The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1884-10-03

in the yard as he was standing by his wife. Thu
raiders then fred the house, and while it wa,
burning held the woman 30 she could not rur
IN and save her infant babe that was being con.
sumed in the flames.
An old German who was sick in bed and no
able to walk was ordered to be carried out tina
his home might be fired. As the poor sici
man lay IN the yard q squad of fiends came uI
and riddled his body with bullets. Another
man who was sick, when he heard the noise
outside, crawled to the door, where he was mel
by half dozen desperadoes, who emptied theiI
revoivers i'll his face and thon fired the build
ing, and all was consumed in the flames.
A very old man by the name OF Murphy was
standing in his yard and with his dim eyesighi
WAS pcering in the distance to find outwhat wal
gong on. A tiend rode up and asked him fol
a cup of water. When the old man went anG
brought HIM tho cup the incarnate devil re.
ceiyed it with one hand and shot HIM with thu
other.
To add other instances of these barbarities
would be to unnecessarily lengthen this article.
Enough has been said to mark it as one among
the foul deeds the world has witnessed. The
instances narrated show plainly the object and
well. His spies had visited tho place prior to
his raid and had found and marked every i'm.
portant parsonage and place. To make this
attack instantaneous and complete he had fol-
each place or person " proper detail and thell
executions were complete. In q short space OF
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the men shot down wherever seen, women and
children running here and there screaming fol
life. while the desperadoes were riding up and
down the streets at full speed. indiscriminately
shooting at every object they could see. They
would shoot ut women and children t'to make
them run faster and scream louder" as one OF
the raiders afterwards said. To an eyewitness
it was a realization of what one might cal
stHell letloose."
The business part of the town was on Massa.
chusetts street, between Winthrop and Warren,
a distance of six blocks. Along this street
there was one continuous line of stores, shops
and Offices. These buildings were all first
plundered and then set on fire. The whole
street was soon in flames, In the street and on
the sidewalks lay the dead and wounded crisp
ing in the fiery element. AS buildings went
down many persona went with them, choosing
rather to perish i'll the flames than to run to
the street and be shot down like dogs. Mod
ern times never witnessed such q scene OF
horror before; the atrocity of savages was but
a shadow to this, and tiends from the regions
of the damned could not have been more bru-
tai.
The end came at last, and in m hour the
dead, the caring for the Wounded and the hunt
for the missing was the work of three days
three days and nights of the widest excite
ment ever seen i'll Lawrence. Into the few
buildings left remaining were gathered the
dead the dying and the wounded. Many OF
tho dead were burned beyond recognition,
and some so charred as not to be handled and
some of whose remains never could be found.
The scenes of these three days beggars all
descriptions. In the ashes of a building sat Q
woman holding in her hands the blackene6
skull of her husband, while Mt her feet lie thu
ashes of her three children, all of whom wer,
butchered and consumed in the flames.
The whole number killed and those who dice
afterwards from wounds was about one hun
bred and eighty. The burial of the dead was
the most solemn affair any one could witness.
it was an impossibility to get collins for all and
some had to be put away i'll rude boxes hastily
made. A few were buried in their own door
yards, but most were taken to the cemetry wesi
of the town. Fifty-tlnee were buried in one
long grave. In 1872 their bodies were all taken
up and rcinterred in Oak Hill Cemetry, where
there has been erected to their memory q very
imposing
The number of buildings burned was about
one hundred and fifty and the most of these
were the principal ones in the town. A few
stone buildings were left standing. The value
of the property destroyed was estimated al
about 81, 5W,00O 1t was a very calm morning;
not a breeze was stirring, to carry the flame.
from ono building to another, is a reason why
q portion of the town was left standing where
the houses were not very contiguous to each
other. OswEGo, KANSAS.