The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-01-15
Grnfral Entelliqtnte.
INDIAN ATROCITIES IN OREGON.

The Oregon papers received by the
last mail bring heart-rend1ng accounts OF
the Indian atrocities committed in that ter
ritory. A letter from Capt. Hewett, pub
lished in the Pioneer and Democrat, gives
the following account of a massacre by In
dams on white River:
After two days hard work, reached the
house of Mr.. Cox, which we found robbed
confirming our suspicious that greater mis-
chief had been done to the settlement fur
Mr.. Jones' place, where we found our worst
fears more than realized. The house was
burned to ashes, and Mr.. Jones (who was
at the time sick) was burned in it. Mrs.
Jones was found about thirty yards from
the house, shot through the lower part of the
lungs, face and jaws horribly broken and
mutilated, apparently with the head of an
axe. The bones of Mr.. Jones we found,
the roasted flesh having been eaten off by
the hogs. We found Mr.. Cooper (whO was
living with Mr.. Jones at the time) about one
hundred and fifty yards from the house, shot
through the lungs, the ball entering the left
breast. We buried the bodies and proceed
cd to the house of W. II. Brown, mile dis
tant. Mrs. Brown and child we found Ill
the well, her head downward; the mother
was stabbed TO the heart, the knife entering
the left breast, and also in the back and
back part of her head.
She had apparently started to run with
her child IAN infant about ten months Old)
III her arms was Overtaken and pitched in
to the well. The child was below her and
had no marks of violence on it. 1t was not
dressed, showing that the mother had taken
it from the bed and attempted to fee. Mr-
Brown was found in the house, cut to pieces.
The left hand had two cuts, as though he
had grasped knife, and had it pulled out,
cutting the hand to the bone. There were
also two stahs in the palm of the same hand,
as though he had attempted to ward off the
fatal weapon. His arms and legs were bad
Iy cut, and l should think there were as
many Us fifteen stabs in his back, mostly a
little below the left shoulder. Everything
seemed to show that lie fought desperately,
and / think he must have killed some of the
devils, from the fact that the fence where
they went out of the house had the appear
ancc of having had something dragged over
it; and the rails below all smearcd with
blood.
After burying them as well as circumstan-
ccs would permit, we proceeded to the house
of Mr.. King, or rather where his house was,
which we found burned to ashes. and where
the most horrible spectacle of all awaited
RS. Mr.. King and the two little children
were burnt in the house, and the body of
Mr.. King, after being roasted, was eaten al
most entirely up by the hogs. Mrs. King
was lying about thirty yards from the ruins,
almost entirely in state of nudity. She
was shot apparently through the heart-the
ball entering the left side; the left breast
was entirely cut off-she was cut open from
the pit of the stomach to about the centre
of the abdomen, and the intcStines pulled
out on either side. We performed the last
sad rites and proceeded back to our encamp-
mcnt, and the next morning started for Sea-
file