{"id":84643,"date":"2020-08-18T02:59:13","date_gmt":"2020-08-18T07:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=84643"},"modified":"2020-07-25T09:18:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T14:18:18","slug":"burning-of-henderson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/burning-of-henderson\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning Of Henderson"},"content":{"rendered":"

[Marshall] Texas Republican<\/em>, August 18, 1860<\/p>\n

We copy the following from the Henderson Times<\/em> of Saturday last. Who that reads this article will not feel his heart melted with sympathy over this great misfortune? It forms another of the terrible outrages, which have driven our people to the verge of madness.<\/p>\n

The Fire.\u2014The painful duty devolves upon us of recording one of the most terrible and distressing calamities that ever befell any community in the time of peace.<\/p>\n

Henderson is in ashes. Our once beautiful, quiet, and peaceful town is now a scene of the most awful desolation. The whole square is destroyed with the exception of three dry-goods stores, one provision store, one drinking saloon, and the Court-house. Our neighbor of the ‘New Era’ has lost everything in connection with his office.<\/p>\n

Men, that a few days ago were in the enjoyment of peace and plenty, are now cast upon the world penniless, and without employment. We might name at least twenty men, we think, who have lost their all. And men too, who were shining examples of industry and moral worth, and who had labored energetically all their lives to accumulate what they have seen destroyed in one short hour.<\/p>\n

As we before published, on Sabbath night about eight o’clock, when the most of the people were assembled in the Methodist and Cumberland Presbyterian Churches, for public worship, the alarm of fire was given, and such consternation, such excitement, as then prevailed. The women and children running and screaming in every direction, the men, a part of them endeavoring to save some property, and the rest in arms to protect the lives of the citizens, as that was the time which report said, the negroes incited by abolitionists, were to raise an insurrection. And from our exchanges, we learn that there is a deep laid plan among the abolitionists and negroes, to burn towns, and poison and murder the people of North Eastern Texas.<\/p>\n

These are truly alarming times, the people are in arms both night and day, to protect the town and their families, and the greatest excitement prevails thro’out the whole country. Discoveries, constantly being made through the county; several white and black men are implicated, and poison has been found in the possession of some of the negroes. Such are the fruits of Black Republican teachings.<\/p>\n

A Vigilance Committee has been in session ever since the burning, and doing all they can to discover the perpetrators of this hellish crime. We understand that the guilty party have been found without a doubt, and will be brought to justice.<\/p>\n

The same paper contains the following:<\/p>\n

Consequence of the Fire.\u2014The undersigned Committee appointed by the citizens of Rusk county, to ascertain the fact attending the burning of the town of Henderson, on Sunday night the 5th inst., and the amount of losses sustained by the burning, make the following report, to-wit:<\/p>\n

That the fire was caused beyond a doubt, by an incendiary, and that the losses sustained are as follows:<\/p>\n

Loss.<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. F. McDonough $25,000
    \nK. Meyer 9,000
    \nTurner & Harper 30,000
    \nFelton, Wiggins & Hogg 3,000
    \nMartin Casey 5,000
    \nJohn E. Jones 15,000
    \nA. M. Murphy 3,000
    \nL. & A. Mayer 11,000
    \nInsured for 4,000
    \nRosambug & New 600
    \nJ. W. Shelton 10,000
    \nDr. J. A. Jordan 1,000
    \nCharles Fox 10,000
    \nG. M. Nichols 3,000
    \nH. D. E. Redwine 5,000
    \nThos. M. Yates 6,000
    \nInsured for 4,500
    \nW. B. Ector 5,000
    \nDuncan Preston 3,000
    \nBromley & Yates 2,600
    \nJ. L. Miller 1,300
    \nWebster Flanagan 15,000
    \nEstill & Likens 5,000
    \nWm. Stedman 10,000
    \nS. L. Earl 500
    \nLewis Hammock 100
    \nJohn Dyke 2,500
    \nLatham & Wester 3,000
    \nThos. M. Likens 12,000
    \nS. G. Swan 2,500
    \nJas. McBride 1,000
    \nW. A. McClanahan 300
    \nWiley Harris 6,000
    \nM. O. Ector 1,000
    \nCobb & March 300
    \nDansby & Dodson 250 [?]
    \nJ. W. Harris 1,000
    \nM. D. Graham 5,000
    \nC. J. McDonough 15,000
    \nD. Le. Rosen 400
    \nR. B. Tutt 2,000
    \nEstate of J. T. Likens 2,000
    \nR. H. Cumby 2,500
    \nJ. B. Likens 2,000
    \nBen. Smither 500
    \n_______<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    $220,000<\/p>\n

    Insured 8,500<\/p>\n

    _______<\/p>\n

    Clear Loss $211,500<\/p>\n

    A Vigilance Committee has been organized and been at work since the morning after the fire. The result of their investigation, we suppose will be known in due time by the report of the Committee.<\/p>\n

      \n
    1. D. Ector, G. H. Gould,
      \nWm. Stedman, W. H. Estill,
      \nJ. R. Armstrong, W. C. Kelly,
      \nA. B. Graham J. McClarty,
      \nJ. M. Dodson J. E. Cobb.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      [Marshall] Texas Republican, August 18, 1860 We copy the following from the Henderson Times of Saturday last. Who that reads this article will not feel his heart melted with sympathy over this great misfortune? It forms another of the terrible outrages, which have driven our people to the verge of madness. The Fire.\u2014The painful duty […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":84562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84643","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news-of-the-day"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/Texas-Republican.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}