Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-08-19

In bed and seeing something lying
near, or partly under her bed, she
put out her hand, touched it and
found that it was person. jump
ing out OF bed, she called loudly for Bill
10 protect her.. Near her was a double
barreled shotgun. She gathered this and
cooked 1T to shoot, but the boy, who
proved to be Bill, sprang out of the win
dow and ran off before she could fire.
Mrs. Smith took the gun and went to the
house of j. M. Smith, her step-brother,
nearly half mile away, who went with
others to capture Bill, but he had fed and
is still at large. MIR. Smith lives just in
the edge Of town, and there is no other
person living near him. 1t is not known
what BilPs fate will be II caught.
A Macon man was on an excursion
train which carried a motley crowd to
Brunswick Sunday. On thereturn whisky
after passing Jesup the crowds in the
several cars began to grow boisterous.
Pistols were drawn and 1lourished above
the heads of passengers, men staggered
up and down the aisles cursing and using
all sorts Of menaces and vile language.
The train men tried in vain
to quell the boisterous mob,
but they were powerless in
the hands of the gang. In the coiored
burly negro rushed TO the train lamps and
eXtinguished them, and left him in state
| or mind. He was afraid to 60 to the other
car for lear OF being shot, and he crept out
! at the door and sat down on the platform.
Another white man sat down on the oppo-
site side, and after nodding little he fell
and went tumbling down an embankment
by the roadside. Pistols began cracking
about the time the train passed Surrency,
nd in fax In ho in VUh
were the maddened negroes was splashed
and spattered with African gore. One
man was shot through the neck and died
outright. A second was shot through the
body, and the ball lodged near his back
bone, and the wound was considered NOR
tai. A third was shot through the arm,
and other reports say that two others
were wounded, one in the leg and
the other in the foot. One fellow
bottle, and it is said he will die.
Another report SAYS that the row occurred
near Satilla, and that John Woodward, a
| negro laborer at the Johnsonville lumber
mills, fired the pistol shots. According
to this report Woodward was one OF q
| large gang of the excursionists that got
| on at this point, and that he wantonly
| fired his pistol into the crowded car, and
that three of the negroes received
Another gentleman gives the name OF
the negro shot Ia the abdomen as Elias
Sellers, who lived at Baxley, and was
there put off. Ed. Williams was the man
| shot through the throat. and it is supposed
that the jugular was severed, as the
| blood was squirting from his wound
when he was discovered, and 1t was
| thought to be mortal. He was put of
| at 9:15 two miles from Lumber City. Be-
| fore leaving the car he suffered so much
that his leg and arm were drawn upward
and at last his body was raised to sit
ting posture by his agony. Five shots
were fired in that coach which can be &C
counted for. Three OF the bullets passed
through the car and the other two we're in
the bodies. The white men fred all the
shots from their car, and at the windows
as evidenced by the absence OF shot holes
in the car, except the broken glass in the
windows. They swore that no negro
should enter the car to brighten the ladies
and they stuck to it. When the negroes
passed from one car to the other they were
compelled to wait until halt was made
and then get out and go around. Wood
ward escaped in his shirt sleeves, neal
Bailey. -.