The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-08-16
AN ATTACK ON INMAN.
~uH MINERS DRIVE OFF THE CON-
VICTs AND GUARDS.

kuhDlO W.
With the Mob.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 15.-Ae Tracy City
or;et prevails, though much anxiety is
ssoun by the miners as to what steps the
,,,ns owners and state authorities will take.
1ov buchanan announces his determine
dion TO use every lawful means in bis power
to rreserve order when application in
rroper and legal form is made to
him by the civil authorities. The
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
rosd Company officials intimate that
the situation at all the mines and coke
ovens where convicts are worked is not q
piessing one, and a spirit OF resistance seems
prevalent in all the mining districts.
Neither the convict lessees nor the authorities
have decided upon their plan of action, and
the miners at Tracy City are in full control,
with plenty of arms They VIII reopen the
mines in a few days, 30 soon as they can or
gsnize a force to work the coke ovens, and
convicts may not be used agaiu at these
mines
BREWING OF THE STORM.
CHATTANOOGA, TENN, Aug. 15.-The
convict lease system, which oocasioned the
lawlessness of the Coal Creek miners at
Bricevile, in Anderson county, about this
time last year, is again the inciting cause
for riot and lawless outbreaks in another
district. Mutterings and threats Of
months, and correspondents who were
on the ground at Bricevile freely stated
that there was perfect organization OF all
the free miners in the states of Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama, who were sworn to
rid all the mines Of conviots. The idea was
not received with full credence
and no extraordinary precautions
have been taken to. prevent an
outbreak in other districts remote from the
scene Of the troubles of 1891. The first in"
tlms.ion was the unexpected attack on the
guards at Tracy City last Friday night
aud the liberation Of the convicts. The
story Of how they were sent back to Brice-
vile was told in these dispatches. Tracy
City is on the western branch Of the Cum
berland mountains, the eastern being sep
arated from it by a cauoe-shaped valley,
up which runs the lately built Sequatohie
valley branch of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis railroad to Pikeville.
THE MINE AT INmAN.
About oue-fourth the way up the valley
from where the Sequatchie river empties
4 into the Tennessee at South Pittsburg the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway Company
have a mine at Inman, at the end Of spur
track of about eight or ten miles. This
spur leaves the line at Victoria, where the
company have in operation large number
of coke ovens, supplied from the surround-
a ing mines. of which that at Inman is the
principal. From Tracy City 1t is but
a short days walk down the mountain to
Victoria, and trouble was par
italy expected after the outbreak at
Tracy City. The suspicion was well
founded, for early Sunday morning little
Knots Of miners began to congregate, among
them some strangers from Tracy City, and
every miner was visited by them They
gathered together about 200 well-armed
men and proceeded toward the stockade.
squad OF guards, formerly on duty at
Tracy City, who had taken the released
prisoners from there to the penitentiary at
Nashville, were en- route to Inman to re-
!nforce the men protecting the prisoners
there.
THE ATTACK ON INMAN.
At Whitehall the train was stopped on the
tresle and the reinforcements cut off, then
the movement was made on Inman. Nc
resistance was made, and 282 convlcts and
twenty guards were taken prisoners
Dy the mob Of free miners, led by
IL r. helton. the party having left
8pri3oners were marched to Victoria.
loaded on cars and hauled away by switch
#engine. The stockade was not burned and
no damage was done to the property of the
accompany. Last night work was ordered
tusDended by the company, the free miners
lavlng been missed from the village
1he convicts were taken to Bridge
port Ala, and from there sent via
ne Nashville and Chattanooga railroad
nashville under charge of <. B. Wade
tate superintendent of prisons Every
ulng Is quiet at Inman and the other com
any works in the valley, and the members
'ae mob are returning to their homes
the terms of the surrender the property
H., 'he company is to be left .unharmed
neither that agreement will be kept re-
mains to DO seen.
THE SHERIFF PowERLESs.
Judge Moon of this circuit, holding cour
Jasper promptly and vigorously ordered
re suerlI to summon a posse and IL posi- blt
ioIect the captured stockade. The sheriff
t ue cannot secure q sufficient force X
llIlce the order, but left on the first train
Illman 1t is thought that worh
| III 0e resumed in the mires Tomorrow
SSness among the free miners
Nsy,, fearlng lockout as 9
sun ou' Oh their action to-day. The wire
a ~ tio,A vuO early this morning and communi
X Ne NJ. were sent by a roundabout circuit
X oL LslVlLe. A messenger boy on horse
Satio" vas 1nsy carrying reports from th,
T'ou az Whtwell to the telegraph office
Eed;nIne mIners ordered him to stop, and he no
No. tnelr orders, was fired on and tn,
'0e snot from under him.
m, may NOT BURN THE sToCKADE,
W. n0 stockade may not be burned, as tn
6ero VI Inman would burn with it anc
6pjit ~ high trestle Of the branch roaC
1n uhioS haooVe the stockade that would 20 also
"niGh case 1t would render work on tn,
~ o inp possible, thus cutting off the mel
- 0Onp S posed the mob as we'll as the con
- - Sheriff Morrison wired Gov. Blu
~ uan '' the facts in the case this mornini
nose os ordered by the governor to summon
Ie sId aod protect the company's property
Srrn..LH LlH says the people are so much il
Il, 9y with the miners that he canno
- ;ne. ;Lotce. He does not know any of th,
Msod,,ue tue mob and has little to say. H
III is ,'..a sea the governor that he (the sher
rJ uttI9rly helpless to do anything TO
Mstic, Ornging the members of the mob DC
CHARGE OF CowARDICE.
special dispatch from a member OF th,
Egs o,sttu etau sent to the scene OF this morn.
- ~. sge says: cutter oowardice on tn,
Ihe guards was shown, az the
yeeven men were strongly posted
vobtu 0'uIu have kept Off the rioters
v3nai, assistance arrived The miners
vFletor,s telegraph editor a
trer a',Id aud exercised rigid censorship
al, eiy dispatch that went out As on,