Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-07-16
AN lMPRoMPTU DUEL
Breaks Up the CoIored Camp Nest
At Martins Ferry Last Might've colored
Brothers Draw Iron and Wound
Each 0ther-A Scared
Crowd.

A highly colored act, not religious and
not down in the programme, took place ut
the Martins Ferry camp meeting OF the
colored brethren last night. The grove
had been crowded all afternoon. When the
morning rain was over and the day gave
promise Of being fair, immense crowds
went to the grove and fairly packed it
Evening found just as many people there,
and when the special act came on it had
plenty of witnesses.
James Jackson, Q colored brother EN-
ployed at McCord's brick yard at Martins
Ferry. was one of the participants, and
seems to have been the aggressor. The
other principal was Dave Grant, a we'll
known colored carter Of this city. Dave is
a saddle colored o&e, and though he has a
surly look he has a very good disposition.
Jackson was on his muscle during the day,
and frequently volunteered the assertion
he could clean out anything on the ground:
He had a war OF words with Grant and
nothing came of it, though the men were
at dageers drawn ~afterward. At evening
Jackson, who evidently meant business,
went home and removed his Sunday
clothes, reappearing on the ground with
his common rags on. Soon aiterWaru ne
and Grant met, and then
ACCOUNTS DIFFER.
A dozen "eye witnesses each had a diff
ferent story to tell. However they came
together, shots were fired and both men
wounded. Jackson received a ball under
the chin, coming out near the ear, ana
Grant had a flesh wound on the forehead;
Jackson retreated from the bushes and
Grant disappeared. -,
A gentleman who saw the fight said the
two men clenched and Grant struck jack
son over the head with the butt OF his pis.
tol. At the same time a shot was fired
from behind a tree by a third party. The
struggle took place on the edge OF the
grove and the participants soon got down
among the paw-paw bushes. Several shots
we're fired and Jackson came staggering
back from the bushes, with blood on his
face. while Grant disappeared.
JAcKsoN's VERSION.
Jackson was taken to his home and DR..
Williams dressed the wound. A REGISTER
reporter saT him and got the following:
There was an old grudge betwixt him
and me, and some friends got us to make
up. / went up to shake hands and he
pulled out his pop" and began firing,
caught me. The third missed, and the
fourth time be shot himself. Then be ran
away. | didn't have any pistol at ALL"
Grant came down and crossed the river
in a skiff, his face being quite bloody. The
police on this side were notified and were
on the lookout, but at this writing he has
not been apprehended.
The affair created almost a panic in the
crowded grove and the excitement ran
high.
GRANTS SIDE.
About midnight, a REGISTER reporter
found Grant ON Market street and got his
version. He says there was an old feud
between the darkies of the two cities and
that Jackson bullyragged him all day in a
saloon over there. Finally he crowded
him and then, said Dave, II let him have
it," Dave is covered with bruises, which
be says he got from the crowd Of Jackson's
friends. No doubt Jackson was the ag-
gressor and got what he deserved.