The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-08-18
THE RIOTOUS MINERS
Still Driving 0onvicts from Ten
nessee's Mine Regions,
WHERE ANARCHY REIeNs SUPREME

The Mob in Virtual Possession OF a
Railroad. and the RaiIroaders
Compelled to do the Rioters Bid
ding-Governor Buchanan Orders
Out the Entire State Militia.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. is. An
archy reigns supreme in the mining re-
gion north Of this city. Excitement
here is intense, and is heightened by the
lack of information from the scene of
trouble, the wires having been cut. The
mob Is in actual possession of the prop
erty Of the East Tennessee road in the
neighborhood of Coal Creek and divers.
They have cut the wires in numerous
places, torn up the tracks in every direc-
tion and captured every locomotive in
the mining region.
At late hour Tuesday night over a
thousand miners captured three locomo-
tives and several coal cars at Coal
Creek and forced the engineers to take
them to Oliver Springs, where about
ninety-ive conyicts were employed in
the mines Of the Cumberland Coal com
pany. They arrived at Oliver yesterday
morning, and at once planned an attack
on the stockade where the convicts were
confined. About o'clock they as
saulted the stockade, and lively battle
ensued. The stockade was defended by
NIFTY picked guards and company of
thiriy-eight militiamen. Two compa-
nies of national guards en- route from
Chattanooga were compelled to take the
side track few miles from divers on
account Of displaced rails. Hundreds of
shots were exchanged, but, strange to
say, no one WAS injured. The guards
and militialnen, seeing that it was use
less to combat force of 200 infuriated
and determined men, quietly surren-
dered.
Convicts Sent Away.
The convicts, guards and soldiers were
loaded on train of flat cars and the
engineer at the point of Winchester,
was compelled to pull the train out in
the direction Of Knoxville. The stock
ade was then burned to the ground.
Arriving at Clinton permission was OBJ
tanned from the railway officials to bring
the convicts to this city. The train,
which was the only one in or out for
twenty-four hours, arrived in Knoxville
about o'clock yesterday afternoon, and
was soon surrounded by an immense
throng of curious spectators.
A special train left the station at d.
m, taking convicts to the main prison
at Nashville. Four convicts escaped
between divers and this city. Com
munication with Coal Creek was re-
stored yesterday afternoon The line
was no sooner reopened than the miners
took peaceable possession of the offices
at Coal Creek, and to prevent the dis
patch of regular business they filed thou
sands of words of stuff. They paid for
all messages at regular rates, and the
company could not refuse them.
1t is impossible to get II message with
anything like privacy. Sheriff Hol-
loway, of this county, received dis
patch from Governor Buchanan telling
him to summon 500 men at once and
send them by the nearest route to Oliver
Springs and Coal Creek to aid in sup
pressing the trouble now going on in
that vicinity. The sheriff was ordered
to send the men as soon as fifty were se-
cured. These men were to go as quickly
as they could be sent. At o'clock last
night 100 men had been deputized. The
governor has been wired to furnish arms
and equipments. The men are all ready
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