The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1907-08-17
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+ 50. rae> ~it) ~ mites cat # the way
to avoid f.
+ >eafls forty wears sxo :hc bodies
+ of $50 aen were feand at yhts SPOT
! rhey bad been murdered No one
eser Identified then. sat 80 one
ever feQua out Who killed them or
why. lg VAS then the name Dead
Man ) Gulcn NaS first heard 4 few
years later the stage driver WHO car
r}ed mail from Atoka over the trail
to BoSxy Depot. MAS murdered aud
bis body found in exactly The same
spot where the other two had been
found
QUANTRELItS REVENGE.
Quautregl during the war passed
this spot aud lert his mark upon it,
He had found In the Choctaw Nation
five men who were working among
the Choctaws trying 10 get recruits
for the northern army These men
had come among the Indians as ira
ders and were not generally known
TO be representatives, of the northern
army. Thsy iugratiated themselves
in the good viii Of the neighboring
Indians and then melted them 10
Join the union army If possible. |
When QuauJreu got on the trail OF !
these five men he secured the coun- |
try over for them. They were chased |
across the Choctaw Nation, took ref !
uze In the Winding Stair Mountains, /
were driven back westward and
tried to get into the Arbuckle Noun
tains in the Chickasaw Nation. but
We're Intercepted at Limestone Gap
by a squad of Quantrell's men led
by Choctaw Indian. These five men
we're brought up on the trail and
) hanged at the crossing at Sandy
creek. together with one of Guam
trell's own men who had disobeyed
orders in the treatment of Indians.
The bodies swung in the breezes for
many days, until they fell to the
ground of their own weight, and it
was difficult for a long time to get
anyone to travel that way even in
the day time
STAGE ROBBERY.
Immediately after the Civil War,
a stage coach with a lot Of money
designed to pay government troops
then stationed near Boggy Depot,
was held up and robbed and the
government money, as well as all Of
the money and valuables OF the pas
seugers was taken. The bandits
stood under a big elm tree and with
their Wiuchesters leveled at the
stage ordered the driver TO proceed.
Twenty years later three men tray-
cling Co a light spring wagon and
driving a splendid team Of horses
stopped and camped for the night
under the old elm tree IL was the
first time since Quantrell had hang
cd his men that any one was ever
known 20 have stopped over night
there The next morning the party
/ had gone bat there had been strange
proceedings during the night
The men had measured Off "a dis
lance of 100 feet from The tree and
sort circle of stakes around ii ia q
perfect circle 30 SOS evident that
raF had used % tape line for the
Inducements And where they had
.,f their stake. the lad dug into
tg. ground 40 the end OF one 90 che
iu. their search had evidently been
rewarded for Ia tas bot'uu % the
. Dob. Was plainly seen the imprint OF
. a .rse pot with toes on thr bottom
H.ar ,uoush fu hold at least Else
e.Iaa. The pot tad been broken
900 whatever DO contained bad been