The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-08-15
THE EARIIGR RRPoRrs.

How. the Miners Fired tho stoekade.
Tho Troops ordor0d out.
NASHVILLE, TRNN., Aug. 14.-Three
hundred aud flfty miners organized
yesterday morning and burned the
stockade at Tracy City mines. Warden
Barton was ordered to put the conyicts
on o train which they had provided,
and they took them away. Barton had
to get out. The conyiets were carried
to Montrangle and they are now await
ing orders from the superintendent Of
prisons.
Governor Buchanan has ordered the
military from Coal Creek.
A stolen switch engine with nine
fat cars, which the miners captured,
has started down the mountain loaded
with conyicts. The train is bound for
Nashville with 800 helpless convicts
abroad, under a guard Of miners armed
to the teeth. Six miners are in
the cab forcing the engineer 70 make
time.
Governor Buchanan has been notified
again aud the adjutant general left inn
mediately for the scene. He has ar
ranged for two hundred militia TO meet
him at Cowan. The other soldiers ut
Coal Creek have been ordered to the
scene, The scheme OF the miners wns
to draw the soldiers away from Coal
. Creek and then release the conyicts
there.
Governor Buchanan says he has
enough Of "this damned foohshnessn .
and Is going to put check to 1t for all
time. ''-
Buchanan has backbone and willfght
the miners it is confidently believed.
Only the most meager Communications
can be had. tits probable general or
der will be sssued to the state militia to
assemble at once at Knoxville.
CINCINNATI, ONO, August 13.-spcc-
ials received here from Coal Creek,
Tenn. indicate that the condition OF
agairs:is such that compromise does not
seem possible. Either the state must
surrender or the miners be crushed.
For several days the signs have pointed
to an outbreak, but the miners laid
their plans SO carefully that when near
1000 Of them, fully armed, suddenly
appeared before the stockade at Tracy
City, where the smallest number Of
guards are, the troops were completely
surprised and resistance useless. The
miners burned the stockade and re-
leased the prisoners. Not a shot was
fred and very little was said. The
strikers had double object in releas-
ing the Tracy City convicts first They
hoped to attack the guards
from Coal Greek, when another band
would have released the conyiets at
that point Then again the possession
OF Tracy City that held the key TO O
wide scope OF mining territory. The
convicts released were placed on train
OF fat cars drawn by a switch engine,
both secured by force. An armed do
tail Of miners accompanied the teain to
sec that the engineer lost no time get
ting out OF the vicinity. Governor
Buchanan was notified Immediately aud
ordered 200 soldiers TO meet him at
OoWan on tho way to Tracy City. he
said he was weary Of this damned
foolishness," and would stop It II 1t
required every militialnan in the state.
The excitement throughout Coal Creek
valley is intouso. Tho miners are armed
and declare no convict shall come back.
II is thought the arrival troops will
precipitate war. The miners hold tho
telegraph Offices and news n meager.
at Tracy City, the latest information
ID that quiet prevails, though much
anxiety Is shown by the miners as 10
what steps the mine owners and state
authorities will take
Governor Buchanan announces his
determination to use every lawful
means in his power to preserve orde.
whom the application in proper and
legal form is mado 70 him by the civil
authorities.