The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-08-18
OLIVER SPRINGS TAKEN
Troops and Guards Surrender
to Miners.
HUNDREDS OF SHOTS EXCHANGED

No One Killed, Bowever.-The Convicts
and Guards Sent to KnoxvilIe--The
stocksde Then Burned--C Coal Creek Next.
Indignation at the Governor.
Knoxville, Tenn, Aug. 1S.--Anarchy
reigns supreme in the mining regions
north Of this city. Excitement here is
intense and is heightened by the lack of
definite information from the scenes of
the trouble, the wires being cut.
The mob is in actual possession of the
property of the East Tennessee Railroad
in the neighborhood of Coal Creek and
Oliver Springs. They have cut the wires
in numerous places, torn up the track in
every direction and captured every loco
motive in the mining region.
AT late hour Tuesday night over a
thousand miners captured three locomo-
tives and several empty coal cars at Coal
Creek and forced the engineers to take
them to Oliver Springs, where 95 con
victs were employed in the mines of the
Cumberland Coal Company.
They arrived at Oliver Springs about 4
O'Clock yesterday morning, and at once
planned an attack on the stockade where
convicts were confined. About o'clock
they assaulted the stockade, and battle
ensued
The stockade was defended by 80 pick-
ed guards and company of 3S militia
men. Two companies of National Guards
enroute here were compelled to take the
side track afew miles from Oliver Springs
on account of misplaced rails.
Hundreds of shots were exchanged, but
strange to say, no one was injured.
Guards and militia seeing that it was
useless to combat a force Of infuriated
and determined strikers, quietly surren-
dered.
The convicts, guards and soldiers were
loaded on train of freight cars, and the
engineer, at the point of a Winchester
rifle, 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
Obtained from the railway officials to
bring the convicts to this city. The train,
which was the only one in or out for "a
hours, arrived in Knoxville at o'clock
in the afternoon and was soon surrounded
by an immense throng of the curious.
A special train left ut p. M, taking
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vile. Four convicts escaped between Oil
yer Springs and this city.
Communication with Coal Creek was
restored in the afternoon. The line was
no sooner re-opened than the miners took
peaceable possession of the office at Coal
Creek, and to prevent the dispatch of
regular business they filed thousands of
words of stuff.
They paid for all messages at regular
rates, and the company could not refuse
them.
over ], 900 miners are massed at Coal
Creek, all heavily armed. The yhave cap
tured the two companies of militia sent to
Oliver Springs. They locked the soldiers
in a warehouse at Clinton yesterday, and
then 200 marched across the mountain
TO Coal Creek
When the proposed assault upon Camp
Anderson is made they will force the cap
tive soldiers in uniform to march at the
head of the column, and have sent
word to the officers in command to that
effect.
They believe that the officers Of the
camp will refuse to fire on them as long
as the soldiers are in front.