The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-04-04
From the s.p Francisco pullsap, March 5. :

From the San Francisco Bullstip, March 5.
Horrible Massacre OF geo India Ms.
Between three and four O'Clock % Sum
day morning, (26.h Fsbruaryl en- attack
was made BY party of white men .nPop the
Indians ct several viIlsges Ground Hum6oldt
Bay. On Indian Islsnd, opposite the town
Of Eureks, more than forty Indisns were
killed, three. .fourths OF the number being
women and children. On the beach, south
Of the entrance to the bay forty or fifty In.
dians were also killed. Report says all that
were there-every one-waS killed. II ID
also reported, and no doubt true, that Q sim.
ultaneous attack was made upon the village
on Eel river. From what was known In
Eureks not less then two bundled IDdians-
men, women and ,children-were killed on
this Sabbath morning.
1t is believed thst farmers and graziers oil
Eel river country; who have suffered from
the Indian depredations, during the pasI
yea, were the men who performed the deed.
The cause assigned 10, that the coast Indians
furnished arms and ammunition to those in
the mountains, and gave them asylum, when
hard pressed by the volunteers. They have
been seen to take large quantities Of ,beei
from the mountains 10 their houses near the
settlements.
We have also the folio wing letter on the
same subject from Eureka, Humboldt Bay
Feb. 26: .-....-. .-,g.. .--...p
l hasten to lay the following particulars
before the public through its columns, in
regsrd to one OF the most cruel and inhu
man massscres that has ever occurred In this
country-I may say, H. Californis. The
atrocity was perpstrated by white tiends, moi
because the victims had committed any dep.
redutions whatever, but simply because the
whites thought they were supplying the In.
dians 10 the Bald Hills with smunition, etc
The white men (miscalled men y who com
mitted the butchery were encouraged and
quickened on to this bloody work of destruc
ton by majority OF the citizens and stock
owners, who say that nothing less than On
| extermination Of an innocent, starving anC
degraded race will quench their thirst fol
blood and dabolic,l designs.
This morning, Sunday, between 8 and .
O'Clock, the people residing on the Bay wer'
aroused from their slumbers by the report
OF pistols, etc., which proceeded from India,
Island about three quarters of a mile dis
tant' opposite the town of Eureka. A smal
boat started from the city wharf for tn,
scene OF this bloody tragedy, and returned
with the intelligence that the bodies Of abou
forty Indians lay stretched on the Islsn,
dead; and it is supposed that when the full
particulars are known. the number will no
tall short Of o0e hundred and twenty in all
The aforesaid massacre was headed (,s re
ported by an Indian, and believed BY a mA
jor''y oi the people,) by white man name
Brown and tour other aavsges Of the sam
hue. A gentleman returned from the scen'
OF, the m 'ssucre. says that it is the most dis
gusting sight he ever Witnessed
Since the above was written, it has bee
reported that similar attacks have been mad
at Bucksport, Humboldt Point, and Ell
River. The number of Indians that hav
been butchered are yet unknown. Will
l AN writing, the Indians have kindled fir
on the Island, and are ut present burnin
the dead. CHARLES RoSsITER.