But The Moans Of The Dying
Man Frightened The Dog Awfully, And He Crawled Under The Bed, Where He
Stayed During The Rest Of The Horrible Night.
The cause of all the
trouble seems to have been that a colored man undertook to carry in
his
Wagon three or four men from Dodge City to Fort Dodge, a distance
of five miles, but when he got out on the road a short distance he
came to the conclusion, from their talk, that they were going to the
post for evil purposes, and telling them that he would take them no
farther, he turned his team around to come back home. On the way back
the men must have threatened him, for when he got in town he drove to
the house of some colored people who live on a corner across from the
hotel and implored them to let him in, but they were afraid and
refused to open the door, for by that time the men were shooting at
him.
The poor man ran across the street, leaving a trail of blood that
streamed from his wounds, and was brutally killed under our window.
Early the next morning, when we crossed the street to go to the cars,
the darky's mule was lying on the ground, dead, near the corner of the
hotel, and stuck on one long ear was the murdered man's hat. Soon
after we reached Granada a telegram was received giving an account of
the affair, and saying also that in less than one half hour after the
train had passed through, Dodge City was surrounded by troops of
United States cavalry from Fort Dodge, that the entire town was
searched for the murderers, but that not even a trace of one had been
discovered.
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