St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-19
MAY WADE IN BLOOD.
Tennessee Militia and Citizen
Volunteers March on
Coal Creek.
Camp Anderson Fiereely At
tackled and It's Command
er Captured.
Run1op That He Has Been
Lynehed by the Infu-
rated Miners.
Dynamite May Annihilate the
ReinfOPoementS at
Dynamite May Annihilate the
ReinfOrcementS at
Any Moment.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 1S.-A pri-
vate message from Clinton to this city
says: Courier has just arrived here
(9:15), from Coal Creek. He says fight
ing has been going on all afternoon.
Stye al soldiers were killed, and the
Gating gun Is out of order. The Knox
vile volunteers and soldiers who left
here by special train will never reach
Coal Creek, as the track is loaded with
dynamite.
KNOXVILLE, Aug. 1S.-Capt. Keller
Anderson, who for nearly year has
held the convicts at Coal Creek, is in
the hands of the miners at last. Latest
reports, which are reliable, say that the
battle at Camp Anderson was COM
menced as early as 10 this morning.
For several hours firing was not
general About o'clock miners to the
number of a thousand made an organ
lied assault on tie fort and were sue
cessfully repulsed. The third attempt
resulted in a regular pitched battle and
gatling guns got in their work, but to
what extent is not known. Several of
the assailants were wounded. and some
of them were probably killed. but no
one knows for certain.
Between the first and second assaults
OH the forts three miners were capt
ured. Their comrades sent flag of
truce to Capt. Anderson to ask for re-
lease. lie was seized by several OF
them Oh meeting them on neutral
ground and rushed down the hill and
finally taken TO one of the hotels in the
village, where he is guarded by Robert
Lindsay. deputy United States mar
Bhal and number of friends.
Held as Hostage.
They are holding HIM as hostage
aud Will not agree to give him up until
the troops and convicts are withdrawn
from the valley.
William Lii dsay, desperate charac-
ter, and brother of the deputy marshal.
set but to organize mob to lynch An
derson. The hotel is surrounded by
several hundred well-armed men and
the story is To the effect that Anderson
was drunk and came outside the fortifi-
cations in a drunken manner, and the
boys picked him up without trouble.
His force of 135 men are still holding
the tort.
The men have been on short rations
for three days, as every avenue of sup
ply has been cut off.
Later-Capt. Anderson has been taken
from the hotel, where he was guarded,
and spirited away. 1t is supposed that
he has been lynched.
The details of the reported capture
and lynching of Anderson are not yet
known, but it is said that it has to some
extent disheartened the militia. They
are. however, fighting with desperation,
as they know that capture will be fol-
lowed by the death Of all at the hands
Of the infuriated mob.
To Move at Daybreak.
KNOXVILLE, Aug. 1S.-Gen. Carnes
has gone into camp at Offus, four miles
from Coal Creek. He will go to the re-
lief of Fort Anderson at daybreak.
There has been no fighting since dark.
Two hundred more volunteers leave
here for Coal Creek at 4 o'clock. They
are sleeping in the cars.
The Knoxville Iron company, lesees
of the branch penitentiary at Coal
Creek, have given the governor twenty
days notice that they will give up the
lease and turn the convicts over to the
state authorities. This decision, if laid
before the miners, would probably put
an end to the whole trouble.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 1S.-GOV. Buchanan
is still quite sick and Adjt. Gen. Norman
today directed affairs, issuing orders to
all the sheriffs to summon men and
press arms or secure them at any cost.
Gen. Anderson, at Coal Creek, was or
dered to hold the fort until assistance
larrived. Forty men left here tonight.