The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-09-10
A SOCIAL EQUALITY ROW.
NEGROES FORCIBLY ELECTED
FROM a CAR.

4 Five Ebony-Hued Dudes With Dust
ers. High Collars and Derbys Insist
I on Riding in Coach Among the
White Female Passen zers-Resident
of Bailey Play Bouncsr.
BAILEY, GA, Sept. 9.-The usually
quiet town Of Baxley was thrown into q
furry Of excitement this morning By an
but vas as sensational as il was brief It is
termed by the Bax ey DO "a F Ircib'e Lee
| ture on Social Equality" As the north bound
passenger train, which arrived here at as
O'Clock this morning, drew up to the depot
the News correspondent, who was ap-
preaching and was within fifty yards OF
it, noticed that there we're hurrying to the
depot, a number of persons from different
directions.
EVIDENTLY BENT ON BUSINESS.
Old men and young men all seemed bent
on going to the Grain.
IL was evident that they we're not going
away upon the train as the majority OF
I them were in their Dir sleeves and work
ing garb and 1t vas equally as ain tn II
they were going TO thai train 10 do some
! thing, and without any talking, either, for
| nobody sail anything or seemed inclined TO
say ythilg. The News correspondent
hardly had time to conjecture the cause of
AL TINS excitement before the train came to
a.stJp
a PELL-MELL RUSH.
The next moment there was a pell nell
rush for the ,ors of tie first-class car by
the crowd. Some skrnls ing and a few
blows we're heard on the in ,ide, when out
o. mi in,
aid Derby. As he cleared the door
some one dealt him a severe blow
that caused hurried separation
between the duster a d derby and the
negro fou ID hi nsef on the floor of the car
for uegroes. Five more brothers in black
with dusers, high collars and derbies were
assisted making a similar change from
the tirst-class o the car for negroes. By
this time the train m we'd away aud the
Baxleyites quietly returned to their busi-
ness.
WHAT 1T WAS ABOUT.
The negroes boarded the train at Jesup,
and in So te of the rem Insurance. and kindly
advice Of the car porters, took seats in tue
ladies' car among several white ladies. 4
few minutes before the train reached Bax-
ley, some one informed the operator over
| the wire, and the report soon became current,
with this result above stated. The people of
Juls SecUlon believe IN giving the cOOred
people their rights, bu5 they do not believe
in social equality, and have blunt way of
| expressing their sentiment on this question.
THE PARTY REACHES ATLANTA.
ATLANTA, GA, Sept 9-By the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
train that reached here tonight arrived
two colored citizens, Deacon j. H. Brown
| of Savannah and Rev. G.. NJ. Sprattling Of
| Brunswick, who bore conspicuous marks of
mob violence inflicted at Baxley about
| o'clock to-day. Brown, Sprattling, and
other negroes we're on their way to attend
a big Baptist meeting at Indianapolis
| When the train reached Baxley they we're
| found riding in the ladies' coach. Accord
ing to their statement about forty white
men boarded the train, shouting, "Where
are they" The train hands pOintei the
negroes out, when they were set upon by
the Bailey men, beaten, cuffed, kicked and
elected from the coach.
NATURE OF THEIR INJURIES.
Brow after being kicked from the plat
| form, was struck across his head with au
iron bar, painful injury being infli ted on
his bead, ear I'd neck. Sprattling was
struck on the arm with a broken gun bar
| rel, whica cut like a knife, severing as he
claims, an artery, SO that he came near
bleeding to de tn. Their injuries were
dressed hastily by doctor at Lumber City.
and were afterwa dat,ended TO here. Their
injuries are not at all serious, but ugly.
| The negroes claim that no effort ha been
made to eject them from the car prior to
the assault. Both give sounding Baptist
titles.