The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-08-26

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Some, however, 80 ruov.s r,yISG
continued a career
of murder aud robbery after the war closed,
and met either violent death or landed IN
one or another OF various state PRISONS
Tho respectsbe survivors Of the band arc
unanimous on ono p0int-they were noltncr
robbers nor murdcrers IN the beginning. not,
indeed, till Gen Halleci issued from u ash
ington an order proclaiming Quantrih and
his mon outlaws III March. 1867 They raise
their LANDS toward heaven and swear by all
th1t is sacred that this is truo.
After Halleck's proclamation Quantrill OBJ
aimed copy OF 1t and read it TO his mon.
Now, boys. you hoar." he said. "fhose Of
you who wish can quit and go home. Those
who stay viii know what TO expect"
Some of tho hand did thereupon leave, it is
said. Qaantrii further took a copy Of the
proclamation Gnt wrote upon il these words:
For every man OF mine you XII will Ill
ten OF youis." Then he sent the paper to
Gen. Thomas Ewing, commander OF the mill
tary district OF Kansas
From thgt time IL was a war Of cXtCrminl-
to1. Qunul, however. did occasionally
spare lie, and sometimes restored prop
cry when women bscgoi for IT, Though
rot especially cniva.rous, Lo dil rot Larm
women. iuacld, ~ was far more marc.iui
Tan many OF tle force borDc,v-, nat
gatheicdarouad him. ard this w. SOFA uneS
tie cause o. q.arrc.s.
Gen. Ewing WIS il provided with troops
30 meet t,icrozmins guctrlia COMPANIES he
ii thc best DO coma. scattering squads OF
soldiers among loc.Etic, whore thoy could
keep watch Espcci2 .y taey were ordered
to have an eye o. Cuag;r.i;s band D.
taCHmcn'g wcYD StI'.o1c 1i1rc tro Mia0ori
border. LctUt-a TARA. SOD. i-:..,s, Tor over
Glty mics south OF Kansas City.
Tic provost marshal Of Kansas City, Mo,
was az that tine 4 modest military man, by
ramn Preston e.. Plumb, by title major Io
IS rew the distinguished United States sena-
tor from Kau,a,.
The Eaw river emptics into the Missouri
from Tie ve5t. inst at Kausas City. FIy
r.iics west of Kansas C,;y. on the south side
oil the Kaw. l. the town Of Lawrence. It
now contains about go Inhabitants. Then
there were only a few people in the town
The able bodied men were nearly al away
III tie Union army.
On the II. sat Of Au. g. 1863, Maj Plumb
came M late so lis headquarters. Gen.
Living was al lcVonWofth. twenty-five
miles north o. knsr, City Nj. Plumb
was very weary lie VA alsc 49, Ic SC
tired 81 oae. 10 ~ut.i ocioct ln 500
oal story r,,.n 70, t.' headquarters "a single
ii-ht -, burned tt sh1no through O. win
d. 90 f.ff O. ..l.t ..f
oi'e 81, ~ ta iisHt. reading q ucVspvcr
ocjGe-.y there va, % c!le.er OF horses
Eo,'s ~ t..c street 1ney paused under the
window rE.-e tie solitary lsat burned a
voice below shouta. t-.Htiy:
"lt-ica' Is CO.. tho provost marshals
o.ic,,' sid Gle voice.
SIT Is. Whats u..ntsl"
81 am tie bearer OF o.s0atchc, from Capt
Pike. IL sent me 10 say that Quantliil
crossed into Kansas with go ruen this oven
ing at 9 O'Clock, forty miles below here, md
they were heading northwest II Was
verbal message
Then The solitary hogstinan went away
again. lie bad ridGen sixty miles since
o'clock.
The lrlgAtiui import Of this information
dawned on the newspaper reader 20 the full
Quan,rill in Kansas with 800 men. aud riding
northwest 1t meant massacre, fire and
plumber 10 some defcnseesS town.
In five minutes lights were flashing 70 and
fro in ell the windows of the provost mar
shals Office. Soldiers were arminS, and Ma.
Plumb, III and exhausted as ho was, was up
and preparing to lead them. Horses were
saddled swiftly in the darkness.
Between II and O'Clock Maj Plumb and
City mounted men were riding out into tho
darkness, they ,new not just where Fifty
soldiers were all there were at Headquarters
Il that time liz gathered up other soldiers
on the way, at Westport. Gen Ewing says
he bad as many as SEQ men when be was at
longth fairly on tire way.
They rode all nj yht as fast as their horses
could carry them twenty-five miles from
Kansas City jaey tad word that Quantriil
had passed through Gardner at midnight and
was riding toward Lawrence. They then
had their bearings. Lawrence was the
doomed town They spurrcd on fast and
hard.
In tie morning, soon after daylight they
reached Lawrence, mass OF smoking ruins.
Quantrill lad done his work already. He
had done it so thoroughly that only one or two
houses escaped. Quantrill himself spared ono
house, Stones hotel IL is still TO be seen in
the rebuilt city Its proprietor had done
Quantrill some favor IN former times, and
his house was saved from the universal ruin.
0rantrlll put into this building soulo twenty
persons ard saved their lives.
One hundred ami forty people had been
massac.el in cold blood, and twenty-four
others wounded. Women and little children
hal been spared hundred ard eighty
five houses had been burned, and the raiders
carried or all tho phnIder they co,Iid load
upon their horses aud th@nsDlyes money
ana other v4luablci In front Of one house
the mistress COMO out and stood before tho
gucrg.l,,s. s;lAc was 4 piuoky, determined
woman. She begged with oil tha e,oquUce
si.o was rnseter OF thai her Lous9 BE- spared
l. was III vain The rough ssidoSi t3co be-
% ous Of tle way, for her hocss would b. IL
flames ia Eve minutes
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