Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1889-08-18
sui ROSS THERE.
The Governor in Richmo nd in Con-
ference With the County Judge.
The Brennan Guards, Forty Strong, on
the Ground, and Other Troops
Ready to Go.
The Dead Are Buried-One of the Jay Bird Side
at Deaths DoOr-All Quiet
at Present.
ROSS GOES TO RICHMOND.

ROSS GOES TO RICHMOND.
Special to the Gazette.
BRENNAN, Tex, Aug. 17.-Govefnor Ross ar
rived in the city at O'Clock to-day and left at
O'Clock on the Santa Fe for Richmond, accom-
panied by Capt. j II. Byrnes and forty mem
bers of the BRENNAN Light Guard, to quel the
riot at Richmond. The artillery company expect
orders to morrow to come to the front with their
Calling guns.
THE CONDITION OF THE WOUNDED.
Special to the Gazette.
RICHMOND, TEX, Aug. T.-Everything has
been very quiet in town since the battle closed
last evening. The Houston Light Guards were
ordered here by telegram from Governor Ross.
They reached here on a special train about
O'Clock and have been guarding the courthouse
all day. Most of the Woodpeckers, including
the two wounded ones, Parker and Mason, are
still in the courthouse.
Governor Ross and Assistant Attorney General
P. II. Harrison arrived here at s O'Clock with
the Brennan Light Guards, forty in number.
The remains of Sheriff Garvey and J. w.
Blakely, the two killed, inferred at the
City cemetery at O'Clock this evening. Judge
Parker and H. Q. Mason, on the ''Woodpecker''
side, are doing as well as could be expected.
Mason's arm will have to be amputated. II. H.
Frost, the wounded Jaybird, at 8 80 is reported
dying. Gibson and Andrus, the other two
wounded Jaybirds, are both up, their wounds
being very slight. All business houses were
open and doing business as usual during the
day. No further trouble is anticipated, at least
for the present.
What steps will be taken by Governor Ross to-
morrow cannot be learned. A. Smith, the
wounded ranger, is doing well. No one is under
arms except the militia, and all are permitted to
pursue the even tenor of their way. No demon
STATIONS of any kind have been made by either
side during the day. Drs. CastletOn and Knox
of Houston are IN town attending the wounded.
Governor Ross has just finished supper, and will
have conference with the county judge to-
night.
RICHMOND QUIET ONCE MORE.
Special to the Gazette.
GALVESTON, Tex, Aug. II. From the time the
first telephone message was received last night,
that deadly riot was in progress at Richmond,
there has been an eager anxiety felt here to
dreadful affair. When it became known this
morning that Governor Ross had wired to Capt.
j. B. Aguilo of the Washington Guards ana
Capt. Charles Krautz of the Sealy Rifles to hold
their respective commands in readiness TO move
on to Richmond at moments notice,
it intensified the eagerness for news
from that unfortunate town. and it
was generally believed fighting had been re-
newed or was to be renewed between the fac
tions. Capts. Aguilo and Krautz replied to
Governor Ross Geographic command that they
would be in readiness to leave for Richmond at
moments notice. the former with twenty-four
and the latter with forty menout OF their res pee
tive companies. As the day wore and no
der came for these organizations to embark the
feeling that had prevailed, passed.
arrival ofsGoyernor Ross, accompanied by the
Rutherford rangers, at Richmond all doubts
as TO i renewal OF the COnQlcC between the TWO
factious were dispelled, and this was confirmed
by brief dispatch to the effect that order and
quiet prevailed at Richmond. Sheriff Garvey,
ex-sherif Blakely and others reported killed or
wounded in yesterday fight We're well known
here. Sheriff Garvey had resided here for the
past eighteen months, and he had been fire.
quently prevailed on by his friends here TO leave
Richmond, and out OF consideration
fort at one time to transfer
his Office to deputy, but this met with so much
bitter opposition at Richmond that he deter
mined to serve his term out or die in the dis
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bereaved wife and family left the city this morn
ing to pay the last sad rites to a devoted,
tender, brave husband and father. whose
body received sepulcher tins evening. There
are several families who have fed
from Richmond and Fort Bend county
to this city, and will sacrifice ali they have
rather than return. They represent that under
the existing state of affairs lie and property are
insecure, and will continue to be until the two
political factions, yeclept ''Jaybirds'' and
''WoodpeckerS. - which now dominate the coun-
ty, are completely suppressed.