, 1892-08-19
BLOODY WAR f!
The Tennessee Miners Fight
Like Demons.
THE STATE TROOPS HAVE MET
THEIR MATCH.
The Battle at the StOCkadG and
the Result
QUITE A NUMBER KILLED AND
WOUNDED.
The Leader Of the Troops Captured.
The Sheriffs of Various Counties
Ordered to Arm the Citizens.
The COnYicts Released.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn August 10 The
latest intelligence received from Coal
Creek, at 1 80 this morning, is from a cor
respondent aud made his way to Ofets,
where the wires are working. His report
confirmed the rumors received earlier in
the night. General Anderson was captured
by five men coming in under flag of truce.
They enticed him into the village by prom
ises Of safety. On turning a corner they
were met by a mob, who took him to the
hotel and demanded that be sign an order
to his lieutenant for the surrender of the
stockade and fort. Though threatened
with hanging he refused to sign, asked only
that he be shot and his grave marked so
that his family could find it. He may be
lynched ere this. Desultory firing lasted
all night before last. The miners claimed
to have killed FIVE soldiers and silenced
howitzer. At Ofetts General Carnes learned
that 500 miners awaited him at Knapp's
Summit, near Coal Creek, and had three
cattle cars filled with dynamite, so he left
the train and went up narrow valley, and
when last heard from was within two miles
of Coal Creek awaiting for daylight, when
a bloody battle is expected.
STORY OF THE FIGHT.
Knoxville, August 19.-Another story
of yesterdays fight at Coal Creek is to the
effect that twelve miners were killed and
twenty wounded. The attack by the
miners was made with 300 men against 15O.
A return fire was ordered by General An
derson and blaze from every side of the
fort belched out. Some were killed out
right and many wounded. At the stock
ade they stopped and the men clambered
over the walls to release the cOnvicts. The
fort is some distance from the stockade
higher up. Doors and entrances were
thrown open and the miners were at last
in possession. They began to order the
convicts to leave and had them all cap
tured when General Anderson assembled
all his soldiers at the side the miners were
on, and, moving hOWitzer to that side
began bOmbarding. The miners stopped
in the work of the release of the convicts
and turned to get out of the way of the
heavy fusilade of rife bullets. Again and
again their leaders urged them to light. but
they rushed down the hill to escape the
furious onslaught of the soldiers. They
never halted and never rallied and reached
the bottom of the bill, bearing twelve dead
and more than twenty wounded miners
with guns. They then collected their
shattered and wounded forces 1t is feared
that more than half hundred are wound
ed, and more dead than reported.
FLANKING THE MINERS.
CLINTON, August 19.-After leaving the
train last night, owing to reports that the
track was lined with dynamite, and while
marching through the woods towards Coal
Creek, his scouts were fired on by the
miners. When the main force came up
there was a lively skirmish and in ten min
utes the miners were in full retreat,
leaving four dead and carrying several
wounded with them. General Carner's
loss is fonr dead and six wounded. The
wounded were placed in an ambulance and
taken on the forward march to Coal Creek.
The troops left the regular road, attempt
ing 10 reach Coal Creek by the mountain
trail. Nothing has been heard from the
Knoxville company since it passed
through here yesterday afternoon.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, August 19.-An
order was received this morning from Gov
ernor Buchanan directing the sheriff to
summon and arm COS more men to go as
soon as possible to Coal Creek. All wires
from Coal Creek are cut. The only news