New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-07-25
Horrible Effects OF Guerrilla Warfare
The Avengers ON Their Trnsk-St"'
ni.on PunishiBg Rebels 49, The "nr
Spirit Arou.ed-Cnil for Ehfermin"'
FROG. Our spocia. Correspondent
Tim. etc. etc.

Frou Our sp-cla. Correspondent =.
ST. LOUIS. JulJ 81. 1894.
Another chapter upon the horrors OF gue'
ra warfare Rebel atrocities. and tie terrible como
ton OF certain portions Of the interior viii complete TIE
record Of events In this STATE for the past week rs
imuo,sible 10 describe the intense excitement IN tle
counties caused ly bushshsckes. or 10
imagine the sufFcrag imposed upon the thousands u
citizsns and their families. WHO having lost their CIT
tie and dwellings by Rebels or In them through fer
Of their liyes have Hed 10 81, Joseph. Leavenwor l.
Kansas City and Atchison. The indNidul eipt 10
onoes Of these refugees would I'll good sized vou .
with accounts Of Rebel ouragos and atrocities but @
details woule b. nearly the S,ine.
Tie Counties of Clay and Platte going throi n
the ordeal of fire and sword with stern reality n
dreamed Of By the Rebel sympaihzers and although ie
innocent sometimes safer with tie guilty. tho purg y
process is the only alternative After the captw OIL
Plaue City and the killing o. several unconcith al
Union men by the Rebels under Thornton IN eip u
ton was organized 10 run down the Rebels By NO
columns under Jeanison and Col. Ford-one from
Weston and the other from Liberty. Informed Of these
movements Thornton at once len Platte City and
turned toward Camden point At the Inter place Col
Ford found him and IN running fight OF ball az
hour killed many Of the Rebels beside recovering mos
Of the plundcr stolen from the Union men.
The Rebel gang scattered in small squads
and leaving their horses In many case
Owed into the brush and escaped. Ford lex
two companies Of Colorado csvaly To keep up the pm
suit and then turned bis attention ~ the home Reoe
Every sympathizcr with treason In ard around Pat
City felt the heavy hand Of the Colorado boys. Ma
houses were burned horses confscated. and Paw r.
niliiismen killed In Platte City several buildings
were fred and the most terrible punishment inflicted
upon the place for the friendship its people had mln'
tested for the Robe during their stay in the place.
The newspaper Office wns burned and Methodist
church unintentonally destroyed BY sparks ro"
another building purposely destroyed.
Jenpisop meanwhile was not idle lie msrcbed
into the heart Of Platte County with lists n no'r"s
Robcl sympathizcrs His advent md name prsance9
the greatest excitement As far down 10 L@xils"n
we find thu Copperheaa Consros'man, er'dovornof
King t.legr.phins to Gen. Ro-ecrans; For Gods
sake otdsr Jennlson tn quit the STATE" And ihe
trembling traitors ran like scared sheep for many miles
ahead OF the Kansas boys The negroes we're instantly
demoralzed- They brought oat psovkons ior Jeh'
p,sop and raye him information Of gusrrs squads OF
concealed arms nd ammunition Rebel uniforms, Rebel
mAls and then fell Into bis tr~ih with hsar mSs'e"
horse. snd wsgons with Joy that they did nos sfssmp'
to conceal
Tho In St Louis to-day shedding tears
for the victims Jonnson. but never tear TOR the VIC
tins Of the guerrilas Jennsons command found many
Of the traitor Paw paw Militia who had joiHed Thornton
at Platte City, and gave them an eternal furough ine
Rebels we're reported 10 wish for Jennisons coming a.
It would cause THAR friends to oin their ranks "u'