Linn County KS Archives News.....Marais des Cygnes Massacre Anniversary May 10, 1879
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The La Cygne Weekly Journal May 10, 1879
Linn County
Saturday
May 10, 1879

May 19 wil be the anniversary day upon which the Marais des Cygnes massacre
occured, and the Marais du Cygne Memorial Association will probably hold a
meeting at Trading Post that day. Wilder's Annals of Kansas, under date of May
19, 1858, has the following brief account of the massacre: "Tomlinson says
Hamilton's party consisted of twenty-five persons. He gives the following names:
Charles A. Hamilton, Dr. John Hamilton, Alvin Hamilton, Luke Yealock, William
Yealock, Thomas Jackson, Brockett, Harlin, Beach, and Mattock. They lived near
or in West Point, Missouri. They reached the Trading Post, in Linn county, early
in the afternoon, and arrested John F. Campbell and G.W. Andrews, who were in
the store. William Stillwell was next arrested. They then made other arrests of
Free State men in the vicinity, placed the prisoners in Stillwell's wagon, and
started towards Missouri. Soon after, Rev .Charles Reed was arrested, and
Andrews was released. The prisoner numbered nine. Abou!
 t three miles from the Trading Post they halted. Brockett then came up, with
Snyder, the blacksmith, as a prisoner. The prisoners were ordered to form a line
a few yards from the Ruffians. They order to fire was given, and every Free
State man fell. Five were killed instantly, and all the others, except one,
badly wounded. The one slightly wounded was, soon after, shot through the head
and killed. The others feigned death. The Ruffians robbed the bodies and rode
off. The murdered men were William Stillwell, Patrick Ross, Mr. Colpetzer,
Michael Robinson, John F. Campbell; the wounded were William Hairgrove, Asa
Hairgrove, Charles Reed, Amos Hall, and Charles Snyder. Robert B. Mitchell with
a party of men, among them Montgomery, proceeded to West Point in pursuit of the
murderers, but came back without having done anything."
 

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