The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-10-30

STANCE STORY OF CAPTIylrY--A CAROLINA
GIRL AMONG THE INDIANS FOB MANY YEARS.
The Colorado Tribune has the following
strange story:
We saw at the Planters House yesterday o
woman named Lizzie Blackburn, native of
Mount Jackson, South Carolina. who claims to
have been O prisoner among different tribes OF
Indians about four years. She is now tweuty-
eight years old and is q cripple from the loss
of fboth other limbs, which have been amputa-
ted twice, the first time at the ankle joints,
and again about three inches below the knee.
Her story of hor capture and Imprisonment ls
about as follows, commencing with how she
came to be in the Indian country: When she
was five years old her father, Thomas Black
burn, e:nigrated from South Carolina, and
ioined the Mormons at Nauvoo, Illinois. He
accompanied them to Florence, Nebraska. and
finally cmigratcd to Utah, with the earliest
|, emirrants, and preached among them. In 1868
or 1864, the father having becoming somewhat
dlssipated, and having tor some time been ac-
customed to living among the NJ Irmon Indians,
Lizzie and hor mother ana TWO Younger Sisters
aged respectively ten and fourteen years, con-
cluded to run away from him and the Mormons,
and il possible reach California. They took
with them only what they could pack about
their persons, and with rifio and some am
muniti.n started westward from Salt Lake,
wandered for Line months, when they were
captured by the Digger indians. Lizzie
was sold by the Diggcrs to the Foxes. Tho
mother and two remaining listers when they
learned CT LiZZie'5 sale ran away from the
Diggers and were pursued. When found they
had Starved and frozen to death, and were
buried on Horse Creek. The Foxes sold Liz
zie to the Snakes. Then she learned OF the
death of her mother and sisters and saw them
buried. She ran away from the Snakes, but
upS TrnZHn T.
tempt, and wa5 afterwards again frozen. She
saws that two halt breeds, named Towantinus
and Puchanatagh, took her to Washington, ID.
c., where her limbs were amputated, and that
sho was afterwards returned to the Snakes by
his direction, he being among thcm as a kind
OF chief ut the time. She says that her father
has spent most OF his time among the In
dams for the last scvcn OF eight year I, and is
one of them now. He is with the Arapahoes or
Cheyennes. Tho Stakes trIdel her to the
Arapabocs from whom she escaped about one
wear ago. by the assistance OF Fred. Jones, q
government scout, and was brought into Ellis
worth. At the time OF her escape, tie Ara
pahoes were campcd at the Big Bend OF the
Arkansas. portion OF the time since her
escape she has been engaged as scout, but
for the last few months has bc5n dol e house,
wo.k at stage station down on the Smoky
Hill road Fred. Julc5, hcr rcscuer, WAS dis
charged from government emp oy last spring
lust before the outbreak down on the Solomon
in Kansas, and rs he threatened to 60 with the
Indians, 1t was supposed that he was with them
at that time. She says she cou'ited one hun
dred and fifty white men in ono IudIan camp
which she visited while acIinG i'll the capacity
of scout and that there are great many
among all the tribes. The D.gSors treated her
most cruelty, and all treated her very roughly.
Her fathe., though, often protected her from
severe treatment. She says that she has an
uncle living somewhere ON the North Platte
River, and she is now OIL the way to him. She
expected to leave this morning.