The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-26
SAVANNAH. GA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 26 1885,

detachme {, stating that all was then quiet.
but he ordered the second detachment Of
Hussars to come up on the Albany express,
and when the train pulled out at S:45 it
took up sixteen men, making thirty
of the troop who answered the summons OF
the governor. The second detachment was
composed of the following men:
Lieut.. p. w. Meldrim.
Sergeant rhos. Hunter
Sergeant ] T. Shuptrine.
Corporal Gratz Myers.
Privates w. ID. Simkins. d. N. Nc
Alpin, j. G. Postell, Heary Alpin. Fred
Myers, Frank Myers, VIM Smallwood. DR..
A. 0. Best, g. II. Remsnart, C. A. Flem-
ing, Walter Coney, and H. Taylor, Jr.
City Marshal Wade, armed with a
Springfield rifle, and Frank Weldon, of the
Times, accompanied the detachment. Col.
j. II Deveaux NIT Lieut.. Meldrim at the
depot, and rendered the services of the
FIRST Georgia battalion, saying he would
hold 1t In readiness TO reenforce the Hussars
at mon' nts notice.
TAKING WOODS BODY HOME.
Train 7S, north-b 0und, pulled into the
depot shortly after 8 O'Clock. IL had ON
board the dead body of W. II. Woods, one
OF the victims of the riot. IL was In charge
CT X. ]. Woods, a brother of the deceased,
who was taking the remains 10 his
home at Ridgeland, s. C., for inter
ment The body was encased in q casket.
To MORNING NEWS reporter Mr.. r. j.
Woods related the story of the killing He
sald tnat nine negroes, armed with Win
chester rifles ana 3S-caliber revolvers.
opened fire upon the whites. who had been
summoned as a posse by Marshal LsggeUt.
to aid in arresti1g the negroes, who were
drunk and defiant of all law. Mr.. Wood
says that the whites were armed, and tina;
there must have been not less than 50C
shots fired.
SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.
His brother was shot through the head by
ball from a Winchester rifle, and his
uncle. w. s. Woods, a carpenter, living iu
Jesup, was shot in the right cheek, a
winchester ball blowing through his face
and coming out in the fieshy part of the
neck, near the ear. The wound, Mr.. Woods
thinks, is not fatal one. Assistant Mar.
shal w. w. Barnhill was struck in
the left side and killed by a
Winchester ball and Marshal B. R. Leggett
was wounded in both thigns. When Mr..
Woods left Jesup he said that one negro
had been killed and three captured, one of
whom had been shot through the hand and
through the ear, and the whites wers still
hunting the rioters in the swamp woods to
which they had retreated after a few
rounds. Mr.. Woods was under the i'm.
preston that the captured negroes would
be taken from the jail before daylight this
morning and lynched.
WOODS A YOUNG MAN.
W. H. Woods, who was killed, was a
young man of 81, and he and his brother
had been getting out cypress in the swamps.
The deceased was sober and industrious
young man, and unma ried.
In closing his interview, Mr. Woods was
asked If the whites had provoked any
trouble, and he said the contrary is true
that the whites were sober and orderly.
Brewer had remarked, in bringing his
armed force to town, that they wanted him
there, and he proposed ito have some fun
in that town before the day is over.n The
lawless acts were so fiagrant that
the officers had nothing left but to
attempt to suppress the disorder. and
this was tee excuse Brewer wanted, and
when called upon to submit to the law he
and his crowd opened fire with their rifles.
Conductor Gnann, who brought in train
70 last night, said that when he passed
through Jesup all was apparently quiet at
the station, but a gentleman at Jesup ex-
pressed to him the belief that the crisis had
not YET been reached.