Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1869-07-02

THE RECENT HORRIBLE INDIAN OUT
RACES IN KANsAs.-A Leavenworth pa
per of the Goth gives the following par
ticulars in regard to the recent massacre
of thirteen persons upon Saline river by
the Indians
"On Sunday, May so, as Mr.. Thomas
Alderice was returning from Salina to
his home ON the Saline river he heard,
when about three miles from his residence,
that band of Indians had been into the
settlement and murdered a large number
of people and destroyed considerable
property. On arriving at his home he
found it deserted, and was almost paral-
yzed with grief at finding one of his chill
dren, six years of age, dead on the ground,
with four bullets in his body, and anoth-
er of his children dead, shot with five ar
rows. A third child have FIVE arrow
wounds in his body, one entering his
back to the depth Of five inches. The
wounded one is nowlying at Mr.. Zeigler's
house on Saline river, alive and doing
well. Mrs. Alderdice and her babe, aged
eight months, were carried away captives
by the Indians. 1t seems that the In
dians-who are supposed to have been
members of the Dog Soldier band of
Cheyennes-came upon the settlement
about an hour before dark. They divid-
ed into bands of from five to seven, and
made simultaneous attacks in different
localities. Mr.. Weitzel, farmer, who
lived about two miles from Mr.. Alder
dices house, was murdered, together with
a comrade, and Mrs. Weitzel was car
ried off by the savages in company with
the wife of our informant. The Welt
zels were from Hanover, and had only
been in the country about two months.
A Danish man and wife were murdered
on Spillman Creek, about seven miles
from the mouth. A silversmith from
Chicago, named Peterson, had his head
mashed with his own AK, and was shot
through the heart with an arrow. They
tried to burn his house, but were frus-
trated in all their attempts to destroy it,
A young boy named Harrison, about Is
years old, was shot through the head with
an arrow, and his head mashed with a
war club, which was found beside his
body, broken in two A boy named
Shoots, about 10 years old, was shot
through the body, and no hopes of his
recovery are entertained, as the dart of
an arrow is supposed to be still sticking
in his lungs. The house of Thomas
Noon was attached, and the assailants
driven off by three Swedes, two of the
Indians being wounded. The house of
William Hendrickson was saved by the
heroism of two women-Mrs. Hendrick-
son and Mrs. Green-who fired on the
savages several times and finally drove
them away. When the Indians we're af.
ter young Smoots, a boy aged twelve and
another aged nine, started to the rescue,
the elder carrying gun and the young
er the ammunition. They kept the MUIR
derers away and prevented them from
killing Shoots. Thirteen persons in all
were killed, and all the movable proper
ty in the settlement destroyed or carried
away. Mr.. Alderdice came to Kansas
about six years ago and has been living
out where his family was murdered for
some time past Mr.. Alderdice is here
to make his complaints in person to the
military, and see if any assistance can
be rendered him in looking for his wife
and child. He has secuted the country
for considerable distance around the
scenes of the outrages, and gives it as his
opinion that the savages have not left
this section of the country, but are still
proving around in bands of from four
to eight"