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

demanded an unconditional surrender. All
was silent for q few moments, when Captain
Banks, Provost Marshal of the State, appeared
at a window and displayed a white handker-
chief as a flag of truce. He offered to surren-
der if they would give him an assurance that
the inmates would not be harmed.
Quantrell, who WAS present, rode up and
was about to reply to Captain Banks, when the
gong of the hotel sounded through it's halls to
awaken its inmates. The raiders, thinking
this was the tocsin of fight and defense on the
partof the inmates, fell back and hesitated
for a moment, but seeing no danger began to
dismount While a portion held the horses
the others rushed to the rooms, plundering
and robbing everyone they met. The inmates,
about sixty in number, they drove out and
marched them over to Winthrop street
old house on the river bank and were held as
hostages, if they should be needed for that
The hotel, which had cost about $4,000, with
all its stocks and stores, was burned to the
ground.
Another squad surrounded the johnson
House and began Immediately firing into the
windows. A portion of the inmates cam out
and surrendered as prisoners. They were
marched d. few rods from the house and shot
down by detail by their guards. Other in
mates Of the house were shot down as they
would run to escape. Some were shot in the
building and others consumed alive with the
burning building.
The house of the mayor of the town, Gener-
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detailed for that special purpose. The mayor
was sleeping securely at the time, not dream
ing that death was knocking at his door. The
noise of the ru6ians as they surrounded his
house awoke him. He got up, saw the trap he
was in, and that there was no possible way of
escape. The raiders were bursting open the
doors of his house. To face them would be to
face their revolvers and death. Flee he could
not; hide he must. At the kitchen door was a
well, and into this he went. The raiders en-
tered hiS honso and saa rrIaI n from, cal1ar tn
garnet, but not finding him they fired the
house and watched for him to run out. AS he
did not come they supposed he had persisted in
the flames. Fate was against him, neverthe-
less. Abortion of tho burning louise fell into
the well, and between the two elements-fire
and water-ho persisted. After the raiders had
left, Mrs. Collamore-who knew her husbands
hiding place-sent q friend. Mr.. Lowe, to look
for him. In going into the well the rope broke
and he persisted, too. Assistance was brought
and three dead bodies were taken out. How
the third man got into the well no one ever
knew.
In another portion of the town, at the resi-
dence Of pr: Griswold, were living four fami-
lies: The Doctor and his lady; S. NJ. Thorp,
State Senator, and lady; Mr.. JIG. Trask, editor
of the State journal, and lady, and Mr.. G.. w.
l,ansf a also. 'Aa they i1 dem nHuis nd that ss the hsaen mes
should come out and were assured if they
would come out their lives should be protected.
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them out into the middle of the street. In an
instant, without q previous knowledge of what
was coming, they were shot down DR.. Girls
void and Mr.. Irask were killed, the other two
wounded, The demons went up to them, rolled
them over and seeing that Thorp and Baker
were still alive they fired another volley INTO
their bodies, killing Ihorp, as they supposed,
Baker, too. But, by a miracle he recovered,
with three bullets in his body. While this was
going on the ladies attempted several times to
| 20 to their husbands but ware lrj ypp off Inv fba
demons. The raiders went in and robbed the
house ofSvertthipg of value, even demanding
the personal jewelry of the ladies. AIRS. Trask
begged to retain her wedding ring. You have
killed my husbands; let me keep his ring."
"No, by the e%ternal!" said tho tiend, and
snatched it from her finger.
Another gang visited the house of Judge
Carpenter. He was called for and met them
at the door so pleasinsly that the raiders were
astonished at his manner. They went in,
robbed the house of some valuahles aud went
OIL, not molesting the judge or even firing the
building. After awhile another gang, seeing
the house unmolested, visited it With this
gang the Judges genial manner and courtesy
had no effect, Upon telling them he was from
New York State one of tho fiends yelled out:
cit is your damned New York fellows that are
playing he'll in Missouri" and with the words
drew his revolver and shot him. The Judge
though severely wounded, ran into the house
and the tiends after him, shooting, shouting
and yelling. They chased him from room to
room and finally he ran out into the back yard,
when a shot MORALLY wounded him and he fell.
His wife ran TO him and threw herself over
him 80 as to shield him from further danger.
One of the devils, lifted the arm of the wife
from her husbands head and sent a ball into
his brain. The house was fired, but was final
ly saved from destruction by the united efforts
of some ladies.
A squad more icndish than all the rest Wis
tied the house of Mr.. Edward Fitch, a very
worthy and talented man from Hopkinton,
Mass, and one who had taken a very active
part in the formation of Kansas as q State.
stairs shot dead. They continued to fire athim
till at least o dozen balls were lodged in his
body. The house was then set on fire and Mrs.
Fitch was not allowed to drag her husbands
body out of the flames. They would not even
allow her to save her family portraits that
hung upon the wall. They drove her off to a
distance, where she sat down with her then
three fatherless little ones and watched with n
sad heart her homo and husband cotJumed in
the flames. What could l,c"e been that moth
er's feeling no one b. q rself can tell.
Beyond t,c outskirts Of the town was the resi-
dence OF tho Rev. S. s. Snyder, a prominent
minister of the United Brethren Church and a
true Christian in every sense of the word He
was a man of much prominence and was chair
man of the first Free State Society, and held at
this time a commission as lieutenantin the Sec
ond Colored Regiment. A Especial committee"
of these desperadoes visited him and shot him
IN his Ded room.
Mr.. Dix lived in a house next door to the
johnson House. He was fired on in mis- own
house. He ran to the Johnson House, was with
the number that surrendered there, and met the
same fate that they did. His brother, who was
shot four times, crawled into an clubhouse and
feigned to be dead and saved his life.
George W. Bell, who was County Clerk, and
lived in the high part of town, saw the raiders
when they rode in and knew who they were.
He seized his musket and ran Town into the
street 70 help defend he town. Finding nc
one else turning out. to help him he threw away
his gun and tried TO make his escape. lie raI
into an empty building and attempted to hide.
A raider came in and was on the point of shoot
ing him, when he recognized in Tim an old &C.
quaintance, who in former days had visited
each other often. The raider promised to spare
Mr.. Bells life and that of a friend of MI. Bells
who was hiding in the same building. They
marched into the street End there met a squad
of raiders, who began yelling: "Shoot them.
Shoot the damned c~usses!" Mr.. Bell asked
permission to visit his family first int bic
them farewell, but was givenin reply four balls
in his body. The traitor, who had been &C.
quainted with Mr.. Bell, went to Bells homs
and told his wife that he had shother edamnet
abolition husband, " and then drove her andheI
six children out of her house and fired it
Two young menJames Perine and james
Eldridge-were sleeping in q store. A SQUAD
came and burst in the door and ordered til,
two mon to open the safe and promised to SAVE
their lives II they would. The moment tn.
safe door few open two balls went whlzzint
into their brains. At a house on the outskirts
of the town . gang rode up and drove the ma