Ottumwa weekly courier. (Ottumwa, Wapello County, Iowa) 1872-1899, 1873-04-24
oTTUMWA WAPELLO COUNTY IOWA 1873.

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tho oct or shaking hands with ono
when smother warrior shot him in In,
neck and killed him. The rest of IN,
citizens fed to . neighboring house
firing as they went, and tho Indian
claim that one Of their number, and
woman and two children were killed
but Il II thought this is untrue. Mai
jackson drew HIS soldiers of, and hav
l ing marched six miles up tho river, h,
crossed Il and rej0incd the citizens a,
| Crawlcy's house, where they had fled
The Indians pursued tho troops "a
short defiance on horseback. and aftel
Maj. jackson had crossed the river
| they also forded and burned 4 house
half q mile from tho halting place o.
the soldiers. During the evening they
celebrated the victory in the true In.
dian style.
THE MASSACRE OF SETTLERS.
Thoroughly reused. the Indians on
the east side proceeded TO massacre
the whites who were settled in the
comatry around, and who had not par
ticipated in the fight, the citizens who
visited the camp on the east side hav.
| ing come from Lakeville. They mur-
dered the Body family and Mr.. Nurse,
and wounded another man. Next
they continued their raid down Rhett
Lake, killed Miller, Alexander, Broth
erton, and others. II 10 reported that
In all they murdered seventeen per-
sons, but Mr.. Applcgate has not been
able TO count more than fifteen whites
who had not molested them and were
killed.
Captain JACK retreated down the
west side Of Rhett Lake to the lava
bed, as II is called, or the pedregal, as
the stronghold really is, and there he
remains intrenched and secure. The
Ineians who were on the east side OF
the river INSIDE their way to the same
point by going around the lake. Hark-
erJim was one of the party, who num-
bereN, the Indians say only eight,
though Mrs. Brotherton swore before
the Grand Jury that there were nine.
Beyond this conflict with the troops
Capt. Jack was guilty Of no ofiense. =
All the murders are chafgcablc to the
small party on the opposite side ofthe
river.
JACKS POSITION.
Mr.. Applcgate minutcly described
the pedegral in which Capt. Jack is
intrenched, and is Of opinion that it is
simply impregnabie, SO easy is it for a
handful of men TO keep at bay any at
lacking force. The cave in which the
Indians are sheltered has only very
small opening, and it's approach is pro-
tected by rocks.
Immediately after the retreat of the
Indians to the lava bed, a concentra-
ton Of the troops was begun from Bid.
well and Wafder and from more dis.
tant ports.
The word "Pedregai," like the word
Canyon has been introduced in
to our language from the Span
ish, as designating feature of
the topography more clearly and terse.
ly than any word or phrase in our Ian
guage. As by the word canyon the
idea of q ravine between the walls of
rock IL Immediately conveyed to the
mind, % by the word pedregal we un-
derstand an irregular volcanic surface
Of basalt, trachyte, etc, more or less
pf0.on into upneavsis ifom peiow,and
cracked ana insured IN the process OF
eo0,ing.
ans b 'pedregal' Of the most elabo-
rate and cxtensiv0 description; it oc-
cnples, with but few intervals, loo
square mIlcs. Imagine, IL you can, a
m;,ss - sopsr" - and soo,Taa, sh' s.h;ns eo''
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