The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1856-01-04
THE DAILY DISPATCH.
Friday Morning, January 4, 1855.


INDIAN ATROCITIES IN oREaoN.-The Oregon
papers received by the last mail bring heart.rend
ing accounts of the Indian atrocities committed in
that territory letter from Capt Hewett, pub
lished In the Pioneer and Democrat gives the fol
lowing account of massacre by Indians on White
River;
After two dsys' hard work, reached the house of
Mr. Cox, which we found robbed; confirming our
suspicious that greater mischief had been done to
the settlements farther up the river. We then
proceeded to 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 sck) was burned in it, Mrs. Jones was found
lying 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
nifty yards from the house, shot through the lungs
the ball entering the left breast. We buried the
bodies and proceeded TO the house of w H. Brown
mile distant. Mrs. Brown and child we found in
the well, her head downwards; the mother was
stabbed to the heart, the knife entering the lef.
breast and also in the back and back part of the
head.
She had apparently started to run with her child
(an infant about ten months old in her arms was
oyertaken and pitched into the well The child
was below her and had no marks of violence on it.
taken it from the bed and attempted to flee 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 stabs in the palm
of the same hand, as though he had attempted to
ward off the fatal weapon. His arms and legs were
badly cut, and should think there were as many
as ten or fifteen stabs in his back mostly little
below the left shoulder. Everything seemed to show
that he he had fought desperately, and l think he
must have killed some of the devils from the fact
that the fence where they went out from the house
had the appearance of having had something drag
ged over it, and the rails below all smeared with
blood.
After burying them as well as circumstances
would permit, we proceeded 10 the house of Mr..
King, or rather where his house was which we
found burned to ashes, and where the most horri-
bic spectacle OF all awaited us. Bir. King and
the two little children burnt III the house, and
the body Of Atr. King, after being roasted, was
eaten almost entirely up by the hogs. Mrs King
was lying about thirty yards from the ruins almost
entirely III q state Of nudity She WAS shot appa-
rently through the heart-the ball entering the
LEI: side; the left breast entirely cut off-she
cut open from the pit of tho stomach to about
The centre OF the abdomen, and the intestines pull
Cd out on either side We performed the last sad
rtes and proceeded back to encampment. aud
the next morning started for Seattle.