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From: Faye Parker <>
Subject: [OUTLAWS] a site you might enjoy
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 07:24:59 -0800 (PST)


Mentions youngers,quantrill, bill anderson

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Subject: RE: Civil War accident
Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 16:49:00 -0500

http://members.tripod.com/~Penningtons/scv1.htm

This may not be it as it was the entire building that went down, but the women were prisoners of the Union forces. The first building the women were held in was the Union Hotel. The rest of the story is at the website, along with the names of all victims.

There is also a possible location in Winchester, Virginia where a staircase collapsed in a hotel during the war. I am looking.
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In Memory Of Sisters
Susan Crawford Vandever,
Armenia Crawford Selvey
and the others who perished
in the collapse of the Union Jail in Kansas City

Although the Civil War was raging throughout the land, August 13, 1863 began in Kansas City as it was typically expected, hot and humid with the essence for survival making the necessity to provide for oneself the usual priority. But by days end an event was to unfold that was to become one of the most fascinating and mysterious events of the Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas border. On that August day, a building being used as a temporary prison to house female prisoners who were relatives of Confederate guerrillas and imprisoned on suspicion of aiding and abetting the Confederate cause, had collapsed into a heap of brick, mortar and bodies. Of those killed, one was my great grandmother, Susan Crawford Vandever. Thought to be a deliberate act of murder, it sealed the fate of many Union soldiers and sympathizers. Coming at a most opportune time in his career, it was most certainly the spark that beckoned the revenge which set forth Quantrell's rampage through the streets of L!
awrence,
Kansas just eight days later.

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Life is short, eternity is forever. Do it right in the here and now so you won't have to worry about it for eternity - [source thoroughly researched]

Sue Watkins
Winchester, Virginia




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From: Faye Parker
Sent: Wed, 3 Dec 2003 12:26:02 -0800
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Subject: Civil War accident

Am trying to locate the name of a hotel where a staircase collapsed killing 20-30 prisoners of war. I think the year was 1862 and most of the people killed were Confederate POWS


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