AMERICAN LABOUR RIOTS.
VIOLENT DOINGS IN TENNESSEE. CONVICTS LIBERATED AND RAILWAYS BLOWN UP. I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Washington, 17th August. The miners at Nashville, Tennessee, made a second attack upon the prison, and after a desperate fight defeated tho warders and released two hundred convicts. Twelve were killed and twenty wounded in tho affray. Troops are being massed, and the whole district is in a stato of turmoil. The miners aro blowing up railways with dynamite, to prevent tho arrival of tho soldiers. The strikers at Buffalo were charged and dispersed by the troops. It is feared that the drivers and stokers on tho New York Central lino will also Btrike. Latest. REINFORCEMENTS OF TROOPS. | UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. (Received August 19, 10.50 a.m.) New York, 18th August. More troops have been ordered to proceed to_ Buffalo, and the country is patrolled for 25 miles. The militia in Now York havo been ordered to be in readiness to proceed to the scene of the disturbance.
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Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 43, 19 August 1892, Page 2
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