The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-06-04
INCIDENTS AT SHELBURN
Coal Cars Released by General
Mckee and 250 Militiamen.
Clay County Miners Outwitted by the
vandalia, Which Moved Three Coal
Trains on Passenger Trains Time.
Special to the Indianapolis Journal.

Speclal 10 the Indianapolis journal.
CANNELBURG, Ind, June 3.-Four hun
dred or more of Indiana's brave fully ac-
coutered with the trappings of war,
swooped down this calm Sunday morning
on the little mining village of Cannelburg
and found thirty harmless looking men
lined out on log, all whiting vigorously
on little sticks and splitting tobacco in a
desultory fashion down the line. The mob
of terrorizing miners was nowhere in sight,
and indeed there were no indications or
signs of violence. save three derailed coal
cars. the contents of which had been
dumpe1 down a slight embankment
The indianapolis soldiers and their COM
rades from other points in the State dis
embarked half mile east of Cannelburg
at O'Clock. and Adjutant- general Rob
bins. Sheriff Leming. of Daviess county, and
Charles Gardner, attorney of the Baltimore
& Ohio Southwestern railway, proceeded
to reconnoitre. The war correspondents
were courteously ordered to remain in the
rear out of the way of harm. and then the
voice of the Acknowledgement rang out:
"Order Captain Fees command, of Green
castle. in line"
The Putnam county soldiers acl1nowl-
edged their appreciation of the post of
marching towards the town, over the
railway tracks and down pref
ty stretch of country road. along
which wild roses and field flowers
grew almost In midsummer riot The Ad-
jutant-generals party was several hundred
feet in advance of the company, and after
a short march a trumpeter of the Second
Regiment came running up with an order
fro, Col Iar for he
pany to halt One Of General Robbins
aids replied that the company was march
ing under orders of the Adjutant7general
There was no conflict of authority. how
ever, and in a moment all was serene.
Company NJ of the Second Regiment, a
colored company of indianapolis, was the
second i'm line
VANISHED IN A TWINKLING.
A number of men could be seen near the
dismounted passenger coach that serves for
a railway station at Cannelburg, but when
the head of the column reached the spot a
number of them seemed to have vanished
in the passing of a moment. North of the
station is thick grove of young oak trees,
and it would have been an easy matter for
the miners to have beaten a retreat into
the depths of this grove. The thirty men
who whitfield were evidently a picket line,
for it is positively known that more than
a hundred miners were in the grove less
than six hours before the troops arrived.
The programme mapped out by General
Robbins and Colonel Ross was to have
Sheriff Leming read his bench war
rant at once to all the miners
he could gather together and then
with the assistance of a squad of soldiers,
arrest all the men named in the warrant
This warrant was issued by Judge Hefron
of Washington, on Thursday, for the ar
rest of Dick Gade, George X. Nolan
George Kelly, John Degman, VIM. r. Sum-
mers and John Flynn, on the charge OF
rotous conspiracy. The first mentioned four
have practically had charge of the miners
movement at Cannelburg, while the other
two were agitators. Summers is justice
of the peace, and Flynn is his son-in-law
Gade has been the most prominent of the
leaders, he is a man of commanding ap-
pearance, well educated, and a linguist be-
sides. 1t was anticipated that he would
show fight when the officers attempted &C
arrest him, but he quietly surrendered
when the sheriff called upon him at his
little cottage. There is also charge of con.
tempt against the men for refusing to obey
the restraining order of the court.
WATCHED THE SOLDIERS.
The thirty men on log gave little heed
to the reading of the warrant by the sher-
iff, turning their attention instead to the
formation of the troops into battalion lines
on the outskirt of the oak grove. None oi
the men whose names was mentioned were
in the small crowd, and those whe
would talk would give but little informa
ton as 10 the probable whereabouts Of the
men wanted The unloading OF the Gatlins
| gun broke the unity of the line on the
log and the bright. mysterious rrachin,
| gun was surrounded at respectful dis
| tance. After the reading of the warrant
| had been concluded the sheriff set abou
| TO find the men he wanted. while tn,
mlitiamen stacked arms and began to pre-
| pare for breakfast.
The manner in which the troops wer,
handled and the manner in which they
| handled themselves would have demanded
| the admiration of the most exacting dis
! ciDlinarian. The conduct OF the coloreC
troops was especially creditable. Dozens O
| men were sent TO the thicket for fire brush
] while others dug pits for fires and erectet