Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1895-05-24
KANSAS CITY GHOSTS
FAMOUS spooks- OF ms TOWN ON
rHE BIG MDODY.

rratrioide How fae Santa Fe spooh
Was Laid How q Man with the "Jim-
iamsv stirred Up a Jail Fpn Of oriminais-
Il may be true that conscience makes
towards Of as al, but with the ignorant
md superstitious conscience is not a cir
ruinstance when compared to vivid
Imagination The greatest coward on
parth is the person who sees ia every
dark shadow, neach deserted house and
around every dismal building tie rest
less spirit Of some departed sinner whose
crimes win not allow him to enter
heaven. whois doomed to wandcraround
this earth until Gabriel's trumpet is
sounded, who must hover near the scene
Of his former 1nisdeeds until the last
day
The place by popular consent most
adapted to ghost wanderings and the
blace most fruitful in the production Of
Inc bona ldo article is naturally the
graveyard. The drearior, gloomier and
more mouimful the aspect Of the grave
yard the more ghosts. But the real be-
iiever in spoolzs and spirits does not
deem it necessary to go among the tombs
and graves Of the dead to find spirit
Ghosts are numerous. They can be
fonud in an sections Of the country.
There IS not a village nor a deserted
rount1v house nor a railroad bridge but
has its ghost. But the ghosts are nota
confined to the country by any means.
There have been several in Kansas City
TINT have gained extensive not0riety on
account Of their many visitations,
and the parts Of the city in which they
nre won't to disport themselves are still
eyed with suspicion and looked upon
askance by the inhabitants Of Belvidere
Hollow. Hicks Hollow and other por-
tons Of the city thickly settled by the
descendants Of Ham.
The oldest, the original ghost that is
most wildly in the memory Of the SUI
perstitious and is most often the topic
Of erewsone whispers among the people
mentioned, walked the leyee between
Main street and Broadway II years ago
One winters night, the story goes, a
man was lying in wait for an enemy
on the levee. In his hand he clutehed
a ponderous double barreled shotgun
loaded with nails and slugs. He saw a
man walking down the levee In the
dim. Pickering light he thought he rec
ognized his enemy. He raised his gun,
fred and hurried away. The next day
he read in the papers that his brother S
body had been found on the levee, nor
riblv mangled and torn. The murderer
WINGED, but kept his secret. Then the
dead brothers ghost began to walk. Ev-
erv night, at the same hour Of the
shooting. it could be seen ON the levee
Each time it would walk straight to the
spot where the body had fallen Then
the ghost would fall, 60 through a death
struggle and disappear. 1t kept this up
for years, and there are those who say it
60es is still.
The second healthy, well developed
ghost disported itself in the ruins Of the
Old Santa Fe Stage Coach company's Of
fee at Second and Main streets in 1886.
So generally known did it become that
often large crowds would congregate and
await the appearance Of the nocturnal
visitor. Early. one evening a young man
who wished to investigate little went
into the ruins. When he emerged from
them an hour later, he found a large
crowd standing on the opposite side OF
the street, near the Jail, watching for
ghosts. Some one in the crowd, thinking
that the Young man had been playing
ghost. threw a brick at the investigator,
striking him on the head. He fell sense
less with a gaping wound in his head.
The Santa Fe ghost has not been seen
since
In 1887 there was a story atioat that
&C II o'cioek. each night ghostly cable
train ghded down the incline between
Walnut and Main streets and disappear
ed into space In the grip car, guiding
the train. was the ghost Of a gripman
who had died a short time before, after
having been insane for some time, the
result Of grief over the fact that his train
had run down and killed pedestrian.
Crowds congregated at the junction
nightly to see the strange sight. For the
most part they went away disappointed,
although there was plenty who declared
they had seen 'it.
Another story, in which a ghost was
never seen, but which smacled strongly
Of spoolzs. was the Conway murder on
East Eighteenth street, between Oak and
Locust, IN 1850 ms. conway 7" yol.us
woman, and her NIUE girl weIg pe''e1,i
to death with coupling pm me li ~.
derer OF murderers We're never o''ugil',
Suspicion pointed toward Two men, puD
there was no evidence. BON Oh llel.
n IL n H.. II. lsts fnt
afterward dled horrible uea1ls-7''ie u
the CHAMBERS ana the other On c'lli IIa,
The ghost OF the Yletliils never ;, W''lAel
openly but mat seetiOn % .iio 0i.y ~
ers for many months afterward
Last, but not least were the ghosts OF
Clark and Jones, the men hung for muir
dering Nine Wright IN 1898. These