The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-01-13
KANSAS.
The Lawrence RIassacre-0uantrelI's Bloody
Work.

KANSAS.
The Lawrence NTassacre-OuantrelI's Bloody
Work.
During all the dark and bloody scenes of
the war, there is TO be found none fuller of
fendishness and brutality than the Quantrell
raid and destruction of this town, upon that
bright and beautiful August morning. The
malice, vindictiveness and hatred induced by
the Rebellion seems to have tried to spend
itself in that one act 1t was without excuse,
without palliation, and will always be re-
garded as brutal massacre. The town was
defenseless, and the citizens attempted
to make no defense. Under such cir
cumstances, when nothing could be
gained except the qualification of
revenge and little booty plundered, the
-blooded butcbery Of nearly two hundred
defenseless men, and the destruction of a
million dollars worth of property, constitute
a crime at which human nature is shocked,
and at which the Christian civilization of our
age and country may well stand aghast. 1t
sent thrill Of horror through the hearts of
the loyal people of this country, as well it
might Quantrell, with his gang, assembled
on the borders of Kansas and Missouri about
noon on the day previous to the raid. They
burned O few houses and killed some citizens
on the way. About ten miles from Lawrence,
between two and three o'clock in the mornings
they took boy and compelled him to guide
them into Lawrence. After the butchery had
ceased Quantrell dressed the boy in new
suit of clothes, gave him horse, and sent
him home. Arriving at the city, they posted
pickets on the outskirts, planted sentinels
upon Mount Dread, which overlooks the city,
and when all was prepared,
''With loud and furious yells,
AS if fends had raised the battlecTy Of hell"
they rushed upon the town and commenced
fbair o1 NJ
citizens wherever they appeared, and the
work of burning houses commenced. Massa-
chusetts street, the principal business street,
was entirely destroyed, except one business
house. The Eldridge House, the finest brick
hotel west of st. Louis, was burned. But one
public house was saved, the City Hotel This
Qua1trell placed guard around and saved,
because he had boarded there and received
very kind treatment when sick.
The incidents of the massacre would fill
volume. One or two will be mentioned. The
women, as a general thing, were not harmed
or insnlted. In some instances they were
treated with some measure of decency.
One lady. whose husband was absent, they
helped take up her carpets and remove her
furniture, but insisted upon burning the
house. as they said such were their orders.
| Others were treated as might be expected
| from fiends and brutes.
A lady whose husband had been killed
| begged the privilege of retaining his wedding
| ring. mo matter" tie heartless wretch re-
piled, and snatched the souvenir from the
| lady's hand, and rode off.
The murder of Judge Carpenter, who had
been married about a year, was peculiarly
heartrending Several squads had ridden up
| to his house. and, after robbing him and
| plundering his house, he had, by his bland
manners, persuaded them not to kill him.
| AT last came along gang into which seven
more devils had entered, and some of them
commenced firing on him. He was chased
up stairs, ald from there driven down to the
cellar after receiving several wounds From
there he was driven into the front yard when
| he was mortally wounded. His wife threw
herself on him to protect him from further
| wounds. The heartless fends walked around
| him, looking for place for still another and
q fatal wound, and, lifting up her arm, fired
so that the ball should pass through the
Judges head.
One of the brutes asked for cup of water
| from a citizen, and as he received it with his
| left hand, shot him down dead with his right
hand.
General Collamore, Mayor of the city, went
into his well to save his hfe together with
! another citizen. The house was burned down,
| and they were smothered to death. A friend
went down into the well to see if the General
was alive. The rope broke, and he, too, was
hauled up lfeless corpse, making three
! dead bodies from one well.
At DIR, Griswold's there we're four families.
| The house was surrounded and the men were
ordered to come out; and upon being assured
| that with their surrender '!the town might
fare better, they came out. They had gone
| scarcely twenty PAGES before all were shot
| Mr.. Griswold and Mr.. Trask, editor of the
State Journal, were instantly killed. Mr.
Thorp, State Senator, lived few hours. Mr.
Baker, though shot through the neck, the
| arms, and the lungs, finally recovered, and is
now member of the wholesale grocery house
of Ridenour IL Baker, and was at that time in
| the grocery business.
General Lane escaped in a cornfeld.
Many escaped by getting into ravines and
| skirts of timber.
| The whole number known to be killed is
| 143 Fifty-th lie buried in one trench in
| the old cemetery.
Mr. Speer, editor Of the Lawrence Tribune,
| lost two sons at the massacre
WHO AND WHERE Is oUANTRELL?
Quantrell the leader of this gang of ruff
| fans, is no myth, though the accounts pub
lished about him, and the number of men
| who have been arrested and hung for Guam
| trell, might in the future render it quite a
matter of doubt and suspicion whether any
| such parsonage ever existed. Quantrell came
to the Territory of Kansas in an early day
from Ohio, where he taught school For a
time he identified himself with the Free State
| party, but was always mistrusted by them.
He was a bold, bad man "a desperate
and bandit He was a sort of