The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-04-28
10 90 EEELlNa suRvIvEs.
Hot-headed Miners Make a Desperate At
tack on Tracy city.

vile lnurSQay OF lasJ week hbyS
about seyenty-fve or one hundred
hot-headed miners, most Of them
young men and boys, met foeman
worthy Of their steel at the stock
ade at Tracy City at Ii o'clock on
Wednesday night, and aftera short,
sharp fight, in which Two men were
killed and several others wounded,
two perhaps fatally, retired into the
mountain fastness.
AS a result there will be one fun
eral in the bleak hills in Grundy
County and perhaps more. Two
brave oficersof the State are writh-
ing in pain from outlaws bullets.
and the homes Of four or five fool
ish miners are saddened by the suf-
fering Of those who were given a
taste of what was in store for every
man who attempted to rightalleged
grievances by appealingto the force
of arms.
Early in the day Wednesday the
Tracy City agents Of the Tennessee
Coal, Iron and Railroad Company
received what they deemed reliable
information thatt thestockade would
be attacked that night. This in
formation was at once conveyed tc
the officials at the stockade and tc
President N. Baxter, at Nashville
+ Mr.. Baxter then notified Adjutant
t General Fite, and troops were OF
5 dered to be in readiness to move a
I a amomenfs notice. A telegram wal
I sent to Warden Burton, at Nash
vile, and he left at once for Trac.
: City, arriving there about p. m.
e But Deputy Warden Shnver ha'
: not been asleep, and when his chic
: reached the stockade he found 4
v men on guard, amply supplied wit
/ ammunition.
h Pickets had been posted outsid
It the stockade, and spies had bee
y detailed to ascertain the time an
method Of attack. 1t had bee
brought to the attention Of Deput
Warden Shriver that an abtac
would be made at a. m.
il Shortly after dark great, blaC
A. clouds banked up against the SIX
g. and as the night wore on the thu
n der began to roll and the lightnil
Of to faeh. 1t was an ominous seen
1f and just such a night as wouldsr
II. the dark purposes Of the malco
th tents. The lights in the stocka
de were burning brightly, but the
ve was a death-like stiffness over
The convicts were restless as t
MT guards moved to and fro, and th
10 seemed to realize that possibly t
b. long-looked for opportunity to
M gain their liberty was near at han
he They had heard of the threaten
he attack, and they lay in their G
ms discussing it in whispers.
A few minutes before II o'clC
Deputy Warden Shriyer, She
ear Saunders, and ex-Sheriff De J
1er nette heard loud knock at
lad stockade gate. Instantly the p
die derous gate swung back on its n
ey- sive hinges and there in the glo
Ter stood three men heavily armed.
md "Upon what terms will you
lease the convicts?" asked the t
er Of the men, strapping yol
ln1 fellow Of about twenty-five.
ms "They viii not be released at {
lied replied the brave deputy
Lren "Well, we will have them"
itch the leader, at the same time say
led. that he and his companions re
of sented 200 miners, and that
ssoo had the dynamite and the arm
do it with.
- Then he held up in his han
90 dynamite cartridge, such as is
in blasting away coal, and Wa
aeen tba NOT Of makiner a threate