Show A kentucky feud I j t THE WAK BETWEEN THE woods WOODS AND IN carter caryer TEB yeb COUNTY THE END OF AN ili extraordinary nany NARY SIEGE A correspondent at mt sterling k ky gives a detailed bistor history of the under wood hol bol holbrook brook teu feu in carter county tho the quarrel begab e a just after the war in be september to ei 1865 5 jesse underwood a a eon n of alil I 1 george underwood got into a abar bati juopo quarrel w with th ft A in man an who wh 0 called IA for a jenn jeff davis davia drink and in the fight that e ensued deorlo trumbo was shot and aired bk jesse many efforts were made by the authorities to capture in one of the raids on the under wood fort squire holbrook bok shot and ser sei seriously fousy lousy wounded the young man thus thua qt arting starting the aued between the two farn Illee at length jesse to avoid avold so much fighting went to iowa and alid then there was waa peace far for a time hostilities were renewed however when old geo underwood became ball for some men charged with horse stealing the war was soon in full progress again and many were killed on oil both sides lewis underwood was wao wa shot through the stomach and lingered two years with a wound through which the process of digestion could be seen feen jesse came back from howato iowa to see eee his bis brother before he dieda died and the affair culminated in a siege of the tho cabin in which the whole underwood family had gathered the siege lasted 19 days and finally when a surrender was agreed to n nothing 0 thing was done clone by the authorities and through the agency of jcsse jease peace prevailed again be eddei being specially a good shot jesse jesso had fallen in love with a neighbor daughter and it would haver have buen been d a breach of etiquette to shoot him during hi hl courtship unship co from prom this point the correspondent goes on as follows old george promised jease jesse that he woula would sell beil out and move to lowa iowa and jesse again bt arted tor for the west taking takings a with him traveling overland to a point on the ohio where he in intended to lake take a steamboat he was as followed by the sheriff of ot lewis county the old re rewards ards for the killing of trumbo twelve years before were thought to be still stall outstanding they ambushed in che the ih e path ot at the bridal couple late one night and as they passed opened fire on them badly wounding jesse at the first shot but he fought desperately killed one of the posse outright and aud wounded two others before ne he fell bleeding from half a dozen shots he was taken to bath county jaff jail a new indictment for the murder d of trumbo was framed and he was in fil jail awaiting trial when in thep them spying spring of 1878 he escaped and made his way back to carter his wife was dead meanwhile but hla hia bio ther lewis was still lingering liggeri ng from the wound of a year before jesse jeese only left the fort thereafter to attend church meeting but with the of two revolvers and his shotgun the hatchet was burled buried for nearly neatly a year it was on the of may last laal that it was dug up and the complete wiping out of the was waa tiie tile th 0 result on that day JS EI verton iverton underwood Under wood woud was shot while by iby his children two bullets passed through hla hia body they wt re fired fram tram ambusch jesse claimed hat that he traced the to squire holbrooks and that tho the tracks of one of them were those of the old ri quire himself but his brother lewis was dying and jesse did nothing until september death released the ohe boyr boyf rona rora two years of great suffering then the bloody work waa renewed the bay bey died september 18 lat squire holb Holh Holbrook rook and his hia son adil millard millaid were ahot at as they were catching a horse in the pasture adjoining their house A rifle ball passed through the old squires brain and he be fell dead the son escaped september 8 william underwood was wat shot through the heart while at work september 12 david Wilso not of the holbrooks was shot at from nu ibushi and his hia eft left arm shattered se september p 15 as old geci geoage go underwood was stepping out of the door of the fort sixteen shots were fired from behind the trees 0 opposite he re was badly wounded 1 in the arm nud aud shoulder and the women dragged him in and sent for jesse jesso jesse jessa was waa out in the forest and at once hastened hat bat ened home just as ashe he was entering the door one of three shots from the bush covered hillside struck him in the shoulder a nd passing through bib bis left lung came out on the other side of his body ho re fell across the doorsill but the ready hands of the women dragged him hira in before another shot could finish him then began a drama unparalleled edep in n the history of these dlo DIO outrages The Holbrook faction ros efrom their bushana am ruael rushed yelling to the door inside there were huddled a dozen women and children and on two corn husk pallets ballets the father and son were lying motta mott liy tilly wounded there was waa little ta eat or drink in thur ther house around it the holbrooks a cordon of sentries and for 17 days the door was never opened I 1 j except that a shot warned the tho women to close id it speedily on sunday four days after jesse was abote shot the walls walla of the women inside gave notice that the man roan was dead butas but a they had before refused to allow any doctor to go to the relief ot of the wounded men BO so now the besieging party gave notice that any man or woman either in the house or outside who attempted to bury the dead man would need to arrange for hisor her own fr Al funeral in this stress old george underwood did manage to get got a message to the county judge at graj Gray grabson Gra json 19 miles milea di distant stants asking him for protection that official ordered the sheriff to take a posse bury the dead and bring to grayson ho the women children and one wounded survivor but so great was the terrorism that the sheriff could induce not a single man in the county to accompany him then the governor was telegraphed for a company of but without s success on sunday october 12 the four women a daughter two nieces and the sister in law of the old man were keeping watch beside bebide the pallet at a knock at the door the women peered out through a loophole and saw a group of some 20 men with blackened faces in inthe the yard they deman demanded demandel deI del admittance averring that caleb white anu and john martin had been seen to tu enter the house they promised safety to the old man and the women if they were allowed to enter the old eld man consented and they arched searched ge the house bousa without finding the men but they seized old geo I 1 arsenal it consisted of six guns tive five pistols torea boeje knives and a sword they laugle laughed ed as they uncovered jessels jesses corpses and then asked the old man to show his hla wounds I 1 old george stooped over to take off the bandage let met d bring brIn itile itlie the meeting to a close closer eaid said the leader as he be raised his gun and empt jeda ieda load of buckshot into the old mans body another at the same moment shot him through the head bead and he fell forward on his face dead through the wound in a mans flat might be thrust thrush then the band went away the father ot at the had in some time past befriended frank mcfarran of olive hill the morning after the murder agnes mcfarran went about among the neigh neighbors borai boral begging for assistance to bury the dead at fort un no que one would venturo venture yeti fure furo thien the gilland her father stai stal started stalled td for the hou house e al nione alone one they thoy expected nothing eh ort of dearil I 1 but happily found that the arty prcy a V y havlu having finished their work b bad d disappeared its a p pearld td the acene the baljo la cannot b br il but hut with the help ol 01 he be tuda rhonl women the two bodies were given givin e decent burial the cries of t he the mourners mourn 0 r 8 echoing through t h rough the stillness of the forest |