The Meeker herald. [volume] (Meeker, Colo.) 1885-current, 1891-11-28
WHOLESALE BuTCIlERY.
A Story OF tho Bloody Doods OF
Two Brothers.
They Viewed Vengeance rp.n Confederate
D~s~stsss sai s~.s.. Il Deaths
Told Ut rh~ir tS-Ai.
~ Wask.

Near New Holland. Ga. there n n
ii,,lr swamp near the mad. 4, It, edge
stands ihrI'c white oaLtrrc. Year as-o
this sr-o. was often pointed uli a. tho
scene II the murder Of ,wriyy ncu, and
the place i-pFr the rrru'a;lun ~ i-rlns.
haunted. 4, was said the rafting IT
chains AMI .roans and prayers for
ss.~.,r .-..st.t 49, -ai-ss...-siss t,.....,i ~.
ta.s-raisy. No enc ever a.1rttri ~ In
,-s;i'-a'-. % W. can testify fnun Iscr.
s1nai -sT~rirnsr. says g writer IN the
New York Dispatch. having ''rari the
Fs'ans snrEr fourteen YEAR arn, aud
kayln:- aia, ,ilgc sSfac 20 H. - - Gis.
,in'-nishci ;rzyciiai; Ia ~ urr cyuailsi
caH,rr.
iiu, TO ,'ic story; Howard T'HHPsau
was n wi;ar g. ,hr ki'Erf, y',-.'l oe'
curTri n ts1f. - briHIfiT - yr.ga old
a; the tinr. TA- kiil.af wac d1Hg hF
bob Rui iisn ipr,iIn. - i'ia'lEsa epau;y.
aud the MURDERED mru WOW ic-rricrs
who hal lsryu arrested in t'ilgHrrc1guiy.
while the Jordan is1ys wcrg Ia ;lsr
coulrtlcFa,c army u crowd u tirsUFt-ss
visited t'tr house IT their father. ne.
saul,ri their sister ani the wife II hob
jordan and carried their father. who
was ahut, seventy year, oil. ,hrnuTi
the mountain . dis;aHc' ~ sis'y miles
and subj sct-i HIN tn many shp,sirg.
crucl,irsL Then tho jordan boy. ~.
turned hn'nr aud br'aa e.. ir rrs7s ~ Il
killing. Eyrgy man known 'l-r a ,lc-
s-Ftcr or q siSgi.srr bs,1fl victim II
their uurrsius 81 -. hob 's-.I; n It,; e
the nance sal dates 90 f'aT'l book.
lir was pur sur tIy Hf .E icing
u river Loot hi, book. u sGIi lilri "nr
hundred ani tycsiy iss Jrs After
,ha, hr kept NJ record tir was 10.
fore the lsilliur near Gain .i~.
bob and i!sn jordan b,s-us rscFli,.
ing officer aui nru. I'll twenty
sis men IL Gilman county. ani
started with them tn tfr font. pn
the way two escaped AMI twenty four
vcrr in,irri iu Gainesville j1ii. Scs,
n1ruinf. the i'7ians pi''5si au; twelve
whom they hal the b'e. -'l.pn . b..
iicvc hal lscn implicated iu - va;-
rarcs upon their family AL chained
them together and marched thrm 60
this white nals tire on -. Sew Holland
rad. They stood them az IN row
and hob jordan marched slowly along
the line with large army pistol and
shp, them with his own hand ono "a, .
time. Some fell on their knees and
and prayed. while others looked their
slayer slunr' Ia the face anil died with
an oath GA their lips. Amru.r ibc mum.
bcr was fragile boy about af;rCn who
was chained To- very large man.
The hoy was sho, fist and the man
supported him in s'andia posture un.
I'll he himself was shot, when they fell
TO the ground together.
Those twelve men were hastily buried
in trench, dug upon the spot. bu,
after tho war they wcrc cshumcd
by the federal authorities anil removed
10 the national cemetery at ,hatta.
nooga.
After the war Rob Jordan was sho,
to death in Florida by weak. siclsly
young man upon whom he was impos-
ing. Bon was stabbed TO death In q
barroom in Texas.
The spo. where the killing occurred
is now in cultivation. hut ;hc old trrc
still remains. Tho land ia part 81 the
tract which Tom Daniel bnugi, about
two years ago for eighteen hundred
dollars and sold few days ago for six
thousand dollars.