The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-11
LYNoH1Na AT COAL CREEK.
A Miner Said to Have Been Put
to Death by Soldiers.

Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 10.-A Knoxville
special to the Banner says; Meager in
formation from Coal Greek is to the eff
feet that q miner named Drummond was
lynched at that place to-day by the sol
diers. He had been held under arrest,
charged with being leader of the mob
which assassinated private Laugherty
Monday night. DrummOnd was hanged
to trestle, being taken by the soldiers
from his boarding house. a man named
Elkins, suspected of completely in the
murder of Laugherty, viii probably be
nched,
ANOTHER WINER UNDER ARREST.
A miner by the name of More has been
arrested, and summary vengeance may be
wreaked on him. Affairs are assuming
serious shape in the mining region, and
more trouble is expected. To-day one
thousand miners went out on strike, and
work is at a standstill in all the mines ex-
cept those of the Knoxville Iron Company,
which work all convicts.
THE CAUSE OF THE STRIKE
Is the action of the operators in trying
to get the men to accept a reduction of 20
per cent. on coal digging and gice them
like reduction in rents and store pro-
visions.
The miners refused to accept the re-
duction and have left the mines. No
mines are being operated except those
employing convicts, and with so many
idle, the danger of trouble becomes
greater. If all remain sober, further
trouble may be averted, but
TOO MUCH WHISKY
might provoke disastrous collisions. The
striking miners assert positively that
they will not work at the proposed re
651pfiCO xyrlafla tho o.. i1,c+
positive that they will not yield. There
is no telling what the end will be-
MORE CIRCUMsTANTIAI. ACCOUNT.
Knoxville Tenn, Aug. 10.-A sequel to
the assassination of Private Laugherty of
the State Guards, on duty at Coal Creek,
Monday night, was the lynching of Dick
Drummond, a miner, at the same place
at 2 o'clock this morning. Drummond
was boarding at the house Squire Ian
drum" and was working in Sham Creek
mines. About O'Clock the militia sur
rounded the house and demanded Drum
mond. There were twenty-five or thirty
soldiers dressed in uniform and carrying
GUNS WITH FIXED BAYoNETs.
They went to Drummond's room. He
had gone down stairs in the kitchen,
where he locked the door and refused to
surrender except to the sheriff, and he
was told that the authority for his arrest
was higher than that of the sheriff At
last he agreed to surrender and did. He
was once soldier of the marine service.
THE LYNCHING.
He was marched from the boarding
house. and a teamster in the military in
the camps, it was noticed, carried a hemp
rope. At daylight this morning Drum
mond's body was found hanging from a
railroad trestle a few hundred yards from
where he was arrested. The motive for
lynching him was that he had been one
of party that ran the soldiers Off from a
house of i'll fame a few weeks ago, and it
is further charged that he was with the
party that killed Laugherty.
BITTER FEELING OF LONG STANDING.
There has been bad blood between the
soldiers and miners for a year, and
serious trouble is feared The situation
is complicated by the fact that nearly
500 miners are out of the mines to-day.
Some time ago operators gave notice of a
reduction in wages of 20 per cent. to take
effect to-day.