guards and the
Militia Reinforcenents.
! NASHVILLE, Tenn, August 16.-A,
attack of the mob Of miners on th,
stockades at Oliver Springs occurred
this morning. Two guards were fatal,
injured and eight miners were shot
The miners were finally repulsed.
Oliver Springs is little mining towr L
in Anderson County. 1t is on the
Walden's Ridge road. The defenses
consist of blockhouse and about forty
guards. About breakfast time the
| miners came to the stoc6ade. They
demanded the surrender of the place.
"Come take US, and be God id w was
the answer sent by Superintendent
Farris. Fire was at once opened.
: Seven hundred miners on one side
glanced down the barrels of their
weapons, and streaks of fame ieaped
from the muzzles as the leaden mes
sengers sped toward the blockhouse.
The guards manfully answered, and
the sharp cracks of the rifles struck
terror to the hearts of the assailants.
A nag of truce was raised. Capt. Ferris
respected it, and called to the leader to
come and talk with him. Both sides
rested on their arms while the wounded
were removed.
In the meanwhile the Governor was
notified, and he ordered Col. Wooliord
of the Third Infantry to collect his men
and call for volunteers. At Knoxville
two companies Of infantry will join the
regulars.
The people in the neighborhood are
all in sympathy with the peace dis
turbers. Troops are now marching
from Hartman to Oliver Springs.
It is said that Governor Buchanan
will 60 to Coal Creek tonight, and will
then declare the lease system void, on
he ground that it is illegal.
A SHAMEFUL SURRENDER.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August H.
The most conflicting and sensational
rumors have been coming from the
Anderson County district all day and
it required some discrimination to
select the reliable or authentic from
wild statements. The mornings news
crystallized into the statement that the
stockade at Oliver Springs had been
reinforced by twenty-eight Knoxville
militiamen under command OF Major
Chandler. Later in the forenoon it
was certain that the stockade had been
captured, along with the guards and
soldiers who were holding it, but not
until the arrival of the two hundred
convicts in Knoxville at 8 p. m. was
the shameful story of the surrender
known.
The camp doctor, whose Office was
not in the stockade but in the village,
went into the stockade and told the
warden in charge that it was folly to
resist the miners, who numbered eight
teen hundred, and were prepared to at
tack and capture the stockade. This
brought about akconference between
the miners leaders, and the warden,
resulting in the twenty-eight soldiers
and eighteen guards surrenderiDg to
the miners without firing shot. The
miners at once took possession, ran the
convicts out to the railroad, loaded
them on train with their guards, and
started them to Knoxville.
The miners have gone in the direc-
ton of Coal Creek, where they will be
Joined by several hundred more, and
an attack on the military there may
occur at any moment, and if it does
there will be a bloody reception for
them.
The State is thoroughly aroused, and
men of all classes are ready to join the
law and order party to aid the military
in restoring order even at the cost of a
few lives.
Sheriff Holloway, of Knox County,
has called for five hundred citizens Of
Knoxville to 60 to the relief Of the
soldiers at Coal Greek. This is under
authority of an order to that effect
from Governor Buchanan. Petitions
have been wired to the Governor ask
ing him to call on the General Govern
ment for aid. An additional detach-
ment of troops, from thirty-five to
fifty, will leave here tonight to REIN
force the companies Of the Sd regiment
now in the field. All account agree
that the mob Of miners is marching to
Coal Greek and will attack the stocks
ade. Major Chandler made his escape
from Oliver Springs and reported to
Col. Woolford at Hartman.
The leaders of Mondays mob that
destroyed the stockade at lnman will
resist arrest. A prominent miner says
that the men wanted will fight to the
last and will not be taken. The deputy
sheriff, with twelve men, attempted to
make capture to-day, but was forced
to return for more men. He says he
will have the leaders, backed as he is
by Judge Moon.
The sheriff OF this county is in receipt
Of the following order:
Sheriff Of Hamilton County: You
are ordered to summon five hundred
men as posse and proceed at once to
Coal Greek, where an armed mob ex-
lists, and aid in dispering the same.
The posse will be armed by you as best
you can, or as usual in such cases.
JonN P. BUCHANAN, Governor.