The Democratic pioneer. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1845-1853, 1845-11-14

We did not hear or see any thing more
of the old man. II was now midnight; the
orses ofthe Col and Of the young man
could not move any further, and we're be
bind. Wewent due east, about two O.
clock we met Capt. Biggs, who had car.
ried Lieut.. Ashley from the battle field,
when wounded.
As The wounded officer was riding Cap
tain Biggs's horse, ! gave mine to the
Captain. The Colonel and went ahead
on foot. about one hundred yards; the
Captain and the wounded oficer following.
With two Young men insheirrear. One
mile and a half further on, several Indians
jumped up, about fifteen or twenty PAGES
before us. Seeing but three of them a,
first, went behind big black oak, and
tried to get an aim al them with my rife.
but the Colonel called twice not TO fire;
one OF tho Indians then went up to him
and grasped his hand. The Colonel now
desired me TO lay down my rife, which
OhS VI tuCHi tlich CdmG " mei 1
had seen him before; lie called me DOC
tor" and took my hand. Theywere Del
aware Indians, of the Wengenim tribe
Captain Briggs fred al them, but without
effect. The, told us TO call those men in,
or they will XII them, which the Colonel
did, hut they ran off and escaped for the
present. The Colonel and myself were
taken TO the Indian camp, about hall a
mile off. On Sunday evening, five Indl.
ans, who had been stationed further on,
brought in Cap ain Biggs and Lieutenant
Ashley's scalps, and alsn lha, Of an Indi-
an. which Gap ain Biggs had aiken d, rng
the battle. They also brough, in the hor.
ses OF Captain Bggs and myself The
other two men, they said, had made their
escape.
| June 10Th, we marched to Sandusky,
about 33 miles distant. The Indians W ere
seventeen in number, and had eleven pris-
oners and four scalps.
Col. Craw ord, being anxious to see
Que Simon Gir,y, who lived amongst the
Indians, obtained permission to 60 to the
village, conducted by two warriJrs. They
were ordered to pass the place where Col
Crawford had left his horse, in order to
obia ain il If possible. The rest Of us were
taken from the old village TO the new one
On the llih, Col. Traw ford as roughl
back on purpose that he might march il
with tie rest of the prisoners. ] akec
the Colonel if he had seen Girty. Ill
said he had, and that Grty had promised
to do every thing in his power for him.
He told me TOO that his (Crawfori's) SON
IN law and his nephew William Craw ford
had been captured by the sLawnees, but
were set at liberty.
AT the place where we were ordered to
| sit down, number Of sqnaws and boys
attacked the flveprisohes who were stll
alive, and killed them with their toma,
hawks; four others had already been tor.
tured 10 death in the most cruel manner
Amongst the prisoners as one John NJ
KiDly formerly an officer Of The 18th Vir,
gnia regiment, W hose head, after beiEe
chopped off by a squaw, was kicked aboil
by the Indians The young Indians came
several times where the Col mel and
were, and threw the scalps IN our faces
! They now conducted MS to the place where
the Colonel was 10 be burned. Almost
every Indian who met Us hit us with his
fist or with stick. Girty waited till we
we were near. and then asked, "Is tina.
the Doctor!" / answered, "Yes," and
ent up to him, offering my hand; but he
told me to be off, and called me damned
rascal.
After coming to the Fl re the Colonel
was entirely stripped, aud ordered to sit
down by the fire; they then commenced
bea ting him with sticks and with their
fists: Soon after, having treated me in
the same manner, they tied rope to the
bands on his wrists. The Colonel called
Girty, and asked if they were going 10
burn him. "Yes," said Girty. Captain
Peip, Delaware chief, now addressed
The Indians, consisting of about thirty or
forty men, and sixty or seventy squaws
After the speech was finished, they
screamed horribly in approb alton of what
ha been said. The Indians then took
their rifles and fred powder into the body
of the Colonel. ! think not less than sew.
enty charges were fired at bis naked oody'
They closely surrounded him and cut off
his ears, as | should judge, for after the
crowd ad dispersed little, saw the
blood trickling from both sides of his head.
The fire was about six or seven yards
from the post TO which he was tied, and
consisted of hickory pole burnt through
the middle, leaving about six feet on each
end. Three or four Indians one after the
other, took mp one Of these burning poles
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