Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1885 — CHINESE STAMPEDED. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE STAMPEDED.

A House Containing Mongol laborers Attacked by a Mob Near Rock Springs. [Omaha special.] A dispatch received at Union Pacific headquarters states that a mob of White men attacked the section house at the old town of Rock Springs, Wyoming, three miles from the coal-mining town of the same name. The house was occupied by thirty Chinamen employed as railroad section men. The mob yelled and shouted, fired a volley of revolver shots into the air, and bombarded the house with clubs and stones, and smashed every window. The Chinamen were frightened nearly to death, supposing that another massacre was about to be perpetrated.,. They ran out of the house and fled totbe neighboring hills, whem they remained all night, suffering intensely from cold, as they were but half clad.