The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-03-09
Discharged Soldiers Terrorize the
People of Southern lows.
MILITIA ORDERED OUT
TRAIN-LoADs OF SHOOTING,
YELLING BLACKS.
Met at Griffin By 200 Armed Men
Who Fired Into Train and Killed
a Trainman-Bullets Flew In Ev-
cry Direction-Were dubbed sat
Nashville.

Atlanta, Ca, March S.-The Tenth i'm
munes, colored, Colonel Jones COM
manding, who were mustered out ait
Macon today, began to show their i'll
temper as soon as the train bearing the
negroes home began to move out of
Macon. Producing revolvers and other
arms which they in some way man
aged TO smuggle with them, they began
firing from the windows.
Bullets flew in every direction as the
train sped on, and passers by were COM
PEELED to seek shelter. Luckily only
one person was shot in Macon, Will
Goodyear, a 16-year-old white boy,
whose arm was fractured by a ball. As
the train passed the various stations on
the road the rioting was renewed
shots being fired from the train at the
people standing on the platforms.
AT Griffin, Ca, where the first section
OF the train stopped at 2:30 eclock this
afternoon, occurred the most serious
trouble of the day. The regiment came
over the Central Georgia railroad in
three sections. When the train stopped
at Griffin the negroes, who, by this
time, had filed up on whisky, began
firing their pistols and yelling like In
dians. over 200 shots were fired and
the police were poWerlesS to resist. The
city was at the mercy of the negroes
who kept up a fusilade of shots until
the train was carried beyond the city
limits.
The news of the outrageous conduct
spread rapidly over Griffin, and it was
determined that the next section of the
regiment should be held in check.
Mayor Davis ordered out the Griffin
Rifles on his own responsibility, as
there was no time to lose. In addition
TO the militia, the mayor deputized
nearly hundred citizens to assist the
officers in preserving the peace and pro-
tecting the city.
About $40 the second section came in
sight, and above the roar of the train
could be heard the rattle of the fire
arms, which were being discharged in
discriminatory. When the train came to
a standstill the negroes saw 200 heavily
armed men, who commanded them to
keep quiet. The negroes were awed.
and with a few exceptions were as do
Gle as lambs. To those who proved
fractions cracked heads were admins
tered. When the train pulled out from
the depot and the negroes thought they
were out of reach of the citizens, they
began firing at houses. At the first
shot a volley was poured into the dis
appearing train by the citizens and mi
litia. Unfortunately George Agee, a
trainman, was shot in the abdomen and
fatally wounded, and one negro was
clipped on the shoulder by bullet.
As the several sections came into the
union depot here they were met by the
police reserve, heavily armed. The ne
groes were evidently awed and gave, the
police no trouble.
The Tenth was recruited from all
parts of the country. The negroes for
the most part are from North Carolina,
Georgia, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri
and Ohio. Nearly all of them We're sent
out of Atlanta to their destinations be-
fore the night was over