, 1859-06-09
FROM FIXES PEAK.
TERRIBLE: ST FFI.ElNG OF E4lGRA1TS.
Horrors OF The Smoky Hill Route

From tic !:1cAy N'a.ta!a New. May 11th.]
Every dug VIC meet Inch arriving from t1lc
States By tic aburc ruatc-.lio.t u them in nll
almost famsliu. condition. A few days ago Il
,uan arrived Ut Russcliyille, aud reported thai
his cnAlrauians--ninc in Mulnhcr-had given
ul' and laid down upon tho pruiric solne miles
distant. i relief party WAS sent u,,, VIM fund
ufthc number dead froa, actual &tnrra.on,
a',d Two others 80 fur gone that 1llcy died soon
alter rcacIlin. the settlement.
! few days later pnrty OF thirteen reached
Irrc wlo had followed The Smoky Hill as far Il.
practicable and then struck across tile divide
:" ,he Platte, ty whirh rontc they reaehed here
4'ca:lt starved, li;4vin:, been obliged 10 kill
'lrir pack horse and sutsist for days upon his
t!c>ll.
Three days ago nine men reached Fort st.
Eraia. whilst We were there, mere tottcring
tasted bread for more tlan ten days, part Of
which lime they lad lived upon the hesl! Of d
t!vah nx, which tI.vy fpunl uron the prairie but
partially tlcrourcd by the wolves, und for four
days they lad nothing but roots. They stated
that tlrv travelled i..o,e than une hundred miles
!tanut iinalng wafer, and must havc perlshed
III thirst bul Tor some SNOW squalls that oc-
Cured.
All these ilIcn tell the same story; that they
wtre induced 10 lake the Smoky Hill route by
thu representations cf eertoin PARTIES IN eastern
Kansas, WIG employ rllnncrsu IN the stcnnboafs
III ll3ltH4 Gltt!HT*ItS Df 3uC!k
:.nA by dietrlt:':'.n:- circulars md cards pnr-
i'"rtiH5 IL b. guide. over this route, represent
in:. i: ;4s ,oud, plain road, with good camps,
;.nu two husirtu anil fifty Milrs shorter than
any othrr ruu,c. They arr thus INDUCED ~
start out with >ilort supply of provisions, and
lruin, wl.un too iatr. that al the above state
,lcuts ure fl}sr-that there is no rnAd at I'LL
and bnt little wooa nr water; that instead o'
btist:, t;:; miles il is full >', and '"' Of it with
uti III: trail or .rark nf any kind. Great desti'
luton prevails I'LL :uns the LITTER part of tht
r,.itc. EmiSran1s arc wandering OVER the plalns
in I'LL directions, discouraged and tcwldcred
S"n4c .re striking, fur the -trka;>as, sumo tol
the I'l4:tc, and oilers still seurci.iug for wlla
.u.s nut cxst--thc Snluky Hill road. Net
le:tyr their ti1ins to search inT r1ad, anu ar<
,,crrr ...cn lnrrc; others lie down and die uIlt
Lcc"nlv iuod 1ur wolvts.
Onr n,aa tells us !.r ksuws Vi seventeen mc'
who larr TINS 1.csias.rd or disappeared; anoth
CT SAWS the remain, Of one hundred may be seel
:llt'n:, Lac track they lave followed.
We ho}... tue rrrnrts are greatly exaggerated
and l.s 1imc vii! show tat the missing arc no
last, but VIZ greatly fear tc worst, and give Il,
rrj,nrts precisely US they were given to us. Til
,s.c!s i, cc.@in-tllt prolrlaslinS eyes. the sani
en- CHEEKS, tie trembling kurrs aud crncke
vnicrs If nauy If Hose VIC have seen do not lii
Since u rim. thr ubure .sc tlayc sern two 1un
1.l..n wo layc just arrived via thc Smoky Iii
r"ntc. They al,pc IL hare suffered scrcrcl
t,sHn h,sager aud thiTnt. They report hAs'u
PASSED >',inc tcu ur fifteen dead bodies unbnrir'
.n,.c pf them w:aS that al Il nl.lu named Calpc,
ter, and many ncw ,aade graves, also manv Gu
Il. turned loo.r upon tl1c ulains, wagons dcser
I'd, aud some burne.1. Tlrse lncn sav t'lt
liked fur niue days upon rrick1y pears und OF
lawk.
On the cEcnins Of the atll iust.., the "Pionc
Tyan,' Capt, A- Hess, arrived. The par
numbers tilir.y-tw", and left Leavcnworth
tn. III Of March, being saty-trce days on Il
rna,l Ne have 1he following report from,
4. Fox, Of Huron Co., nhio, and y. 0. Ann
vl ,nr.in Co., Ohio: !" NC lad Il good road
Saline. IT, pliirs ..',n Lca.cnw0E:h, after viii
W. l.:d no road III asl. liavin. to make tho fiji
,r;;.'l !. great part II: 1l,c way. We tr1lrel
twelve .iay> w,.hout SEEING wuod, and l:4 nil
wi.n,t water. except FROM melting snow, viii
fortunately for IN fell twice during the tin'e.
We tlsu had sixty miles OF continuous i
very difficult sand hills, whilst passing OF
w.i., We picked three ,..cn who had given. {
aud laid down to t!!c If hunger aud thirst, III
in. ca:cn nutl,ius 10. funr days: "c fed tl'
and i,,1,,1,-ln thein in with Us -