Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-08-19
AGAINST TERRIBLE ODDS
March the Troops ana Citizens Of Knox
ville-Threc Attacks Upon Fort Ander-
Icy ASSOCIATED PRKss. ]

tBY ASSOCIATED PREss.1
KNOXVILLE, Aug 1S-This afternoon
the Court House bell rang the riot call and
since then the city has been one huge pal
pitating nerve The excitement is intense
and beyond description.
At . o'clock this afternoon the wires
were cut at Coal Creek, and newspaper men
and railroad men knew that the last step
was about to be taken. Shortly thereafter
the Journal received a bulletin that an at
tack had been made upon Camp Anderson,
and from news obtainable, that attack must
have been a feeler, as no casualties were re-
ported. In short time another attack was
made, and then q third. In the last the
gatling guns were brought to bear upon the
miners with deadly effect Many were killed
and wounded.
At o'clock this evening the alarming
news was brought in that Captain Ander-
son had been captured and was being held
as prisoner with a guard to prevent hot
headed faction hanging him. The details
of the reported capture are not yet known,
hut it is said that it to some extent dis
heartened the militia They are, however,
fighting with desperation, as they know
that capture will be followed by the death
OF all at the hands of the infuriated mob.
Marching A .ainst Terrible Odds
Reinforcements are hurrying forward, but
they are few in number, though brave fight
ers At 8 p. NJ. General Carnes and the
West Tennessee troops have not yet ar
rived, and it is feared the little band that
lett Knoxville this afternoon will be butch
cred before help can reach it.
At 4:30 this afternoon the posse snm-
moned by Sheriff Holloway was armed with
Winchester rifles. 1t numbered So men,
among them some of the most prominent
business and professional men of the city,
and was commanded by Major D. A. Car
penter grizzled veteran of the late war
and a hard and desperate fighter. This
posse was reinforced by the militia under
command of Colonel Woolford, numbering
probably 100 men. The party was placed
on board the train, and Immediately left for
the battlefield. s4is
At Clinton they were met by a number of
citizens of Knoxville, Clinton and Coal
Creek, who urged the absolute madness of
going forward without reinforcements -Four
thousand armed miners, they said, were
drawn up ready to fire upon them as they
alighted from the train, and dynamite was
everywhere Major Carpenter heard them
through, and then, turning to his men, said
Boys guess We will go on" And they
went.
Tho Noise of Battle Heard At Clinton.
The wires are down, and beyond Clinton
they have not been heard from. At Ciin-
ton, the sounds OF battle are plainly heard,
and there is no doubt that deadly fighting
RACES beyond the mountains. The possible
fate of the Knoxville troops at this hour, 8
o'clock, is leaking out from the newspaper
ana telegraph Offices, and thousands of
angry, excited men line the streets and
curse Buchanan for his weakness and the
miners for their madness.
The Court House bell is again ringing the
riot call. and the excited people are rushing
in that direction. Men are volunteering.
but there are no arms.
General Carnes with 400 men has lust
reached Knoxville and will go Immediately
TO the 'front.' Opinion is growing that an
awful loss of life OF good citizens and inno-
cent men can only be averted by prompt
action of the Governor in calling on the
President to send Federal troops to the
scene of action.
Six hundred miners at Jellico captured
q train just before Wednesday midnight at
Jellico. The engineer refused to pull 1t
out, but the close proximity to his head of
a dangerous looking Winchester made him
quickly obey all commands made upon him.
They ran at the rate of so miles an hour
througs Z els and over ridges to Coal
Creek, hesing Just arrived at the time the
dispatch was sent. All but o few alighted
at Coal Creek, the few keeping possession
OF the train and going on to Clinton.