Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-08-28
SPECIAL 4BGSPATCHF2,
FROM LAWRENCE, KANSAS.
General Lane in LsaVenWurth--
Preparing for Retaliation
Rebels Ordered to Leave
Terrible Retribution
is Threatened.
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General Lane has returned to Lawrence.
A meeting was held on his return. Lane
said the citizens had killep fOrty-One of
ouantrelrs men. Majors Clark and Plumb
were announced. The people of Baldwin
disputed ouantrell in passing ford, and
say that if Plumb had done his duty, they
could have whipped the rebels.
Laue is organizing forces, and says he
will 60 into Missouri on the 9TH Of Sep
tember. He left Generrl Ewing only on a
pledge that Ewing wovld issue an order d.
recting all the citizens of Jackson, Cass,
Bates, and part of Vernon Counties, en-
eept those in Kansas City, WestpOrt, Har-
risOnville, and Independence, to leave
those counties within fifteen days.
Ewing has issued an order, and the peo-
pie of Kansas are going into Missouri to
see the order executed.
The people have demanded the order is
suedby the General commanding, and the
people wsll see it executed. They say they
will have no more Of the ,schOfsld-Ewing
orders.
About fifty Of the most noted secesh of
Platte Comfy, have subscribed from one
to ten dollars each for the Lawrence fund.
Ry so doing they expect to escape the an
ticipated devastation of Western Missouri.
General Ewing has returned to Kansas
City.
Quantrell had with him Sam. Hayes, |
brother of 0. P. Hayes, Dick Yesger, Holt,
George Todd and Younger, with one hun
dred and fifty men, on whom they could
depend in a fight, with about $50 more of
the citizens Of Platte, Clay, Lafayette,
Jackson, Cass and Bates Counties-not
over 300 in all. Quantrelps men are to-
nigh reported scattered in Missouri.
Martial law is published in Leaven-
worth, but is practically null, as there are
no Provost Marshal or soldiers here to en-
force it, and nothing to do if they were
here. Martial law opened as farce and
ended in a fearful tragedy.
Up to this morning 1873 bodies were bu-
ried in Lawrence. The remains Of seven
more bodies were found. One hundred
md eighty-twO buildings were burned;
eighty of them we're brick, and sixty-fve
If them were on Massachusetts street.
There are eighty-fve widows and two
hundred and forty orphans made by Quan-
relps raid.
Lane has commenced rebuilding his
louse. Three men have subscribed 500,
700 to rebuild the Free State uotel, known
Is the Eldridge Hotel. Several merchants
nave commenced rebuilding. All the Ia
'ofing men in town will be set at work
O-mOrrOw to clear of the ruins. In spite
'fthe terrible calamity, the people are in
good spirits. All the towns in the State
nave sent in large sums Of money. Even
he men burned out on Qusntrelrs retreat
nave sent in loads of vegetables and pro-
visions. A man was to day tried, in Law
renee, and found guilty Of being spy for
luantrell, and was hung.
The Chiefs of the civilized Indians, of
he Delawares, sscs, and Foxes, offered
heir services to Lane.
Reports just in, say the buildings in
Cass County, Missouri, are on fire, and
over one hundred of the sympathizers are
killed. A fearful retributiOn, no doubt,
awaits Missouri.