The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-10

Of the middle finger of the right hand and
fifth passed through the feshy portion
Of the outside of the left hand
Adams told much the same story Of the
| fight as Williams He said tina: Simmons
was the man who began the row By plant
ing himself in front of the non-union men
with a stick in his hand and bringing
them 10 a halt. That Bob Priley fired
the first shot. and that he then fired at
Priley. He had cheap little bulldog
pistol He fired one shot and then all his
other cartridges snapped
NEVER saw so MANY PISTOLS.
81 declare, boss, 80 he said. II never saw
so many pistols IN my life There was a
dozen men with pistols, and they all had
them in their hands and pointed right at
US Just as soon as Simmons stopped US
knew most Of the men that had pistols.
saw Tom Odom, DemaS Simmons, Bob
Prlley Gabe Young, Abraham Brown,
Tom Scott and man named White with
pistols. They are all members Of,the union
except OdOm, who handles rOsin on the
wharf for Shotter & Co. was a member
OF the union and they woul dn't give me
any work, so l pulled out and
went 70 Port Royal last year
When MIR. Harmon commenced 10 load
ships last year l came back and went to
work for him. / know all those men
named because have worked with them.
Mr.. Cain fell when Priley fired / saw
Brown, Odom, White and other men beat
ing and kicking him while he was lying
on the ground. | staid until everybody
had left me, and then | ran back down the
street to Col. Harmon's Office"
Williams said that the only white man
he saw with the rioters was
Robert Cassidy. He did not
know whether any shots had been
fired from the other side of the street
or not, as he did not take time to look
That way. Adams seemed very much
worked up at the manner in which Cain
was treated, and regretted very much
that his pistol was in such poor working
order at the time. He declared that if
the non-union men had been well armed
they could have whipped the other crowd.
he said that his house was visited by an
armed party early yesterday morning He
was not awake, but some women on the
other side of the street saw them. Col
Inns Chisholm, he said, was in the party
and was armed with Winchester rife.
WOULDN'T GO BACK IN THE UNION.
Adams, who seemed to be pretty well
posted on the movements of the unions,
said that during the summer the colored
union had taken in all its expelled mem
bers in order to prevent them working
for Col. Harmon. He and Williams were
the only cotton workers who refused to 20
into the union, he said, and this was the
reason why such an effort had been made
against them. By reason of these aces
siOns he estimated the strength of the
colored union at 400 men. On account of
the number of white cotton men who had
left the city, he said he did not think
there were over IS white longshOremen
in the city. He said that there
would be no difficulty in getting
all the men needed to work to load the
ships If they were properly protected
The police escort to and from work was
all right, he said, but it would not have
much effect so long as the men
were turned loose on Bay street
to be chased through the streets on the
way to their home by. the union men, as
was doEe Saturday night. Some of Col
Harmon 8 men were attacked and beaten
in the market, he said, and others were
attacked on the street.
THE NoN-UNIoN MEMS SIDE OF IT.
Several of Col. Harmon's men called at
the MORNING NEWS office last night to
give their account of the riot Their
story corroborated that told by Williams
and Adams
There was brickbatting in Yamacraw
CARLY SoobCludA AhOEllhB UCbWbbu SOLIl6 OF
the union men and some of Col Harmon's
men. Napoleon Houston, a union man,
was arrested by Officer King of the Ocean
Steamship police for threatening to kill
Sharper Byrd. a non-union man Byrd
said that five or six men came to his house
night and tried to get at him,
but he saw them coming and got away
Cuffy Butler stated that a gang of men
led by Barcas Butler and Peter Melrose
made an attack on him at 8 O'Clock yester-
day morning at West Boundary and Indian
street. He escaped them by running
1t will probably be decided to-day
whether the conference proposed by the
mayor between the ship brokers and the
union men will be held The brokers
have, so far, not signifed their willing
ness to enter into a conference. Many of
the longshOremen appear to be anxious
that conference should be held.
Whether they have any compromise to
offer they do not say
Mr.. T. f. Mahoney, Jr.. requests the
MORNING News to state that the report
that he pointed out Adam Morrell to Po-
liceman Neidlinger, as one of the rioters
on the Bay, is untrue