The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1892-08-20
Uncertainty No Longer Marks the
Condition of Things.
THE MINERS SURRENDER AND
QUIET IS RESTORED
Two of the Troops Killed in the Final
Charge-Captain Anderson Gains
His Liberty and is Restored TO
Command-It is Estimated That at
Least Half Hundred People Were
Killed in Thursdays Battle.
Special to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

| CHATTANOOGA (Tenn.), Aug. 19.-Un-
certainty no longer marks the condition
of things at the seat of war. Fort An
| derson has been relieved and is no longer
in a state of siege. The tables have been
turned and the miners, instead of beng
the hunters, are hunted.
! When Major Carpenter turned into the
mountains at IOffuts last night with l25
! brave men the night was perfectly dark.
Although the Major was perfectly IA
mlliar with every by-path in the black
wllds, 1t was found difficult to keen the
direction, as not even star was shining.
After awhile four men appeared and OF
! tered to guide the party. Major Carpen-
ter reluctantly accepted the offer and the
march was again taken up and at better
! speed.
/ Between and o'clock. while entirely
unconscious of danger, the men were
| Tired upon from behind. The miners Law
! behind a stone ledge on their broadside.
ana moved down Volunteers John Walt
t hail and Bush Givens of Knoxville, and
wounded Volunteer Tom Carter also of
Knoxville. MAJOR Carpenters men
wheeled and fought bravely. but retreat
was necessary, they fighting all the way.
| The volunteers fell back to Clinton, six
miles, reaching there at noon.
In the meantime General Carnes had
| established himself at Otfuts to await
daylight. With the first streak of dawn
the advance on Coal Creek began. The
miners fired over their heads from the
mountains, so that bullets could be heard
WhIstling by the soldiers. The soldiers
returned the fire. At noon General
| Carnes captured the band of miners.
they were released on promise to de-
liver Captain Anderson. At the APP
! pointed hour nothing was to be seen of
el5her captain Anderson or the miners.
Then General CarneS entered Coal
! Creek. There he found that desultory
| tghung had been going on between the
| troops and miners at Fort Anderson all
! day. The miners surrendered at 1870
i. NJ.
Captain Anderson was restored to
! command and peace declared. After
reaching Clinton, under Major Carpeu-
ter, the men, although they had not
| slept any for twenty-tour hours, went bv
train directly to Coal Greek and reported
to General Carnes as he marched into
town. Ihey were then sent to Knox
vile with the dead and wounded
| IL is not known how many miners
/ were injured. Tonight the town is
! quiet and there is little doubt but that
| General Carnes and General Anderson
will hold it without serious trouble.
AMMUNITION FOR THE SOLDIERS.
NASHVILLE, Aug. 19-The Secretary
OF War was requested by Governor Blu
chanan to supply him with 10000 rounds
OF ammunition, to be shipped to Knox
! vile. The Secretary replied that the re-
quest was granted and the ammunition
was on the way to Knoxville to sustain
the law.
The orders issued to the Sheriff of
Shelby County, Sheriff of Hamilton
! County, and Captain Mallory Of Madison
! County, to proceed to the seat of war.
| have been countermanded.
| THURSDAYS BATTLE AT COAL, GREER
KNOXVILLE, Aug. I9.-Another story
of yesterdays fight at Coal Creek is to the
effect that at least twelve miners were
killed and more than twenty wounded.
The attack by the miners was made
with 5000 men against loo. The return
fire was ordered by General Anderson
and blaze from every side of the fort
! belched out. Some were killed outright
and many wounded.
At the stockade they were stopped and
the men clambered over the walls to re-
| lease the conVlctS, who were some dis
lance from the stockade higher up. The
| doors and entrances were thrown omen
and the miners were at last in possession.
! They then began to order the conyicts to
leave and had them all collected when
| General Anderson assembled all his
| soldiers at the side the miners were ON
and, moving howitZer to that point, be-
gan to lombard them.
The miners stopped the work of releas-
| ing the conYicts and turned TO get out of
the way of the heavy fusillade of rifle
bullets, Again and again their leaders
begged them to fight, but they rushed
down the hill to escape the furious on
slaught of the soldiers. With never. a
halt and never a rally they reached the
bottom OF the hill, bearing twelve dead
and more than twenty wounded miners
with them. They hurried far out of sight
and reach of the guns. They then col
lected their shattered and wounded forces.
1t IS feared that more than half hum
| dred were wounded and more are dead
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