Democratic Sentinel, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 September 1879 — Renewal of the Underwood War. [ARTICLE]

Renewal of the Underwood War.

Dispatches fromGraysoD, Ky., state that “the Underwood war is ragiDg more fearfully than even two years ago, when nothing but the State militia could finally check it, after four men had been killed. Until two months ago matters seemed to be quiet enough, but then one of the Underwoods was foully murdered by the opposing party. Strang6 to say, the Underwoods withheld from taking rovenge. Two weeks ago George Lewis Underwood died from his wounds received in tho war two years ago, and it seems that, in order to revenge his death, Squire Holbrook, the leader of the anti-Underwood party, was shot while going to his pasture Friday morning. Holbrook’s sons and clan then turned Jhemselves loose, and the next report was the killing of Will Underwood while peaceably at work in his field Monday morning. Now the news reaches us of the shooting of George Underwood, Sr., the father and chief of the Underwood party, who was killed at his home morning. “Tho woods up in the Upper Tygart portion of Garter county are full of the' men of the two opposing parties, who propose to fight it out among themselves without the interference of the officers of the law, who do not interfere in the least. “ Later reports from the Underwood war confirm the shooting of old George Underwood, who was literally ricTdled with rille balls when ho stepped out of the door of his house, known as Fort Underwood, yesterday morning. Sixteen shots were fired at him simultaneously, six of which penetrated his body, and one, entering his forehead, tore his skuii all to pieces. Three balls pierced his breast and one of them his heart. “This is tho ninth murder enacted on the stage of the Underwood war, and the Lord only knows how many more will have to bite the grass.”