The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1856-03-01
Horrid BarbaTity.

The Oregon papers contain the most
hear,-Iending accounts of bloody bar bar.
tiles perpetrated by the Indians upon the
deIenceIess white settlers in that terrific.
ry. Men, women aud children were
Iu,hlessiy murdered. with every cncum-
stance oil the most aggravated cruelty
even children at the breast were not al
lowed 10 escape. The United States sol.
disrs were in pursuit of The mardsfers,
aud We trus, ere long to hear of their ca D.
tn,e, and that means have been taken to
greveat repetition OF the scenes above
alluded to.
The following extracts from etter
FROM Captain Her,oa, give al accouu, OF
the massacre, by Indians, OIL White riv-
er:
.ffter two DAYS hard word, yeacl ed the
house o. Mr.. Cox " ich We fe und robbed
confirming OFF suspicious that great mis-
chef had been doIe to the sel.leme hts
iurthcr Up the river. We then proceed.
ed 10 Mr.. Jones's place, where we found
eur worst fears more than realized. The
house was burn, 10 ashes and Mr.. Jones
who was Al that time sick } was burn, in
u Mrs. Jones was found lying about
thirty yards from the house, sho, through
the lower part of.he lungs, face and Jaws
horribly nu.lated and broken, apparent.
" with the head Of an axe. The bones
ot Mr.. Jones were found, the roasted
flesh having been eaten off by the hogs.
We found Mr.. Cooper (who was living
with Mr.. Jones q, the ,ime) asout one
hundred and fifty yards from the house
shot through the lungs, the ta'l entering
the left breast, We buried tho bodies
and proceeded to the house Of w. II.
Known, mile distant. Mrs. Brown and
child. we're found Ia the we'll, her head
aswnwards; the mother was stabbed 10
the hear,,,he knife entering the left breast
and ST. e also was stabbed in the hack and
back part of the head.
Size had apparently started to run with
nc. ssld laa ii,sn. abou, Ten months old J
N Der arms; ras orertaken and pitched
INTO the well. The child was below her.
aud no marks Of violence on it. II was
cot dressed, showing tina, the mother had
taken /, from the bed and attempted to
fee. Mr.. Brown was found Ia he houts
cut to pieces. The LEI, hand had two
sass, as though be had grasped knife.
and had 1t pulled out, cutting the hand to
the zone. There we're also two .tabs IN
the palm oil the same hand, as II he had
attempted 10 ward off the fata! weapon
Mas arms and legs were badly cut, aud |
should think there were as many as ten
or .iile,n stabs in bis back, iitie below
tie lei, shoulder. Esegytninp seemed
10 show that he had fough. desperately,
anil thak Es mast nave killed some of
tile devils, from The ,act that where thew
went out FROM the house. the fence had
the appearance Of having had something
araeged over It, and the rails below were
all smsared win blood.
After turying them SIS we'll as eilcurn.
stances would permit, we proceeded TO
tie house Of Mr.. KING, or IatEer, where
ms nous" was. which we found burn, to
ashes. and where the most horrible .pee.
tao!e OF all awaited us. Mr.. King and
two liliie children were burn, "a the
house, and the body Of Mr.. King, alter
being roasted, was eaten almost entirely
up by the hogs. Mrs. King was living
about 4 irty Yards from the ruins, a,mos,
-niir ly IN a STATE OF Ludty. She was
sn,t, apparently, through Tho heart the
bal! entering the left side, the left brcns,
was entirely cut off; she was cut open
from about the PIT oil tie stomach 10 the
centre OF the abdomen, aud the lnteslines
pulled Out Oh either side. We perform.
81 the las. sad rites, aud proceeded bs ok
70 our encsmrMsnt, and the next nom
Hg siarted for Seattle.