The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-08-15
TROUBLOUS TIMES.
EVERY INDICATION POINTS TO an
OTHER CLASH WITH THE MINERS.
The Soldiers Lynch n Miner Who Was I'M
plicated in tho Assassination of Private
neutrality-suspicious. on Strike.

Knoxville, Tenn, August 1O.-(Special. y
The situation in the mining districts Ill
and around Coal Creek and Brlcevllle Is
assuming anything but Il favorable condition.
! Tonight dispatch just received from Lieu
tenant Fyffe at Fort Anderson, who was
the hero of last summers war, says the
miners are greatly excited and that serious
trouble is expected at any moment.
The trouble began last Monday night by
the brutal and cowardly assassination OF
Private Laugherty. This was avenged
at > o'clock this morning by u party of
soditrs who took Dick Drummond from his
boarding house i'll Briceville and suspended
! his body in mid air from Il railroad trestle.
| The soldiers were also in the act OF lynch
ing miner named Elkins, who was at
first supposed to have been the leader of
the mob which killed Laugherty, but when
! strung up he confessed all and implicated
Drummond, Il man named Moore and one
named Woods, all of whom escaped except
Drummond or they would have met SINH
| lar fate with him.
The news of the lynching did not become
well known until after daylight this morning.
1t was . clock before the miners cut down
the body of their companion who had been
! lynched. a coroners inquest was quickly
held and a verdict that he came to his dea tn
at the hands of unknown persons returned.
No sooner was The body Of Drummond
disposed OF until the days excitement was
greatly added to by LOCO free miners gong
| out on strike, thus closing down thirteen
| mines which have been running on full
| time for the past year. The cause Of the
strike is the reduction in wages OF 20 per
| cent made yesterday by the mine owners,
| who i'll turn proposed to give the men
| reduction OF the same per cent in store
| provisions AID house rents. This they
WDllld InnII only,
the miners with families and hence the
strike
! The mine of the Knoxville Iron Company,
which works state convicts is still in opera
! ton and the free miners are very indignant
| and would release the coiyictS and burn
the stockades again if only given a chance
| though it is thought the standing army is
ample to prevent this.
1t was about this date last year that
| the labor riot occurred. and it is feared
that they are to be repeated on the ami
| vcrsary.
At this hour all is quictudc though Com
pany d. of this city stands ready to pro
| coed to Coal Creek at moments notice
| Details of tho Lynching.
The lynching of Drummond took place at
! clock this morning. DrunInond
| boarding at the house of Esquire IIandrum
| and working in the Shamrock mines
| About l O'Clock, the militia surrounded
! the house and demanded Drummond.
| There were twenty-five or thirty soldiers
| dressed in uniform and carrying guns with
fixed bayonetS They Went to Drummond's
| room. lie had gone down stairs III the
kitchen where he locked the door and re
| fused To surrender except to a sheriff and
! he told the authority for his arrest
was higher than n sheriff.
! At last he agreed to surrender and did.
! He was u soldier i'll the marine ser
vice lie was marched from his boarding
/ hnuSa and thp militia
| it was noticed, carried Il hemp rope.
Al day this morning DrummOnds body
was found hanging from railroad treste
| Il few hundred yards from where he was
i arrested. The motive for lynching him was
| that he had been one of party that ran
! the soldiers off from house of iIlfame
| few weeks ago and it is further charged
! he was with the party that killed Laugherty.
! With SO many idle the danger Of trouble
becomes greater. If all remain sober fur
! Their trouble may he averted. but too much
whisky might provoke disastrous COLLISION.
| The striking miners assert poFNvely
| they will not work at the proposed reduc-
| ton while the operators are Just as poSi-
! tive they will not yield. There IS no tell
ing what the end will be.
| An Uneasy Feeling Prevails
Knoxville. Tenn, August 11.-(Spccial.)
| Though apparently quletude has reiShed
| all day i'll the mining regions, such Is not
! the case. Reports from there say that the
| cXcHtIlltnL Is Ut ltNtI NEAT anu 'tlN HA1H''
| ton is growing more serious hourly.
! The miners are all still out on the strike,
| which was inauguratcd yesterday. They
| are reported as drinking heavily and Il clash
! between the state militia and miners now
| seems unavoidable.
| Considerable excitement prevailed here
| today when Captain Miller, of Company
! d. received orders from Adjutant General
! John A. Fitc to hold his company In readr
! ness and be prepared to go to Coal Creek at
| a moments notice. The companies at Chat
| tanooga and elsewhere also have received
! the same orders.
The soldiers have held Il meeting tonight
! and are prepared to leave at once when
! ordered.
Wa. AN Innocent Man I.ynched"
The body Of Dick Drummond, the man
| who was lynchcd brought to Knox
| vile today 1t now looks like an innocent
man was lynchcd nj Briceyillc yesterday
! morning if the statements of w. X. Lam
| drum. Mrs. Landrum and man, named
| Peek. are true. Landrum's wife positively
| swcarS that Drummond the man who was
vnched and who boards ut her house. was
! in his room from 5 o'clock of the night
| Laughtcy was murdered until breakfast
! time the next morning. Peek, who is also
| Il boardcr in the house. is positive OF the
| same thing, and Landrum. while not being
| able to swear to this. thinks that all the
| circumstances point to that fact.
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| Tucker, Atlanta, Ga, giving your Symp-
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| list.
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