AMERICAN STRIKES.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIX, Issue 3136, 20 August 1892, Page 2

AMERICAN STRIKES.

(BY RLKCTIIIO TBLKORArH.—COPVUIQHT.) New YortK. August 17. As attempt made by miners iu Niishville tu relc-me tho convicts w.is defeated. Many persons wore wounded iu the encounter. Troops im: hastening to tlio .scone to assist in preserving order. Seven hundred miners at Olive Springs demanded that the convicts .should be released. A body of 2J soldiers barricaded thouisolves within the conviots' enclosure, and, firing low on the miners, conipletol} routed them killing five and wounding a large number. The miners intend to make another attack on the convicts, and have destroyed the railway leading ,o the town in order to xjrevent reinforcements of soldiers being sent. The Governor of the State is mediating in the dispute with regard to the employment of convict labour. Traffic is being resumed on the Lehigh section under the protection of troops. The switchmen on the New York Central line have struck work, which, with the Lohigh strike, ties up an enormous amount of traffic. The damage already caused by the railway riots at Buffalo is estimated at £50,000. August 18. More troops hove been ordered to proceed to Buffalo, and the country is patrolled for twenty-five miles. Tho militia in New York has been ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the scene of the disturbance. Washington, August 17. Tho miners at Nashville, Tennessee, made a second attack upon the prison, and after a desperate fight defeated the warders and released two hundred convicts. Twelve persons were killed and twenty wounded in. the affray. Troops are being massed, and the whole district is in a state of turmoil. The miners are blowing up the railways with dynamite to prevent the arrival of the troops The strikers at Buffalo were charged and dispersed by the soldiers. It is feared that the drivers and stokers.on the New York Central Line will also strike. August IS. Martial law has been proclaimed in Buffalo, and the Governor of Tennessee has called out thirteen thousand troops. At Court Creek, a body of six thousand miners drove the troops back six miles, capturing fifty of their number, whom they hold as hostages.