Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-08-22
BUD LINDSAY CAVES.
He Purchases Life BY Turning
States Evidence.
MOBBERs' CONVICTION ASSURED.
He Saves His Neck From the Halter by
Promising to Reveal Important Secrets.
Action Of the Striking Miners Re
ceixes EngIi.h nennncIation.

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ceives English Benunciation.
lBy Telegraph 10 the Evening Journall
KNoxvnLF. Tenn. Aug % A sem
sational episode occurred last night at
Coal Creek. The leader of the most dar-
ing most lawless, and most troublesome
body of miners was Bud Lindsay. To
/ his Vaccinations has been due much of
the turbulence on the creek. He has
made himself so obnoxious to conservative
miners and citizens not i'm sympathy with
the rioting that he has been a marked fig
ure, and only his keeping within safe dis
tance Of the military since his capture. and
generally between Sour walls, has pre-
vented his being killed.
For several nights he was confined IN
an old mine and the mouth guarded by
| large squad of soldiers Affairs during the
day have been so quiet and the submis-
sion of the miners so general that watch
was somewhat relaxed and Lindsay had
lost some of his fear, and wandered more.
widely within the enclosure.
Last night, In some way that no one
seems TO understand, four citizens man
aged to seize and silence him and in the
dusk slipped him between the picSets. |
He was hurried up the valley towards !
Brceville and the mob, which gained /
force almost at every step, hurried him /
forward, fearing alarm and pursuit by |
soldiers
The journey was not ended until Brice
vile. the scene of the labor troubles last
year and the home Of the moIe conserve
tive class of miners, was reached. Once
there a rope was secured and placed
around Lindsays neck.
Chose the Least of Two Evils.
Though considered desperate man
and although he has at least dozen
murders TO his account he broke down
and begged for his life with all possible
{ fervor His pleadings and lamentations
were effective He was promised
s life upon the solemn promise that to-
o day be will turn states evidence
and reveal the names and plans of
all the leaders. tell how the mob was
' raised. the nature of the OATH the names
: of the miners known TO have killed
> soldiers or guards in short to reveal TO
: the civil authorities ell of the lawless-
u ness that has reigned and this he has
{ agreed to testify TO in court. When an
this was promised the rope was taken
from his neck and he was returned TO
- the camp for safe-keeping. 1t is now
believed that with his testimony twenty
or thirty leaders can be successfully tried
s. for murder and convicted.
II martial Law Practiced.
II Military law, though not proclaimed, is
e practiced here today. Within the circlet of
i the sentinels there is no individual freedom.
% Men come and go by su1erauce OF the'com-
1t handing officer aud passes must be shown
'e at every turn Soldiers board the trains as
20 they come into the station aud subject each
D. passenger TO scrutiny. Arrests without a
.sa foo
In Knoxville, thirty miles distant. The bnyo-
{, net is deemed process enough.
g- General Cames has now nearly 800 pris-
a. oners confined under guard in the church
)r at Coal Creek, having captured about thirty
men, either miners or their allies. Last
in night it was feared that an attempt would
OF be made to rescue the prisoners from the
IN school house in which they Were, SO it WIS
d. decided to transfer them 10 the village
church While this was being done a
IT, bridge over Coal creek gave way and cap
W tured and captors fell in a heap fully fifteen
,is feet to the rocky bed Of the creek, which
III had only few inches of water in it. A
few bruises covered the physical injuries
~ and none Of the prisoners escaped.
Guns aud Pistols Hid Away.
te The prisoners are a tough looking set Of
typical mountaineers, and whatever may
me be said of their cowardice, as shown in thu
- bushwhaclsng method Of warfare, certainly
'' they viii not betray euch other Genera
Is, Carnes mas ordered the arrest Of every mar
ht not furnished with arass Several suspects
i'm We're taken from the Knoxville train thi
le. morning.
lid They gave no satisfactory account o
its themselves and We're held prisoners. On
of them was George E. Irish, the uncle o
en young Irish, who has caused so mucl
Id trouble. When pressed closely with ques
,is tions as to what he knew, he declared h
as would implicate no man if he was kept
M prisoner for a thousand years.
This is the spirit displayed by ALL Doubt
less many OF the prisoners are innocent O
participating in the riot, but nothing ca
induce them TO identify single man VIII
Dy was with the mob.
1t is a singular fact that not a pistol 0
rifle has been found on any of the prisoners
ant although nearly all Of them had cartridge
ada in then pockets. Guns and pistols hav
re. been found very carefully secreted in hollo,
AZ. trees and caves, and there is little doub
%! that the whole gang has arms IN the mouI
'ol- tains ready for use if they gain their ire,
is dom. General Carnes, therefore, if judl
ach ment shall go against HIM in the court
will probably declare martial law.
ho Twenty-seven Miners Dead.
me
- found in the mountains This makes in a
.ne the bodies of twenty-seven miners foun
de since Thursdays slirmish. A number
nal, wounded were carried away by their con
not rades.
wn Fifteen guns were captured in the moui
,ta tains, and beside each was a miners cap an
inr lamp. General Carnes thinks the trouble
mo- about over, but others believe the mine
Re. are playing a waiting game. The mine
"a. are gathering at Jellico and Others are lea
the ing the country.
and A London Paper Denounces the striker
any LoNDON, Aug. 22.-The Daily New
me commenting on the American strike
sor strongly denounces what it terms u
ugh "barbarous and treacherous' methods
ting the strikers, especially the miners.
nal. says: "Those men are not entitled
the name strikers in its ordinary sens
They are not even insurgents, who 7
H. or,oof tho or1fnorty 1ot5c If war fThpv "a