Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-07-17

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long. The negro threw it over INTO Mr..
Mark Masters yard, and it was found
there about a week after the killing. Hood
| Is undoubtedly mistaken about cutting
! Mills twice, as only one wound was found
! on him. Witnesses who testified as the
cOroner's inquest said nothing about see
/ ing third man in the fight. One of them
I testified that blows were passed and that
! Mills was Knocked down. The negro,
! however, displays a scar on the side of his
/ chin which he saws was inflicted by the
| man who Knocked him down, Hood has
/ been lodged in the county Jail to await
/ trial.
Seven men were buried under the fall
/ ing timOers of a building on the western
and Atlantic railroad, near the Chess
1 Carley oil house, at Atlanta, Thursday
/ afternoon about l O'Clock One of the
men was seriously injured and four others
! were hurt. They are Lawrence Fox,
/ white, John p. Weaver, white, Alfred
| Moore, colored, William Bryant, colored.
| The other two who were hurt were not Sc
| riously Injured, and went to their homes
I soon after the accident. Fox was the
man most seriously injured. Mr.. FoN
was directing the masonry. He
was well advanced IN years,
aud in addition to being bruised and
! scratched by the timbers was, it is feared,
| injured internally. He was taken TO his
home at u Alexander street, and late
Thursday night was suffering Intensely.
His physicians are uncertain as to the re-
suit of his injuries. At the time the build
! ing fell Mr.. Fox was working on the out
side. His son and his nephew were both
working on the building at the same time,
| and were also injured, but only slightly.
Mr.. Weaver was experimenting the car
pentar work and was considerably
bruised and scratched by the
"a gt,.NN l,.,A n
jured so much as Mr.. Fox. All
| Moore, colored, was working with the
| masons, and was hurt almost as much as
Mr.. Fox. he was taken TO his home on
| Eliza alley and suffered gre al deal. 1t
was thought that his lett collar bone and
! left arm were broken. bryants injuries
We're principally scratches and bruises
! In addition to the ak mentioned several
| others were more or less bruised and sew
eral had very narrow escapes, especially
| Harry Cog Inns, who was working on the
| outside. Every upright timber IN the
| building was thrown fiat on the floor, and
the roof came down too. How those who
were inside escaped death by being
crushed cannot be explained.
At Arlington Thursday Ben F. James,
merchant, was shot by Prof l.. II.
Smith, the proprietor of the Smith Hotel.
| in the rear of j. III. Rawls' store. They
were grasping each others pistols when
James was shot. The bail entered the
rear of the left shoulder and lodged near
the surface Just under the other. The
wound is not deemed fatal. There had
been misunderstanding between Smith
and Ben James, but it was peaceably
settled long ago. On Tuesday Dave
! James, a brother OF Rem, was in town
| drinking and he saw Smith in Mr.. X NV
store and imagined that Smith bantt cred
| him for an attack. Dave fastened 20
| Ben's store and told him of 1t and begged
! Ben to give him a pistol. Ben wou'd
| not do It, but tried to control Dave and
keep him out OF difficulty. Dave j.
him and went to the show case AZ d
took out a large pOcketkaite and Went
back to smith. Smlth was sitting down
reading when Dave collared him and
waved a drawn knife over his bead. Seve-
raj men seized Dave and threw him down,
taking the knife from him; and, i'm tire
meantime, Smith drew No. 80 Smith d
WessOn seif-cocker and had it pOlnte at
Dave. Just at this period Ben James
walked into Rawls' store, thinking ne
might be able to get Dave off home ana
prevent a difficulty. When Ben saw
smith with his pistol drawn on Dave and
| in the act of shooting, he became very
| much excited and drew pistol and fired
at smith; put some one Knocked up his
| hand and the ball passed through the rim
| of Smiths hat. Smith shot then and the
ball was spent in the air overhead. Tnen
! they hitched and the damage was done
! before they could be separated. only about
| two out Of twenty-five being there to part
| them. In the scuftle Dave received
| a blow from a weight over his LEFT
| eye. Smiths hands were hurt from nod
/ ing James ListOl. Mr.. kaWis received
hurt on mis- right hand while attempting
| 10 separate them. Several fell down the
steps as they we're making their rather
| hurried exits during the shooting and re-
ceiyed sprained ankles. communal
| trial was held. and Dave James was
placed under 800 bond for assault
| with intent to murder" aud Ben James
! and Smith were placed under 800 bond
! each for the same ofense.