The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1863-08-28
THE WAR IN KAN SAS,
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Destruction Of Lawrence +!
AWFUL REBEL BARBARITY
Men. Women & Children
utchcFed iR Cold Blood
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TIfE TOWN IN RUINS!

SIN q CLOCK last evening inc NUeffiUNl
chief, Qrantril, with a force Of about
500 strong, crossed from Missouri in.
to- Arkansas, near the town ofGordu-l
ell, sixty miles below here und start |
eel for Lawrence, arriving before that
town Nt four o'clock this morning.
lie posted a guard around the city,
and the citizens could not essape,
and with the remainder of his menI
commenced pillaging stores, shootingl
citizens, and firing houses. A gen
'tleman who managed to escape, and.
secrcted himself in n cornfeld near
the town reports that he swan the riv-
er at eight 0 clock, and on reaching
the bluffs on this side had plain view
OF the city which then was Il sheet Of
flames. From what he saw he thinks
the loss would reach two millions.
and 10y this time perhaps much more;
as they seemed determined to DESTROY
everything that would burn. We can
not learn that any resistance was
made by the citizens, they being t0-
ken completely Ly surprise, the first
alarm being the cracking of flames
and shouts of the rebels. a large
number Of Union troops have been
sent in pursuit ofthc repcls, but with
what success. we have not vet learned.
Mayor Anthony of this city issued Il
proclamation stating to the people of
Leavenworth they need otapprehcnd
any trouble; but requests every able
bodied citizen to provide himself with
the best arms he can, and hold him
self in readiness to aid our friends in
any part of tho state at u moments
notice.
/ He censures the General commanding
of the district who, he says, with five
Thousand troops under his command
has allowed Il few hundred guerril-
las ~ get afss milaS into tho intarinr
burn . city destroy two millions worth
'of property, and intimates that the
citizens must depend upon themselves
for the defence of this city and state.
The Conservative publishes the fol-
lowing account of the Lawrence mas
= ,acre, from one Of its editors, just re-
turned from the ruins:
We arrived in Lawrence at : o.
clock. Flying rumors had painted Il
terribly picture, but the reality eX-
,cecded the report. We found Massa-
. chusetts street one mass Ofsmoulder-
ing ruins and crumbling walls, the
light from which cast sickening glare
upon the crowds of excited men aud
distracted women gazing upon the ru-
ins of their once happy homes and
;lprosperouS business.
Ouly two business houses were LEFT
upon this street, one known as the
Armory, and the other the old Miller
block About tvvonty five houses ir
all were burned, and only one or tive
escaped being ransacked and every
thing of value carried away or dc
T. lstrOyed.
. Six or eight soldiers camped upor
this side of the river, and who free
across at every rebel who appeared
upon the bank, deferred the towards
from destroying some Of the houses
4 near the ferry, and from cutting dowI
the ilag pole.
The force Of the rebels is variousl'
estimated ut from 80 to 400, Relia
bic parties place il at 800 Their ev
cry act during their stay in the cit,
was characterized 10y the most cow
. ardly barbarity. They entered 'th
town on the gallop, firing into ever,
house, and when the occupants sp
peared at the door, the were sho
: down like dogs. Five bodies wer
! bnrned TO a crisp, and lay near th
ruins Of the Eldridge House. The.
i could not bo recognized.
t.. Eighteen out of twenty-five IN
O armed colored recruits, ,camped sout
- of town, were murdered in their tent:
Their bodies lay in the colored churc
: when we arrived.
} Messrs. TraSk and DR.. Griswolt
Il Baker aud Thorp, were shot down i
If the yard of DR.. c., before the eyes
their families. Judge Carpenter Wa
:; wounded in his yard, and fell, whe
" his wife and sister threw themselve
uponhis body begging for mercy butt
no avail. The fiends dismounte'
stuck their pistols between the pc
sons of his protectors and fred.
d A Miss Stone, daughter If the pr,
A. prietor of the City Hotel, had u di
m mond ring stolen from her finger
Qusntril obliged the man TO restore
In revenge for this, the rutlians afte
70 ward came back and shot her faith
We before her mothers eyes. They ais
W trie to kill Miss stone.
Gen Collamore went into his We
en- to hide and the bad air killed him =
Ie His son and Patrick Knafe lost the
n lives trying to get the father on
The life of District Attorney Tigi
'e was saved by the heroism of his wi
OF who seized the bride Of the rebeI
as horse who attempted to shoot him
of,he ran.
,ol The wife of Sheriff Brown, thr
successive times, put out the fire Kin
OIL led to burn the house. Her husba
he was hidden under the floor. I
IN house was saved by her heroism.
he The offices Of the Journal, Tribu
No. and Republican were Of course lev
fe' ed to the ground, John Speer, j
nat of the Tribune, started for his hol
nd from the Office after the rebels cal
Is in. Mr. Murdock,a printer III the
6oa trial to in1uca him 10 accOmpa