The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-08-20

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zens on the lookout for him, and ne
will be warned to leave the city. Threats
of lynching him are also freely made.
CARNES AT COAL CREEK.
The General Takes Possession and Forces
the Surrender Of Captain Anderson.
Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. Aug. 19-General
Csrnes is monarch of all he surveys at
Coal Creek. He occupies q meadow mid
way between the village and Fort Ander-
son. Passengers on the last train, which
left there at o'clock this even
ing, say that he had taken
about one hundred of the insurgents
prisoners and is guarding them near his
camp. The garrison at Fort Anderson has
been increased to two hundred men. and
depot and railroad property. Soon after
shis arrival TINS morning, General Carnes de-
handed the release of Captain Anderson,
and gave the miners until 1
O'Clock to produce him. One o'clock
came, and o'clock passed by. and the
miners had not turned over the captive.
He ordered his soldiers to arrest all suspi-
cious-looking men. They went around the
village and arrested men promiscuously
until one hundred men had been taken into
camp. He addressed them az follows:
''You promised to release Captain Ander-
son at o'clock. You have broken faith
with me. You shall produce him in one
hour or / will proceed to burn every house
In town and will shoot every one of you
down."
In less than an hour q committee. sent
out for the purpose, marched into camp
and surrendered the prisoner. He immedl-
ately resumed command at Fort Anderson.
he had been concealed in little farm
house on the outskirts of the village. One
of the men arrested this afternoon by Gen.
Carnes was q negro miner. who boasted he
killed Bruce Givens in the battle this morn
ing. He will probably be held on q charge
Of murder In the first degree.
General Carnes has bud" Lindsay, the
leader of the miners, under arrest at Coal
Greek. He is a thoroughly desperate char
Rcter. and has killed several men. 1t was
be who proposed hanging Captain Ander-
sou yesterday, and WAS only prevented by
bis brother, who 10 q good citizen and post
master at Coal Creek.
General Carnes marched up to Fort An
derson this afternoon to the great relief
there.
dispatch from Coal Creek, says: There
were TWO men shot by miners at the
camp to-day and another wounded.
the surrounding hills are bristling with
miners who could be seen when the sun got
On q level with them. The captured min
nrs. one hundred in number, have just been
placed in box cars. Everyth is omin
Ously quiet. There was engagement in
the northeastern part of town this evening
between Colonel Sewer, in command of the
Chiekasaw Guards and about three hun
tred Yellow Creek miners whom they en-
eountered ON the hills while out looking
Tor Colonel Anderson. The miners were
routed and several were wounded. Two of
the Chickasaw Guards were also wounded.
General Carnes's Trip Through the Woods.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Aug. 19.-Uncertainty
no longer marks the condition of things at the
seat of war;" as it is now generally called. FoIt
Anderson has been relieved by the arrival of re-
nforcements, and it ia longer in
state of siege. On the contrary,
The tables turned, and the min
srs, instead OF being hunters of men,
are the hunted. General Carnes and his troops
made a forced march from Offutts Station north
Of Clinton, to the neighborhood of the be-
leagured camp. reaching there at daybreak in
the rear or the line OF rabble which marked the
miners lines. On his arrival the ground q
u.
advance of the line had either Jailed TO do their
duty or had been captured aud the position OF
the miners was not KNOWN s1he forward move
ment was very cautiously made.
General Carnes and his heterogeneous force OF
citizens and abont three hundred militia left the
train at Offutts station, fearing trap some
where the railroad, and pushed forward
across the country. As they cautiously felt
their way amid the rocks and rushing streams of
the mountains a sudden explosion from "a bomb
OF dynamite startled the men as they shook
the clOgging mud from their over-burdened
shoes or wrung the accumulated rain " ter from
sodden clothing. From OhItts To Coal Greek by
the route taken by the column of General Carnes
" a Iaborious climb. ana as laborious descent
Dfa mountain-passas the foothills or the Cum
bertrand range anywhere afford. it is good
right miles as you go, but lone Thousand as you
snip. as remarked Dy one or the soldier boys
whose first experience in mountain climbing was
found in this tiresOme night march.
As the head or the column cautiously pushed
out from the cloud of fog and darkness which
had enveoped the men they came down the
siee OF the mountain. shot rang out where all
except Tor the steady tramp OF the advancing
column. A young man named Walthall who
Gas aPnck by pS'k BAH and ha fell f' heasons
among his comrades corpse. A body OF miners
had chosen sheltered i rock Which formed rnS
volley which caused the only casualty Curl
ously enough. the miners had taken no other
provision To prevent rear attack. their out
posts being the voluntary service OF few men
who felt the danger of an exchange OF clothing
II them realized that they would have
20 wear the hated stripes of con-
Tict il caught In their act OF treason,
and were on the qui vive for the first intlnatiOn
Of the approach of the military to make their
Exit from the valley OF the shadow OF death. as
they were almost ready 10 believe OF the Coal
Greek valley. A mad rush was made for the
cover OF the rocks and trees OF the mountains.
Not all were so craven, however. for a desultory
firing BEGAN and was kept up for while and
two or the militiamen were struck 10y
their bullets. Eighteen OF che miners were capt
ured. the remainder having escaped into the
woods.
General Carnes's advance guard at once
formed into q charging line and received scat
tering yolley from a few OF the miners. Two OF
the slleriff's posse John Malthall. OF Knoxville,
clerk IN the offices of the East Tennessee, Vir.
ginia * Georgia road, and Bruce Givens also
OF Knoxville, shot and killed This
detachment had most arduous task Ia
perform in crossing the mountain at Eight in the
midst OF q heavy rain and lowering clouds of
mist, which made IL impossible to distinguish
objects more than q few feet away, with un-
known and supposedly alert enemy surrounding
them. Every rock. bush and tree might be the
hiding place or an enemy. and an almost certain
light in front OF them when they should arrive IN
the locality or Camp Anderson. IL was
under cover OF night that they were enabled ID
reach their destination almost without disaster
At Clinton, before leaving for the immediate
front, they were subject To innuendos aud
threats, with numerous gratIitous bits OF infor
nation that the way lined with dynamite
aud strong bodies OF well-armed and disciplined
miners swarnling on every side. Two bodies
OF dead miners were found after the