The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1867-12-21
Stickus, the chief, came in one day and took
the cop from his head and gave it to me and
a handkerchief for my child"
MORE or TnR MASSACRE.

the cop from his head and gave il to me and
n handkerchief for my child"
MORE or TuR MASSACRE.
The sun Of the 30th Of November refused
10 shine on the once beautiful and happy val.
ley of the Wnlla Walla, now stained with
the blood Of Gods servants, and the bloody
work was not yet done, Mr.. Kimball, with
an arm broken, aud otherwise badly wound.
cd, remained in the chamber with the four
sick children and the two u lest Sager girls,
Catherine and Elizabeth. They tore up
sheet, wound up his arm aud bandaged his
bleeding body; but he suffered terribly all
night, aud became frautic for water in the
morning; said he would have il If killed In
the attempt, aud crawlcd out 10 the river. -
a friendly Indian saw him and hid him in
the brush, but for reasons unknown about
sundown he crawled out and came toward his
house. Catherine says! II heard the crack
OF n gun by my side and turned. Frank rs.
eaioom, an Indian, was taking his gun from
his face laughing, and pointing 10 the fence,
he said "See how / make the SugupoOs
(Amercans) tumble" Mr.. kimhall was
falling from the fence near the door, the blood
running down tho rails. Frank then took
Susan kimbCll by the arm and laughingiy
said "See, have killed your father. and
you are to be my wife," and dragged her
away.
? The same evening Mr. Young, coming
down with team, was met over tho hill, d
mile from the station, and shot. The same
afternoon, Gen. Brouilette, Vicar General
for the Pope Of Rome on this coast, arrived
from the Umatilla at tho camp of the mur.
doFers, which was close by tho station. They
kept up tlie scalp dance all night, the screams
Ut our helpless women, writing in the hands
Of the unrestraiucd demons, in plain hear,
ing.
On Wednesday a shocking deed was com
mitted-0nc that must chill the heart Of ey.
cry American. and forever blacken the name
af Gen. Brouilctte ms plilauthr0piat, aud
cannot but equally hlacken the names and
characters Of those persons in this country
and in Washington, connected with the Gov.
ernmcnt, who have taken pains to Justify the
savages and excuse Brouilctte. lie, the Gen.
eral, told me with his own lips. as tho hirto.
/ ~ will show ''This morning. after bap.
tized the children Of the camp, | went over
% see what | could do for the women aud the
/ dead bodies"
! Thus the new missionary-this priest o!
1 God in the yestments bf God-commenced hi.
mission work in his new field, which he had
emphatieally gained BY American blood, by
/ buptizing those hlood-stainel children oi
these bloody savage murIcrcrs, the dead bod
/ les vet living unburied about him For the
/ last twenty years | have not ceased 10 ask
! the unprejudicel what eject this baftizing,
under those circumstances, had upon ths
miaks Of the Indians. There can bat one
answer be given. They understood the
/ priest as approving what they had done and
| were doing. After the baptizing of the muir
dcFers, the bodies were collected, sheets sew
ed around them by mY daughter Eliza and
others, they were hauled by hand in wagons
and pu; into pit aud slightly covered
Sails and Bewley were removed 10 tht
large huilding aud commenced 10 gain slow
~. The helpless women and girls, berelt o
their husbands. fathers and brothers, by the
cruel tosnahawk, stripped of their property
cattle, teams, money. and even Of their cloth
ing, till thcy had not enough 10 keep then
warn. were subjected 10 a fate more tcrrii,
than death itself. and beyond the power o
the pen to describe The Indians admittes
that in some cases they had TO use the knife
their victims being 50 young. ! am told b,
the volunteers that three Indians who report
ei these acts 10 them the next summer. rath
er boasiingly, were missing the next day.
Our captive women were compelled to cool
/ for large numbers Of the sayagcs every day
who would call upon Eliza to know if poiso
was put in the food, and requiring her TO ca
Of il first. Robbed Of the most Of her cloth
! ing, exposed to the cold and the smell G
blood while sewing sheets around the often
siye dead bodies, constant calls from the ter
rited white women aud the Indians, TO inter
pref for them, Eliza sunk down in n fe'
, days and was laid almost helpless in IN
same room with Sails and Bewley. On .h
J eighth day after the first butchery, three In
dians came into the room and said that th
, great white chief at Umatilla had said tina
they must kill the two sick men to stop th
/ dying Of their people. They tore of the ia
. ble.lcgs and commenced beating Sails an
! Bewley, and were full half an hour in KILN
them-their victims struggling over the foo
and around the room, the blood and brain
aying over my child, who was compelled {
hear the blows and groaus aud witness til
| terrible scene. Miss Bewley attempted I
rush ia from another room, when she hear
the agonies Of her dying brother, but til
women held her back. The bodies wer
| thrown out at the door, and were not allowe
E Ito be buried for three days.