The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-10-10
ONE DEAD AND
ANOTHER DYING
MANS NECK WAS BROKEN
Is AT THE POINT OF DEATH IN
GEORGIA INFIRMARY.

the Boy Who Had Both Legs
NIanGIed, Died Yesterday and His
Father. John H. barnes, Cannot
Live-DeIay in Handling Injured
Charged to Street Car Company
and Riot Was Almost Precipi-
tated-OHicers Were Rushed TO the
scene.
One of the victims of the accident on
the Isle of Hope line Saturday night
died yesterday and another has his
neck broken. and cannot possibly re-
cover. The woman was not so serious
ly injured as was at first thought, and
will probably recover.
The three injured were husband, wife
and son, all colored. Edgar Barnes,
the boy, had both legs so badly man
gled that they had to be amputated,
and he died later at the Georgia In
Urinary, where both he and his father
were carried.
John S. Barnes had his neck broken
by being thrown from the wagon. He
was in a dying condition all of yester-
day, and his survival so long after
such an accident is regarded as al
most miraculous.
Emma Barnes. the wife and mother,
had a scalp wound, had both legs cut
and was badly bruised about the body.
Several stitches had to be taken in the
scalp wound and also in the cut in the
leg. She was carried on a car to the
office of DIR. w. E. Norton, on Ogle-
thorpe avenue, where DR.. Walter Nor
ton dressed her wounds. She was aft
erwards sent to her home on the Wat
ers road. near where the accident oc-
CURED.
Riot Almost Precipitated.
Two hours after the accident a riot
was almost precipitated on an out
going car by Frank Barnes, a son of
the man and woman hurt. BY rea-
son of the accident no car left the For
tieth street junction for the Isle of
Hope until after midnight. There were
a number of negroes on the car and
some few white people, including two
or three ladies. The boy SEEM
ed wild over the injury to
his parents and brother and
was exciting the other negro passen-
gers. Trouble seemed probable and the
car, after running down to the Bull
street crossing, was stopped. The la
dies left the car and most of the white
men also got off.
Police assistance was telephoned for
and number of officers were rushed
TO the scene. The negroes are said
to have threatened to kill the motor
man and conductor and wreck the car.
Some of the people on the car, how
ever, say this is not true.
Arrested, but Released.
When the car stopped at Bull street,
the Barnes boy took his bicycle and
went on. According to reports made
Detective Nose Davis, who had hur-
ried to the scene, the boy had threaten
ed to go ahead and wreck the car.
The officer was not told who the boy
was, but a description of him was
given, and the detective followed and
arrested him.
He was brought back to the junction
turned over to other officers, and sent
to Police Station. Officers of the street
railroad, however, requested that he
be released, and this was done. De-
tective Davis did not learn until yes
terday that the boy had been releas-
ed and he was not at all pleased about
it. He said he arrested the boy on
statements made him by white peo-
pl0y VIM we're dlTdlQ 10 OH
the car. He did so for the protection
of the public and not for the street
railroad and he did not like the Of
ficialS interfering. The boy will prob
ably not be re-arrested, though, as
it is not thought he was responsible
at the time for anything he may have
said. 1t is very well, however, that
he was taken in charge for time, as
he was exciting other negroes and
trouble would have probably follow
ed. When a car finally left for Isle
of Hope, after 1 O'Clock, Detective
Davis accompanied 1t, as passengers
would not go without an officer.
Delay Is Charged.
Responsible parties, who were pres
ent at the junction when the car ar
rived from the scene of the accident
with the injured. say there was long
delay in getting the negroes to the hos
pital though officials of the street
railway deny this. Messrs. Allen II.
Chapman and Robert +. Browder, who
were at the junction when the car
arrived, say it was at least forty min
utes before the ambulance reached
there, and that it was ten or fifteen
minutes after the ambulance arrived
before the first of the negroes, the boy.
was put into it, And even then. they
say. the boy was placed in the ambu-
4dhNe ny biutIb oi MI. Cnlpman ana
over the protests of the street car men.
The negroes around there were begin
ming to get excited over the long de-
lay, they say, and Mr.. Chapman as
sumed the responsibility of ordering
the boy moved.
stopped from Office.
Mr.. Chipman and Mr.. Browder say
they left uptown about 1l:15 o'clock
TO go to Montgomery to fish. They ar
rived at the junction at 1880 and a
few minutes later the car from Isle Of
Hope came up. AS it came up, they
say, some negro called out not to get
on it that there were a lot Of people
badly mangled. There was a physi-
clan present. whom neither Of them
knew, and he gave his attention to
the injured. The physician gave some
kind of injunction. they say, to relieve
the suffering of the injured and stat
ed that the people should be carried
TO the hospital at once.
Mr.. Chapman says he himself got a
Jnotorman TO move the car across the
A g. b. belt tracks, so that Il could
be switched on to them and taken to
the Georgia Infirmary. After the car
had been carried across to get onto the
switch they say the conductor came
and stopped II. saying he had telephon-
ed the Office and been told By Mr.
Dixon not TO move the people until
the physicians for the road arrived.
Afterwards and before any of the
physicians for the railroad arrived,
they say the negroes in the crowd be-
gan TO complain at the delay and Mr.
ChiDman told some of them TO take