The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1860-04-04
From the San Francisco Bulletin. March 5.
Horrible Massacre of 200 Indians iu
- HumblII County

Between three and four O'Clock on Sunday
morning, (26th February. an attack was made
by "a party Of white men, upon the Indians at
several villages around liumbolt bay. On Az
dian island, opposite the town of Eureka, more
than forty indians were killed, three fUu.thS vi
the number beng woneu aud children. GA
the beach, south OF the en.rance to the bay
forty or fifty indians were also killed. Itepori
says all tn It were there soeryo ne-wa kIiiet.
1t is also r.Iorted, aud is no doubt true, that
a siuiulta, cous attack was MADE upon the vii
laye on Eel ivnr. From what Was buown III
Eureka not less than two hundred ln'iians-
men, women and ch.lireu-werc killed OH
this Sabbath morning.
1t is believed that turner's and g%raziers OF
Eel river country, who have suffered from the
Indian depredLtions, during the past ysar,
were the men who performed the deed. The
cause assigned is. tn It the coat inIians tuI.
nished arms and ammunition t.. those III the
mountains, and gave them asylum, when haru
pressed by the volunteers. They have bee,.
seen to take large quantities of beef from the
mountaizs to their tou ,es near the settlement.
We have also the following letter oil the
same subject irJm Eureka, uunbolt Bay, Feb.
20:
l hasten to lay the following particulars be-
for the public through its coium-s, i'll regaru
to one of the most cruel and inhuuiau Ill. ssa-
cres that has ever occurred i'll this county,
may say, in California. The a rucity was per
petrated by white fiends, not because the vic
tins had committed any deprelations whatever
but simply because the whites thought they
were supplying the indians i'll the Bald Hills
with AMMUNITION, etc. The white men (m.s
called men! who committed this butchery were
encouraged aad quickened .n to tins bloody
work OF destlu ton by Il majority OF the ell
zens and stock owncrS, who say mat nothing
less than an ex5crminatioH Of all innJccmi,
starving aud de .raIeI race VIII asteieh their
thirst for bloJd anI dlaboiicL. desi g.
This Morn ng, SUNDAY, between b and 4
O'Clock, the people rtsiding OIL the Bay wer,
aroused from theis~ slum5ers by the repurts OF
pistols, ETC., VIII oh proceeded rom indian is
land, about three-quIrters Ut u mile distant,
opposite the town vi Eureka n SIN Ill boii
started from the city wharf for the scene of
this bloody tragedy, and retur ed with the i'll
telligence that the bodies Of about forty Indi-
ans lay stretched on the Island dead; and 1t is
supposed that when the full particulars arc
known, the number will not fall short of one
hur dred and twenty IN all. The atorenen-
toned mass ere was headed Gas reported by an
Indian, and believed by Il majority Ut the peo
ple.) by a white man named Brown, and Iour
other savuges of the same hue. A |" ntie.nln
from the scene Uf the massacre, says
it is the most disgusting sight he ever
witnessed.
Since the abtve Wis written, it has been re-
ported that similar attacks have been made ut
Bncksport, Humbolt Point, and Elk River
The number OF indians that have BEEN BUTCH
cred are as yet unknown. While | AM writing,
the Indians have kindled u fire OH the lsiunl, |
and arc ut present burnt z the d, ai.
CHARLES RossITER.