Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-12
by NALL
Ire boiling York Horror.

From the Vieksburg Herald, sth.l
The steamer r. B. Hurt arrived yes
terday, and her officers bring further
particulars Of the Rolling Fork fire and
loss of life.
The store of Messrs Ring & Moore, as
before stated, was destroyed by fire dur
/ ing Tuesday night Wednesday morn
| ing the charred remains of Mr.. Jesse
Moore, and Mrs. Moore, Mr.. Goodhue,
and the child, Billy James, were taken
from the debris. The skull of
Mr.. Moore had been broken in
across the forehead, evidently with
an ak, and the head Of Mr..
Goodhue had been almost sew
cred from the body, apparently also
with an AK. The bodies Of Mrs. Moore
and the child showed no evidences of
any wounds. Mr.. Joe Ring is missing,
and it is feared that he, too, has been
| foully dealt with. It was supposed at
Rolling Fork that Mr.. Ring had gone to
| Vicksburg on q steamer a day or two
| previous to the occurrence, but nothing
has been heard of him by his friends
here. Billy james, the child, was seven
or eight years old, and the son Of a we'll
known raftsman, who had left Billy
with Mr.. Moore while he was en-
gagged in other sections of the country.
Rolling Fork Landing is on the
Suntlower river at the mouth of a short
stream which connects the SunfiOWer
with Deer Greek, and the store of Ring
& Moore, the only house at the landing,
was used as storing depot for all goods
put off there. 1t is supposed that there
were a good manXs infamable goods
| there at the time Of the fire. An ex-
/ MI Of
miles around. The numbering of four
or five persons, and the burning of the
| house to conceal the crime, is enough of
| course to arouse all the section of coun-
| try adjacent, and intense excitement
prevails. No clue had at last accounts
| been obtained of the perpetrators Of the
horrible crime. Two suspicious char
acters had been seen previous to the oc-
currence, in the neighborhood, and
| they have disappeared. Robbery was
| doubtless the principal object in view
| by the fiends. Being discovered at this,
| they probably murdered the inmates of
! the house and then fired it, hoping to
hide all traces of their bloody work. The
| body of Mr.. GOOdhue was brought to the
city on the Hurt, and was buried from
| st. Paul's church yesterday afternoon.
| The building and stock of Ring & Moore
were insured in different agencies in
this city for about seven thousand dol
lars.
Murder Of Rev. D. N. COchrane.
From the Arkadelphia Standard
A friend Of Rev. Samuel Stevenson,
of Little Rock, writing from Ben Lom-
ond, under date of the twenty-second
ultimo, gives the following particulars
of this murder: 'iMr. Cochrane left
Loeksburg, in Sewer county, about
three weeks ago to go to the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railroad after sup
plies, and to look out for a new home,
as he had sold his place in Arkansas.
| He had got as far as Wheelock, in the
| Choctaw Nation, on his way back,
when his team became nearly exhausted.
and he tarried over a day or two at the
| residence of an old friend to recuperate
his animals. After dinner Thursday
| he left his friends house in the
direction of home, Two hours after he
was found lying on the roadside, his
skull fractured by blows from an ak, his
team standing close by. Two half-In-
| dian, half-negr0 boys were at a place
where he bought corn a short distance
| from where his body was found. Both
of them had axes, and he was evidently
killed by blows from an ak. One blow
crushed his skull on the right of the
back of his head, the other below the
left ear. He died about eleven O'Clock
Friday morning. He was never able to
speak after his body was found. One
of his murderers, a letter says, was ap-
pretended and shot.