Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-07-07
WHITE VS.. BLACK.
A Lively Set-To Between Negroes and
White Men OH Train.
Views Of Hon. John 0, Terrell, Oandi
date for State Senator,
Specialize the Gazette.

Special to the Gazette.
FoRNEY, Ten, July G.-NTany Of our
sable inhabitants attended colored
celebration at Terrell yesterday, and
while feasting on the fat of the land,
seemed to have forgotten one Of the
Ten Commandments by rendering
themselves odious with temporary in
sanity" The west-bound train brought
back our dark eXcursionists entirely
too boisterous for practical purposes.
A Mr.. Cade Butler OF this place was
also ON the train, and noticing that
John WEIGH, one OF our most impu-
dent negroes, had completely block
AIDED the platform, thereby preventing
the passing of same ladies desiring to
enter, requested the copper colored
dignitary To stand aside, to which
Welch replied In substance: who
gives you authority? Are you the con
uuctor?n the sequence Of which was
that MIR. Buffers sledge-hammer fist
was most forcibly planted III Welch'e
temple, knocking him almost of the
car. The conductor succeeded in par
TALLY quelling this beginning OF "A
bloody contest, but fUssiDg, confusion
and lighting grew more intensc until
the train pulled up at Lawrence, when
Welch daripgly showed Butler oil the
train, mt the same time calling him n
----. Mr.. Butler forced himself
back into the car and would have
made darkness dream" with
| WEIGH had not four or five of WeIch's
| brethren cast themselves between.
| One negro especially, a Parson McGee,
rendered himself conspicuous by
calling To Welch: "Stand aside, John,
! let me have lick Ut the d-n - - -
-. can straighten him out" AT
this the conductor again succeeded la
quoting The row and kept it subdued
/ Till the train reached Forney, where
( Mr.. Butler, thoroughly nerved for re-
venge, struck for WEIGH, who, with
knife in hand, was passing up the
platform faster than inf SLOW l0pe.
! Mr.. MCGEE agaiip became conspicuous
by throwing himself In front of But
Ter and calling out: "Welch is Toe
small, fight u man OF your size" Mr..
! Butler, whose knife was closed In his
hand, began regular mall-ind.wedge
process upon McGee's head, the
''liquid Of life" issuing like
la water-spout at every blow
anu uituOugH Mcott louRut SuIidutiy
the crowd soon realized that few
more of Buffers Spartan blows would
end Notices mortal concerns, and &c
firmly were they clinched that 1t re-
quired the utmost strength OF Deputy
Sheriff Yates and Mr.. J. w. Record
two Of the strongest men in town, Il
pull them apart. Everything, ut this
lime, 10 quiet along the Potomac. Five
complaints, one against Butler, and
four against the negroes, bave been
filed In Justice LowelPs court, and
some Of the negroes 1--WE are glad 10 re-
late are ngitating the question OF emf
grafton. The drift OF conversation To
day Is that some OF our negroes nrt
growing entirely too big for their pan
falcons and must be reduced 10 theii
proper sphere, peaceabIy, II possible
forcbly II necessary.
These are a. nesr the Facts as by dill
igent efforts could be gathered BY
your correspondent. In our opinion
DO further trouble will grow Gus Of the
affair. From every indication, too
much whisky en- the part Of nli con