Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-08-25
THE TENNESSEE WAR.
An Attack on the Oliver Springs stockade
By Miners Terrible State of Affairs.

An Attack on the Oliver Springs Stockade
By 8Iiners-A Terrible State of Affairs
KNOXVILLE. Tenn, Aug. 1.-THE
news columns of the local papers yes
terday morning closed with the state
ment that mob was forming at Cold
Creek late in the evening to cross the
mountain and attack the guards at
Oliver Springs, forty in number, and
| release $50 convicts confined within the
stockade. That statement was correct
and at daylight the miners reached
Oliver Springs
1t was about o'clock when Capt
Ferris, of the guards, discovered the
plans of the miners and saw that he
| was about to be attacked On two sides
of the stockade are wooded hills, anc it
was in this woods that the miners,
about 1850 strong, had taken their posi-
, lions.
! The miners saw that their position
had been discovered, and that they
could not with a rush and hurrah storm
the place and capture it. The guards
| Were active. Soon there came a voice
from the woods calling upon them to
surrender.
''Come and get u.s." was the answer.
''We will get you; come back from
the woods"
With this the miners secreted in the
woods began firing. Capt Ferris dis
patched a small number of guards to
prevent the convicts from stampeding.
The remainder of his forty men he sta
| toned in advan tageous positions within
the stockade.
Bullets from the miners came in
showers, but they fell almost harm
lessly in the stockade. The guards re-
piled with true aim. For fully half an
hour the battle ragged fercely, bullets
whizzing fast through the air. The
| miners seemed paralyzed at this unex-
| pected resistance and in few minutes
| the sun shone down upon cloud OF
smoke which had been uplifted by
those in the wood
A miner walked forward. Instantly
he was covered with guns.
eve want time to carry off our in
| jured," was his words.
The request was granted and hostili-
ties ceased. Picking up their wounded
and dying the miners left the scene
but yelled back:
| 1--WE will be back again.
It is not known what the result OF
| the battle was. None of the guards
were hurt to any extent. One received
| but q slight wound. A bridgeuan who
came in later, however, states that ter
miners were killed and one injured
A WILD MOB
| CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. IL
special to the Times at midnight re
ceived from a staff correspondent say.
the stockade at Oliver Springs is still
surrounded by the mob who are wild
/ e IL. l..
Brumrnil of lockwood, and the wound
ing of another of the men. The milit.;
company from Knoxville reached tn,
village, but it is not known whethe
they got to the stockade. No fight
! have occurred since morning, but sol
| miners are massed near the stockad,
and swear they will take it
! CAPTURING TRAINS.
Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 1T.-Yester
| day afternoon band of 100 miner
armed with Winchesters took possession
of a train on the knoxville s. Ohio roat
| at Coal Creek en- route for Clinton, wher'
they hoped to intercept the reinforce
ments but they were too late
| At II o'clock a troop of sixty-thre
soldiers left Chattanooga for the seen,
F! of disturbance. 1t is difficult to get de
| CStlIS anu L1auy TuIuOfS drS duOdL
The mob has cut the tel
egraph wires between Olive,
| Springs and the outside world apt
| blockaded the railways SO no news car
be had Dynamite has been placed un
der the rails leading to Oliver Spring
to prevent the militia reaching there
but they are determined to go and viii
march over the mountains. All trains
United States mail trains included
have stopped running between Knox
vile and Hartman on account of tn,
blockade.
The browning outrage Of the miner
was perpetrated last night in the capt
ure of passenger train which passed
Coal Creek about dark. Eighty-three
miners, all heavily armed, boarded it
placed pistols at the head Of the con
ductor and fireman and made then
carry them back to Clinton, where ths
coaches were detached and the passen
gers left terrorized. The miners the1
jumped on two coal cars and forced tn,
engineer to take them to Oliver
Springs. They refused to pay rail way
| fare.
THE IRON HALL.