Butts County GaArchives News.....Rowdyism on Train July 27, 1900
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Jackson Argus July 27, 1900
Excursionists Engage in a Row Saturday Night

Saturday, the Southern Railway ran an excursion from the stations along the 
road to Macon.  When the train arrived here it was crowded, and when the eighty 
odd passengers boarded the cars, every available space was taken up.  On the 
return trip, a lot of drunken hoodlums took possession of the train from Cork 
to Jackson.  A general row ensued between a crowd of drunken negroes and white 
men, in which one white man was badly cut, knives and pistols being the 
principal weapons used in the fight.

From Flovilla to this city, the train resembled an armed train in a running 
fight, with a drunken man at nearly every window shooting is pistol and making 
the welkin ring.  One white man came near being dashed headlong from a window 
for shooting his pistol in the face of a lady.  It was one of the most 
disgraceful scenes witnessed on the Southern road.

Jackson Argus – Butts County
Week of July 27, 1900


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