The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-10
THE WOUNDED MEN TALK.
They Give Their Account Of SatuT-
days RiOting.

We're Armed, They Claim, and Only
Five Shots Were Fired From Their
side-Tony Simmons Started the
Fight According to Their Belief and
Bob Priley Fired the First Shot
John Williams Says There Were
White Men Firing From the South
Side of Bay Street-AIl the Wounded
Doing Well.
Yesterday was very quiet day among
the longshoremen. No difficulties ofany
Importance were reported and the police
had almost nothing to do. II is hard to
say whether trouble will occur to-day or
not
A meeting of the union longshoremen
was held at the colored Odd Fellows
hall on Harris street last night at which
both white and colored members of the
union were present The meeting lasted
some time but what transpired could not
be learned. There may not be any work
on Berenguer ell Grande to-day. All the
cotton on the wharf was loaded aboard
the ship Saturday, and only sixty
five bales for the ship have been delivered
at the press so far Unless more cotton
can be secured to-day there will be no
work done on the ship. Sufficient
cotton will be on hand, however, to CON
tinue loading tomorrow.
Tha British steamship Altoona arrived
at the Central railroad wharf yesterday
morning. She will load cotton at the
Central press, and Col Harmon will be-
gin preparations to begin loading this
week. Two more steamers for cotton are
expected to arrive this week.
THE WOUNDED MEMS STORIES.
A MORNING News reporter interviewed
ell three of the men wounded in Satur-
days riots yesterday and obtained from
them their accounts of how the trouble
originated and who were the principalson
the other side. Cain, the white foreman,
who was nearly beaten to death, was
seen at the st. Joseph's Infrmary
He was very weak from his wounds,
and was not able to talk much.
Not being well acquainted with the
colored longshoreman, he could not
give the names of his assailants The re-
port that he came down the street at the
head of his men with a pistol in each
hand he denied. 81 only had one pistol, ."
he said, land that was in my sash partly
concealed. did not attempt to draw it
until after had been fired at and did not
succeed in drawing it then did not fire
a single shot l was knocked down and
beaten into insensibility in the very be-
ginning of the fight and did not recover
Consciousness until after the fight was all
over. Most of my wounds must have been
inflicted after l became insensible. l did
not anticipate any difficulty and was not
prepared forit. We were surrounded on
both sides by the longshoremen before
they made an attack upon US"
WILLIAMS STATEMENT.
John Williams, the colored foreman
who was shot through the Jaw, is at his
home on Farm street, near New street.
He was in considerable pain from his
wound and talked with difficulty, but
managed to give pretty full account of
the fight. Williams said. mir. Harmon
told us to go on down to the ship. We
started of and then l ran back and asked
him if he thought there was going to be
trouble. He said he thought not and told
us to go ahead. Mr.. Cain was in front
and was on one side of him and Adams
on the other. When we got down to the
green l saw great crowd of negroes
gathered there. l only saw one white
man in the Gro wd, "Doboy Bob" who
was standing off in the street little way
with anew base ball bat in his hand L don't
know whether he took any part in the
fight or not Mr.. Carney was walking up
and down in the middle of the street. The
negroes lined up on each side of the side
walk as we passed along. They were all
armed with sticks.
duplicates SEVERAL,
1--WE had gotten nearly to the end of
the street when Tommy Simmons iumped
In front of the line with big sticx in his
hand and ordered us to halt. repeating
the command several times Mr.. Cain
told him To 90 back, that he did not want
TO have any row, Bob Priley drew pis-
t0l and pointed 1t at Mr.. Cain, saying,
90 back, go back Gabe Young and
Abraham Brown had their pistols in their
hands pointed at US. When l saw Priley
start 10 shoot Mr. Cain ] started to draw
my pistol. Priley fired and several men
struck at Mr. Cain with sticks at the
same time, saw him fall and thought he
was shot. just as got my pistol outa ball
struck me IN the face and fell Two of
our boys propped me up. / saw a crowd
OF men kicking and jumping on Mr.. Cain
and beating him with sticks and / com
menced firing at them. l fired four shots.
shot myself through the finger once.
My pistol hung and couldn't fire the last
shot. looked over towards the other
sue OF Jne street and saw men firing out
OF the windows over Lanes saloon. There
was a crowd of white men in front of the
saloon, but they took no part in the
fight"
Williams was Intercepted particularly
on this point, and stated positively that
there were several white men firing from
the windows of the second story over
Lanes place.
THE CROWD RAN.
THE crowd ran back when thew saw
men firing so wildly at them, y he said. 81
suppose they thought was holding my
fire when my pistol hung. a crowd
chased some Of our men over on the other
side OF the street. beating them with
sticks, but they did not come at me. /
supposed that MIR. Cain was dead. and
Adams was gone, and was by myself.
so ! retreated back down the street.
was told TO 90 to Or. Nichols Office. and
got on the street car and went down
there"
Williams exhibited his pistol. IL Is a
cheap weapon, Of the bulldog pattern.
-Four Of the chambers were empty, and