The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-03-23

one knows the names OF these victims Of
Tabor's fatal guns. A few days later
Tabor learned of the presence of the
/ wounded man at the neighborlng farm
house, and while unrelentisg in his
hatred toward an armed foe. he was as
/ full of sympathy as a woman for a
fallen one. He assisted in caring for
the patient until he could be moved;
then he conveyed him TO Elizabethtown
and bought him ticket and sent him
home with word of good advice.
A SECOND VICTORY FoR TEE TABoKs.
This slaughter of the first band attempt
ing TO despoil the Tabor settlement re-
suited so disastrously that it was hoped
it would not be repeated. But few
days had elapsed, however, until an at
tack was made upon the honeof another
of the Tabor brothers in the same settle
ment-the father of the young man who
took part so brayely in the defense of his
uncles home. II was after midnight
when the family were awakened by a
volley of musketry, and pieces Of window
glass and slivers from the doors and
walls of the room indicated the object OF
the attacking party. The family escaped
up stairs, and the old man. although he
weighed over 800 pounds, got his double
barreled fowling piece and loaded it, and
from an upper window killed one man
who was crouching by the corner of the
house, almost directly under and not
twenty feet from the muzzle of his gun.
Tabor happened 10 be the only naleoccu-
pant of the house On the night of this
attack, and would undoubtedly have
been massacred with the women of his
family but for the timely arrival of help.
Not mile from this house lived a SON
in-law; and his own son, who had previ-
ously distinguished himself. was spend
ing the night with this brother-in law.
AS soon as the first firing had begun
these two men, and probably one or two
more who were present, lost no time IN
getting to the scene of action, and their
approach and a volley from their guns
put the guerrillas TO flight. They, of
course, concluded that an armed force
had come to the rescue. The next day
the family connection gathered in and.
after burying the victim of Tabor's Old
and cross the line. This was done I'M
mediately, and all the women and chill
dren were left in Indiana. IN the care of
the old gentleman, whose ponderous size
rendered him almost helpless. The male
portion of the settlement returned 10
protect their homes. And while the re-
manning few months TO the close of the
war were months of wonderful adven-
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perate men, l will not lift the curtain
that shTouds it in the forgotten past.
Suffice it To say that their guns were
tried and true, and that they seldom
missed their aim, and that they looked
over their gun barrels into the faces Of
many foes, and that many unmarked
and forgotten graves are indebted 10
that band for their occupants.
They went far and near and their fame
is familiar in all local legends of the war
period in that part of Kentucky.
Such were the surroundings and inhu-
ences under which the present generation
of Kentuckians We're reared Men par
take of the nature of their environments
whether they wish or even know it them
selves. The legitimate fruits of that day
of dark and bloody warfare show out
every now and then in the men who. as
small boys, were witnesses of these guer-
riIla days. The famous Jesse James gang
of outlaws were a sample of the Ken
lucky guerrilla. And the b. h. X. Of a
few years ago were the last outcropping
of anything ike organized guerrilla war
fare. Its traces now remain only In the
tainted and deformed moral tendencies
in a few only Of the survivors and de-
scendants of this class-a legitimate and
natural product of the war on its border.