Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1898-12-13
TWO AGAINST A MOB.
An OLD TIME MISSISSIPPI RIVER
SHOOTING scRAPg.


zone Of the worst shooting scrape-
that ever happened along the Missis.
sippi river" began the man Ut the
wheel, relaxing his hold on the tiIler.
which had been hard down. and per.
hitting It TO spin around with the
velocity Of top, took place out there,
just above the mouth Of the bayou.
about ~ years ago, when they burned
the old pOstoiiice and the warehouse
You can sec where they stood by the
piles u bricks there on the bank.
All admitted the ruins were plainly
visible, when be- changed 10 the up.
posite side Of the wheel, aud after
spirited effort made % countcmct too
effects ~ an impinging current that
bad caused tho boat 20 sweryo from hor
course be- continued:
THE boat that / was on bad r.f
caught IN the fog, and we tied up 900
der the point there about D O'Clock ll
the afternoon, and o. Doc 90 us wcas 10
shore 20 take q little exercise lt $500.
On Saturday, and % good many people
bad come in from the country t0 dl
their trading aud gat thoir mail Some
of them were pitching qu0it and others
shooting 100 % mark when we fIrt nU".
ed. but they Iuit when they saw tHa
man carry tha mail bag wo bad brought
and went Boo and stood around waiting
fur the letters 90 Do sorted They mI
all been drinking lnd were rrotiyuH.l
When tAu postmaster -hid thDrn w,t
only two l0ttDr and that they WUfa
both for Bud johnson. r0lUrtl man.
a mufmur " di.aprr1,al went aguuui
aud several Of them insisted ouu u.w
donl
" 'You can look for your.elye.. ld
the postmaster. tossing them the l.t
but after searching aud finding itonIr
they wcU in worse frame ~ u %
than ever Presently ono 81 tho n.n.
Der. % local politician. g0t up and uHH
a speech dgrngaiory 90 the udmin.fr
tion DO insisted that ths government
was preJud.rcl against white FOLKS. and
that he bad 300 uso Tor che office any
how sevcal ~ the others present o.,
pressed thrir approval Uf this m
maut, and general smashing up Uff.
,yiAlng 900 n.a followed During f.r
row tho coal 90 lamp was irUseu D..
house Pc uu fire aud everything burn
up
"Colouol Bunch. who owned t.e.
property, noticing the fire. umr u1
from his plantation below AMI %.
n0uucci the perpetrators Of the outma.
~ yandals The colonel was Boo
spirited man mud didn't stand nny fu.I
ishne-s. hut was getting along iu YEAR
now and couldn't do much tut talk .n
that when one n the men declared I1
could whip any Bunch un earth hr
Booked like ho felt himself In % pretty
close place but the colonel stood hIs
ground until 20 last, when the contend
ing parties were about 90 como Co blows
his son appeared upon the scene. aud
learning the cause II the trouble, spraug
between the two, aud. drawing his o.
volyer, said, My name Is Bunch, aud
when my father gets % bo too old 20
defend himself can stand In his tricks
and take his part.
AT this Junoturo the shooting com
menced, and made for the boat. Nv.
erybody seemed 20 take sides against
the Bunchos, and you would have
thought them a band u guerrillas from
the way they kept tho fight up. Pres
emily | noticed the colonel roll down
the bank aud stop just Mt the edge II
the water, and then his son came stag
gering down, too, and fell near his side
They were both dead We wanted 10
leave, but the men were afraid to go ON
shore 60 unite the lines. for tho infuri
ated crowd was still calling Tor more
lunches aud the oolored man who had
got tho letters, but be had climbed
troo and they didn't know where be-
was An hour or 80 later, when tho
crowd had dispersed, no slid down from
his hiding place. oamo aboard the boat
aud we had him IN the hold until we
got away and be was over his fright
llo said there were five men lying On
the bank that the Bunchos had killed
before they fell