, 1866-03-16
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Ir1.rIiRI.s nY REV. 81. u. sPAULpfNG.
The NhltHnn Massacre.

,tUJ . IErNBER SIX. 1
,Iiiuthe sitdpg-room there were. noy5aur per
sons bleeding Doctor and Mrs. WhitmaR, KIM
ball and Rogers Sager was in the kitcEen; AT
ter the women came in, they fastened the doorS
and took the sick children and Mrs. W. up stars.
AttRe commencement the children of the sehool
hid themselves in the loft over the school-room,
Towards night Findley, Joe Lewis and several
Indians came in and called to the children to
teonde down. yFindley selected the two Manson
Hudson Bay) boys, and the Doctors spanish
boy, to take to Walla Walla, to save their lives,
and said the.others were to be killed by the In
dian women. Ny Eliza caught Findley by the
clothes Oh, Nicholas, save me- dol lie
pusbed her away, and Lewis and the Indians
huddled them down into the kitchen. As they
we've driven into the Kitchen TO be shot, they
passed over the body Of John. His orother
Francis, fifteen years DID, stopped down, took
the wooden scarf from the CORY throat OF his dy-
. nd bFother, and spoke, to him. John gaspedi
and Immediately expired. Francis said to his
sister Matilda " shall go next, and was never
heard to speakagain The children were hud-
dlsd in corner where scene that beggars
description commenced. The large room filled
M with Indian women and naked, painted men,
yelling, dancing, scrapiug up the blood that
was deep upon the floor, and flirting 1t, paint
ing heir guns and brandishing their bloody
tomahawks over the heads of these helpless lit
we shoot2" Eliza, who could understand the
language, says; al covered my eyes with my
apron, that might not see the bloody toma-
hawk strike that just over my head.
Teiankaikt, the head chief, (who wis hung at
Oregon City, stood in the door to give the or
der In this fearful situation these dear chill
dreu were held for an hour. Those spared are
now grown-up women. and men, and scattered
over this coast and must ever look back upon
that hour With the deepest emotions, as afford
ing a striking proof on the one hand OF the
malignant, unfit state of the human unrenewed
heart for the purity Of heaven, and on the otheri
of the interposing hand of Heaven. Ups ana
Moolpod, the Doctors Indian herdsmeni craWled
in, threw their robes around the children, and
hudded, them out Of the north door into the
corner But here the Indians, who seemed to
have finished up the bloody work elsewhere,
soon collected in great numbers, arranging
themselves three or four deep the whole length
of the seventy-foOt ell, with their guns drawn
and pointing to the same door. This would
bring the children, now buddled in the corner,
in range About this time Garfield saw Joe
Lewis at the head of a band Of Indians break
in the south door of the Doctors house with
his gun. They came into the sitting-roOm, broke
down the stair door, and were coming up stairs.
The women collected around Mrs. Whitman,
who lay bleeding. - The Indians are coming
we are to die but are not prepared. What
y
ing breath replied earnestly and calmly, eco
to Jesus and ask him, and he will save you"
Thus the faithful missionary spent her last
breath, who entered the church at the carly age
of thirteen. Some one said: " Pat that old
n-barrel over the stairway to frighten them"
Mrs. W replied; d" Let all prepare to die Mr.
Rogers went to the head of the stairs, spoke to
Tomsueky, VINO said ' The young men have
done this; they will burn the house tonight
you had better all come down and 60 over to
the big house where we will take care Of you"
Oh, the demon, that could thus throw them of
their guard at the last moment. Eliza, just out
among the children, could hear all this, and
knew now what the Indians arranged along the
houses with their guns drawn, were waiting for.
Fearful moments lor the dear child, as sac heard
the steps down stairs and approaching the fatal
door, but of course could give no warning. Mr.
Kimball, Catherine, Elizabeth, and the sick
children remained in the chamber. Mr. Rogers,
Mrs Whitman and Miss Bewley came'down. The
Doctors face had been terribly cut, after Joe
came in, but was vet breathing slowly. Mrs.
W, tainted. Supposing she was to be saved,
she had told them to get some clothing from
tho bed-rOouL They laid herupOn a settee, and
Joe and Mr.. Rogers took the settce passed into
the Kitchen, Miss Bewley ahead over the body
of John, out of the kitchen door, aud about the
length of the settce, when Mr.. Rogers saw his
doom, and both dropped the settee. Mr.. r. had
Oaly time 10 rdlse ms nauAs anu eACtdlll, - NY
God, have mercy % when the guns fired. An
Indian seized Francis by the hair Of the head
while Lewis jerked one Of his pistols from his
belt, put the muZzle to Francis neck and fred,
blowing the whole charge into the boys throat.
Mr.. Rogers fell npOn his face Mrs. Whitman,
Mr.. Rogers aud Frances were all three shot in
several places, bat not killed. The balls flew
all about the children, riddling their clothes.
One passed through Miss Bewlcy's clothes and
burned her fingers, but none OF them were hit.
The smoke, blood and brains flew over them, as
they stood trembling and silent with terror.
Several naked savages gathered around Miss
Bewley with tonahawks drawn over head, but
owhen she stopped screaming they led her away
10 the large hOuse.
Aud now commenced q scene beyond the
reach of the pen, and which must convince any
.unprejudiced mind that there is hell in the
human heart if nowhere else. The poor help
less children were compeledto witness it. The
Indian women and children were particularly
active-yelling, dancing and singing the scalp
dance. Mrs. Whtmsn was thrown violently
from the settee into the mud They tried to
ride their horses over the bodies, but the horses
refused They slashsd the faces, Of their dying
victims with their whips, and as they would
writhe and grOan it only increased. the glee oi
the Indian women and children. TAey leaped
aud screamed for joy, throwing handfuis Oi
blood around, and drinking down the dying q 2
onleS OF their Victims as precious uradg IT,
These blOod-stained little sayages were to re-
ceivo the sacred ordinaDce OF baptism a few
hours after at the !s~or the priest Of Cod
the mangled bodies yet lying unburied around
him, the food Of dogs and wolves by night aud
of hogs and vultures by day, seemingly as pay
down to the Indians what they hud done
The face Of the-sun had Withdrawn from The
sight, aud the shades Of night Serese ttlng upon
the once beautiful Valley of the Wall Walla
fot ages unknown, the home aud burying- plac,
of the red man, but now to pass into the haudi
OF another race by this covenant OF the mission
aries blood. The children were led over to the
large house. The yells Of the savages diet
away. The horrible scene was changed from
the dead aud dying to the living and helpless
and became more terrific because death coulC
NOT come to the relief Of the sufferers Helpless
women and daughters, with their husbands anC
fathers dead or dying in sight young girls S,
young the knife had TO be used, subjected to tn
brutalities Of the naked, painted demons, fou
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