The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-08-29

persons of his protectors and fired, killing /
him instantly.
Eighteen out of twenty-five unarmed re-
cruits for the 18th regiment, mostly boys.
camped south of town, were murdered in
their tents.
Five bodies, burned to a crisp, near the
ruins of the Eldridge House, could not be
recognized.
Samuel Jones, blacksmith, was shot
down at his anvil-one of the first victims
In the Eldridge House there were some
forty or fifty guests. It was the intention
OF these fends, in the first place. 20 burn
these people in the house. r. >. Stevens
argued with QuantriIo, and finally they were
permitted to march out, alter being robbed,
and were furnished with guard to the City
Hotel Mr. Stevens did most noble work
in saying the inmates of the Edridge
House from massacre. To his intrepidity
and sagacity many are indebted for their
| lives.
Two men from Ohio were wounded in the
Eldridge House, and are now in Leaven-
worth. Only the presence and peremPtory
orders of Quantrile prevented the massacre
of all the occupants after they had been
marched out on the street. The rebels
were told there was negro baby still in the
house, but they said, eve will burn the
| Cd id little brat up''-and they did.
Gen. Colamore, one of the best men in
the State, went into his we'll to hide, and the
bad air killed him. His son and Pat Keefe
lost their lives in trying to get the father
out
Miss Stone. daughter of the proprietor OF
the City Hotel, had diamond ring stolen
from her finger. Quantrile obliged the
man to restore it. In revenge for this, the
rufians afterwards came back and shot her
father before the mothers eyes. They also
tried to kill Miss Stone.
Mr. Lynch (brother to G. G. Lynch, of
this county,, who slept in the express of
fee, saved a large amount of money by
throwing it into the vault of an clubhouse
near by. He also saved all the horses of
the Kansas Stage Company, by cutting
them loose and whipping them out of the
stable. A little presence of mind proved a
good thing, just then.
Several cases of remarkable bravery of
women are related by the reporter of the
Conservative. The wife of Sheriff Brown
three successive times put out the fire kin
died to burn the house. Her husband was
hidden under the floor. The house was
saved by this heroine. The life of S. A
Riggs, District Attorney, was saved by the
herolsm of his wife, who seized the bride
of the rebels horse, who attempted to shoot
him as lie ran. Miss Lydia Stone was busy
letting horses loose, etc. Mrs. John Speer
put out the fire on her dwelling after it had
been twice lighted; and Mrs. Judge Car
penter acted as bravely as Pocahontas, but
the rebels were more brutal than the Indian
Powhatan, for they killed her husband after
she had thrown herself upon his body.
Jacob Pike, of the Eastern House, saved
himself by jumping into the cistern, and
when taken out was almost frozen.
A rebel who was caught, and tried to
make his escape by breaking away and run
ming, was brought to the ground dead by
the musket of Willie Speer, a son of U. S.
Collector Speer, aged about 12 years.
The Offices of the Journal, Tribune, and
Republican, were leveled to the ground.
John Speer, Jr., of the Tribune, started for
his home from the office after the rebels
came in. A printer in the office tried to
induce him to accompany him into well
near by, for safety, but he would do nothing
but go home to defend the house, and was
killed
James Eldridge and James Perrine clerk
ed in 7. B. Eldridge's store-betler known
as the Country Store They were prom
ised protection if they would give up the
safe key, which they did, and fitted out the
rebels with the best clothing. After all
this, they were both killed in the store.
The books of the County and District
Clerks were burned. but those CT the Regis
ter of Deeds were in the safe, and are sup
posed to have been saved. Every safe in
the city was robbed.
All the hotels were destroyed except the
City Hotel. The first one set on Ere was
the Mansion House, where the rebels ex-
Pected to find large number of Red Legs,
but there was only one, and he escaped.
The loss in cash is estimated at $3.50, 900.
and in property and all, at $4,000, 600.
! That is low estimate
The number of bodies found ND to the