People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1894 — TROOPS WITHDRAWN. [ARTICLE]

TROOPS WITHDRAWN.

The Race War in Brooks County, Ga., at an End. Savannah, Ga., Dec. 26.—A dispatch from Quitman, Ga., says the Brooks county war is over, and the list of killed is the same as previously reported. The captain of the Valdosta videttes, accompanied by his men, and Sheriff Thrasher, went over the entire neighborhood thoroughly and found everything as quiet and peaceful as in any country district. The Videttes left for home Tuesday afternoon. The reports sent out to some papers concerning the trouble have been greatly exaggerated. There has never has been a gathering of armed negroes, and no armed forces of whites and blacks have been drawn up, each awaiting an attack from the other. The subsequent excitement may have brought together probably 75 or 100 men. The general opinion now is that the bloody work of Saturday and Sunday night was done by a small body of men. Brooks county universally condemns the killing of the negroes, and if it is possible the guilty parties will be brought to justice. Pike, the murderer of Joe Isom, has made good his escape. Nothing definite has been heard of him since the night of tbe murder. His pursuers spent too much time scouring the immediate neighborhood, and he has, before now, put many miles between himself and his pursuers.