Birmingham age-herald., 1895-08-01
ALL IS QUIET AT BROOKS|DE Rumors of a Threatened Attack Prove Unfounded. WOMEN'S DISAPPEARANCE Caused Uneasness for Time-A Strong
 Force of Deputies on
 Guard.

Everything has quieted down at Rrook- side where the battle occurred Tuesday night between officers and negroes, and further trouble is not expected, though as precaution several deputy sheriffs were kept on guard there last night.
 For a while last night rumors of threatened attack by the negroes f1oated around camp but they were not well founded. The most suspicious circum- stance was the fact that all the negro women living in the vicinity of Tuesday nights fight had gone across the creek where they remained during the night. The negro quarters where Deputy Sher- if Wood was killed is located only a short distance from the company's office and the Southern railroad depot, and the fact that all the women had gone away from there tended to confirm the reports of threatened trouble.
 A telephone message from Rrookslde to the Age Herald at 10 o'clock stated that everything was quiet and that the lears of trouble which prevailed during the early part of the evening had about sub sided To auell any disturbance that might arise, however, a strong posse oi deputies was kept on the ground all night.
 The Age-Herald of yesterday stated that about a dozen negroes bel1eVed 10 have been implicated in the fight had been arrested. Sheriff Morrow inVestl- gated the matter and discharged three or four of them. The others, eight Tn number, were brought to the city on the Southern train at 5:15 yesterday morn ing and lodged in the county jail. one of these eight, Gardiner, it is claimed by the officers. fired one of the shots that killed Deputy Sheriff Wood. Two or three eye witnesses state that they saw him shoot Wood.
 Another one of the prisoners IS Charne Jenkins, a brother to the one who had the quarrel with Boss Driver Harris, which was the cause of the fight. There are witnesses who claim to have seen him shooting at the officers. George Hill Is another prisoner against whom good evidence is said to have been ob- tained Baxter and Harris, who were with Wood at the time the latter was killed, say they saw Hill shooting at them.
 Jim Bridges was arrested yesterday morning early. He is said to have been one of the leaders of the attacking party. The officers had one other of the leaders spotted last night land believed they would catch him before morning.
 Deputy Sheriffs Henry Cole and Tom Jones were left at 'Brookside by Sheriff Morrow yesterday morning to assist in apprehending the parties connected with the fight. The balance of the posse re- turned to the city with Sheriff Morrow, bringing with them the eight prisoners.
 The Age-Herald was informed by tele- phone message last night that one negro, badly wounded, had been found during the afternoon and that others who had succeeded in escaping were believed to have been shot.
 The report that two or three dead bodies had been found was still in cir culation last night, but no one who knew anything about it could be found The report was, therefore, discredited.
 When the Age-Herald reporter left Brookside yesterday morning Baxter, who received a flesh wound in the leg, was suffering intensely with his wound. Dr. Sholl, who had been called to see Mrs. Wood, administered opiates and emetics, and after short time she got easier and a t last reports was resting we'll
 While waiting al the depot for the train Mcclellan, a nephew of the dead officer, attempted to shoot Gardiner, the negro who is said to have killed Wood, but was prevented by officers. Mcclellan was devoted to his uncle and his grief at his untimely death was almost unbearable.
 Deputy Sheriff Woods remains will be brought to the city this morning and in tered at the Woodlawn cemetery some time today. His sister, Mrs. Mcclellan of Talladega, and his daughter who had been visiting in AnniSton, came over yes terday and went on to Brookside in the afternoon. The dead officer was one of the bravest men that ever held a commits sion and was we'll liked by everybody. He came to Birmingham from Talladega a few years ago, at the expira tion of his term as sheriff of that county. For two or three years he was one of the best snen on the Birmingham police force.