Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1894 — “GRIM VISAGED WAR.” [ARTICLE]

“GRIM VISAGED WAR.”

Actual Hostilities on Hoosier Soil. Strikers Fire on the Militia at Farmers-burg-Martial Law Probable. ' A dispatch to the Indianapolis Journal from Terre Haute, dated 2 a. m. June 7, says: There is seriqjia trouble on at Farmersburg. The militia have been fired upon, and at this hour (2 o’clock) there is so much excitement at the town that the extent of the battle cannot be definitely ascertained. At 1 o’clock this morning Adjutant Parks, of one of the Terre Haute companies, telegraphed that the strikers had fired on the picket line, and that fifty shots had been exchanged between soldiers and miners. He added that the excitement was so great that it could not be discovered whether any one was injured or not. His last lines were that the officers had the scrimmage well to their advantage. It would seem that the fight occurred about midnight, according to the message of Lieut. Parks, who is a reliable man. Two companies were ordered up from Shelburn at 1 o’clock this morning to join those at Farmersburg. They are marching on foot. Col. Ebel is in command at Farmersburg, and his men have been occupying coaches, with a strong guard line thrown around and all night campfires in the gully beside the track. It is believed here that the attacking party of miners must have come up the branch from Alum Cave, one of the strongholds of the Anarchists. At 3:20 a. m. Adjutant-General Robbins, at Indianapolis, received an official report of the battle at Farmersburg, with the information that none of the militia were injured. Great excitement is reported at Farmersburg, and it supposed that some of the miners have been injured.