Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1860-03-17
Horrible massacre of indians.

NC hi"iSSNlIe lNd' J I|eHOcfdt oil thcith
ulto has an account of the butchcry of a camn
OF friendly Indians near there, by accompany
of Pitt River Rangers twenty Ifmnmbcr.
The Indians wcrc;&goged at the tipiein cut.
ting hay on cehtTact with the uniS64Etatcs
1T says: %k
The attacking party rushed upon them.
blowing out their brains, and splitting open
then skulls with tomahawks Little children
III baskets, and even babes, had their heads
smashed to pieces or cut open. Mothers and
infants shared the common fate. The screams
and cries of the victims were frigltful to hear,
but no supplicotions could avail to avert the
work of devilish butchcry 1t will scarcely
be credited that this horrible scene occurred
in Christian California; within few DAYS
travel of the State capitol. humanity sickGns
at the thought. Many Of the fugitivcs were
chased and shot as they ran. Where whole
families had been butcherod was indicated by
heaps of bodies composed of the mother and
her little ones The children, scarcely able
to run, toddled towards the squaws for pro
tcation, crying with fright, but were ovorta
ken, slaughtered like wild animals, and
thrown iuto piles. From under the havcocks.
where some of them had taken refuge, thcv
were dragged out aud slain One woman cot
the grass, with her head ,bove water, and
concealed her pappoose ON the bank in bas-
kct She was discovered aud her head blown
to pieces, the nuzzle OF the gun being placed
against her skull and the child was drowned
i'll the pond The ground was covered with
blood, and brushwood ranches, of which there
were fifty or sixty, were filled with the dead bo-
dies. Old, decrcpid squaws, young Girls and
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hatchets were used but the favortc method
appears to have been stayins in the head with
tomakuwks. The blush of dawn shonc upon
this fearful spectacle, and still the massacre
went on.
Some of these wrctchcd creatures had lived
with the very men who now struck them
down. Thus they had become, in measure,
intimate with them, and had other claims
than the common humanity which ought to
actuate every breast. But even this relation
ship did not suffice to save them. One of the
butchers, nlNcd Ice, had been attended to
while sick almost to death by the indian wo,
men. who had shown him all the simple kind
ness iuculcatcd BY thoir rude ideas Of chmity
Gnd hospitality. The wetehed il-S looncd
around in their terror; some OF them rccog
uiziug the myu Whose &c tlcv had slyed.
cyicd out, "Lcc!.Ic raj INC thojrharas to-.
wards him with gestures OF suppicut on, but
ia vain. Ice WIS among the most iufnrutc
oi the patty, aud afterwards boosted OF the
u,hcr OF stuIls lie Ii split open, and ex-
nifted his tomahawk. hacked and broken i'm
tue dreadful work This is ne sensation story.
but a sober record of Iac's Us dtt lied hv chr
inIormaut--taus so fcvrul in their nature
that )nc shuddcrs in The act OF recording them.
Vet tois miquitous d,,d goes urpunishcd. -
Unpunishod, did we say A bill OF nearly
seventy thousand dollars is now before the
Legislature awaiting payne t. TO be disuib.
utcd, npart among the criu soned murdcrers.
Many of the women were found butchercd
with their children in thcrarms the mothers
head blown or cut to piccs aud that of the
child split in twain by tomah WAS. In their
blind and insatiate fury they killed one of their
own party, (NlcElroy,) while fir lg iuto be-
Wy Of squaws who had huduled together for
protection.
When the slaughter was over the shambos
were examined, aud more than sixty squawS
AID children and ten Indian men were found
dr.d in the field. The murdercrs then re.
lurpcd to Roles house, and remained there
week within few hundlcd yards of the
ch'rn louse, upon which the copses were
allowed to &c tot aud rot iu the blaze of the
lay,a
Artcr the 'est Il and child had been
N"lcd the bru dwpod ranches o. huts were
o1 ire and the bodies bunt. The smell
rur'nn FISH the cracking of the flames,
H0tlhc black smoke soaring Up, was the co
sing scene of this tragedy which cannot re
sll any pariIlelin our countrys annals. Ihc
td'rus crept down at night and carried away
. few OF the remnants of the bodies, ana con
tinucd to do SC until they became so offensive
and drcoD,posed that they could not be re
moved. The rest were left prey to Che buz-
yards, and the bones lie bleaching there yet
unUurricd for most Of this band were with
the group which passed through this city
few weeks since en- route for their final home
in the North, whittier they were taken, as our
readers will remember.
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