Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1892-08-17
A PITCHED BATTLE.
TENNESSEE MINERS ATTACK AN
OTHER STocKADE.
Two Of the Assaiiauts and Convict Guard
weuoded-NiiitIn Ordered
to tho Scene.
IBr telegraph to tho pIsp.,eh.l

CHATTANOOGA. TIsS., August l6.--A tele-
gram 10 the Times from the Oliver Springs
coal-mines says that 1855 r7inors attacked
the stookade in which tho conyicts were
confined at $40 O'clock this morning, their
purpose being to release the convicts who
have been working in the mines thsro.
The convict guards numbered between
thirty and forty, and were warned of the
attack. They stood TO their guns and the
miners were repulsed. Ono guard was
wounded. and il is believed several miners
were. The miners are besicging the stock
ode, and another attack Is looked for
Oliver Springs and Bricoville are now the
only points in tine State whore conyicts
are employed. At the latter point de-
tachment of soldiers. numbering 100, Is
strongly entrenched, and the body has
been there over year. All the oonvicts
at Inman and Tracy City have boen re-
leased. No further trouble Is reported at
those points.
TROOPS ORDERED OUT.
Latr.-A detachment of troops has
been sent from Hartman to Oliver Springs
10 90 TO the relief of the besieged guards.
They are going over the mountain, seven
teen mics. The guards have one miner
arrested in the stockade, and the miners
say they will rescue him. Governor
Buchanan has ordered out the Third
Regiment Of the Tennessee militia. II
consists Of seven companies. The Colonel.
Gator WoodfOrd. resides here, and Is now
receiving his forces. The courthouse bell
is ringing. aud recruiting officers are out.
The Governor orders the Colonel to charter
q train to carry the troops 10 Oliver
Springs, and the soldiers will move within
an hour. The Colonel has authority TO en-
list men. The enlistment IS now in pro-
greSs.
COMMERCIAL INTERESTS SUFFER.
NASHVILLE. Tenn, August 16.--The libe-
ration of the convicts at Iuman and Tracy
CITY has wrought temporary disaster TO
the commercial interests of South Pitts
burg. The three immense furnaces ope-
rated by the tennessee Coal, Iron, and
Railroad Company, and employing i5g
men, banked their fires this morning aud
will not resume work until affairs between
the company and the State are settieu.
The South Pittsburg Pipe-W Works have
also shut down for the present. The pipe
works are dependent uDon the tennessee
Coal Company for the coke used III their
furnaces, and are forced TO suspend tenn
porarily. Affairs in the Valley are IN great
turmoil.
BLOODY CONTEST INEVITABLE.
KNOXVILLE. Tenn, August 1G.-Tho
liberation of convicts at Tracey City and
Inman has set the East Tennessee mining
section on fire with excitement. and o
bloody fight seems inevitable AT Oliver
Springs and Coal Creek. Tho latter was
the scene of the trouble last summer.
and company of militia has been
on duty there ever since. For some
time past the relations between the
soldiers and miners have been strained,
and shots have been exchanged between
the pickets and men supposed ID be
miners. Houses have been shot into. This
morning at O'clock al attack was made
on the stockade at Oliver Springs by the
miners. and two or three guards were
killed aud several miners killed aud
wounded. This afternoon several COM
pauies of militia from Chattanooga
and Knoxville were sent to Oliver
| Springs. Iney reached there In safe
! tv, but no news can be had, "a the
rioters have cut the wires and, with drawn
revolvers, driven the operators from tho
| telegraph-office. This afternoon a band
of hundred miners. armed with Wlnehes-
| ters, took possession Of train OF the
knoxville and Ohio road, ut Coal Creek,
en- route for Clinton. where they hoped 10
be able To intercept the reintorcements,
! but they we're too late.
RAILROADS BEING DYsAMITED.
The issue is a grave one, for tho miners
are dynamiting in dozen places tue
| Knoxville aud Ohio and the Knoxville and
! Maldens- Ridge railroads TO wreck ans
| trains carrying mllitia. Tonight the
through.mall trains could not go forward,
aud It is believed that the United States
authorities will interfere.
TROOPS GOING FORWARD.
CHArrANooGE, August 1G.-The news OF
| the skirmish at Oliver Springs was flashed
all over the State, the first official informa
| tion being dispatch from the .Adiutant-
! General to Colonel Wood, directing hun &c
order out the Third Regiment Of the Ten
nessee National Guard and report with
all available men at once at Oliver
| Springs. The riot alarm was sounded at
! the courthouse. and soon mounted Off
GERS We're seen in all parts of the city.
| Much delay was experienced owing TO an
indlsposltion of the militia to obey the call
| 10 arms, but at 1920 Companies A and h
with about fifty men, left for the front ria