Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1892-08-20
THE TENNESSEE WAR.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug 1T.-The
news columns of the local papers yes
terday morning closed with the state
ment that mob was forming mt Cold
Creek late in the evening to cross the
mountain and attack the guards ut
Oliver Springs, forty in number, and
release 100 convicts confined within the
stockade. That statement was correct
and ut daylight the miners reached
Oliver Springs
1t was about o'clock when Capt
Ferris, of the guards, discovered the
plans of the miners and saw that he
was about to be attacked. On two sides
of the stockade are wooded hills, and it
was in this woods that the miners,
about 100 strong, had taken their posi-
tions.
The miners saw that their position
had been discovered, and that they
could not with rush and hurrah storm
the place and capture 1t. The guards
were active. Soon there came voice
from the woods calling upon them to
surrender.
Come and get u.s." was the answer.
1--WE will get you; come back from
the woods"
With this the miners secrcted in the
woods began firing. Capt Ferris dis
patched small number of guards to
prevent the convicts from stampeding.
The remainder of his forty men he sta
toned in advantageous positions within
the stockade.
Bullets from the miners came in
showers, but they fell almost harm
lessly in the stockade. The guards re-
piled with true aim. For fully half an
hour the battle rageo fiercely, bullets
whizzing fast through the air. The
miners seemed paralyzed ut this unex-
pected resistance and in few minutes
the sun shone down upon n cloud of
smoke which had been uplifted by
those in the wood.
A miner walked forward. Instantly
he was covered with guns.
1--WE want time to carry off our in
jured," was his words.
The request was granted and HOSTILE
ties ceased. Picking up their wounded
and dying the miners left the scene,
but yelled back:
1--WE will be back again"
1t is not known what the result Of
the battle was None of the guards
were hurt to any extent. One received
but slight wound. A bridgeman who
came in later, however, states that ten
Iii la1 nd ~,
A WILD MOB.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. IA
special to the Times at midnight re-
ceived from staff correspondent says
the stockade ut Oliver Springs is still
surrounded by the mob who are wild
over the killing of the leader, William
Brummil, of lockwood, and the wound
ing of another of the men. The militia
company from Knoxville reached the
village, but it is not known whether
they got to the stockade. No fights
have occurred since morning, but 500
miners are massed near the stockade
and swear they will take it.
CAPTURING TRAINS.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 17.-Yester-
day afternoon band Of 100 miners
armed with Winchcsters took possession
of train on the Knoxville & Ohio road
at Coal Creek en- route for Clinton, where
they hoped to intercept the reinforce
ments but they were too late.
At II o'clock troop of sixty-three
soldiers left Chattanooga for the scene
of disturbance. 1t is difficult to get de-
tails and many rumors are afoat.
The mob has cut the tel
egraph wires between Oliver
Springs and the outside world and !
blockaded the railways so no news can |
be had Dynamite has been placed un-
der the rails leading to Oliver Springs |
to prevent the militia reaching there,
but they are determined to go and will |
march over the mountains. All trains,
United States mail trains included,
have stopped running between Knox
vile and Hartman on account of the |
blockade.
The browning outrage of the miners
was perpetrated last night in the capt
ure of passenger train which passed
Coal Creek about dark. Eighty-three
miners, all heavily armed, boarded it,
placed pistols at the head of the con-
ductor and fireman and made them |
carry them back to Clinton, where the
coaches were detached and the passen-
gers left terrorized. The miners then
jumped on two coal cars and forced the
engineer to take them to Oliver
Springs. They refused to pay rail way
fare.
THE IRON HALL.