St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1875-01-29

tlemen. whose oaths are ready to back
their assertions.
AN INDIAN RUNNER
Came into Cedar the first night. and
reported the unsuccessful assault. The
MormonS immediately started to the
Meadows to assist. IIaight told Il Ger
tain Eisln that orders had come from
headquarters to massacre the last
damned one of them
The mans boy. now grown to middle
age, overheard the remark and is my
auth"iltN. The same person says he
odW eight OF ten men start out about 9
O'Clock that night They were armed
with shotguns, Kentucky rifles. flint
locks and every Imaginable tircarm.
and went under military orders. Ma
jor John ID. Lee had command of the
forces which started from Cedar CitN.
and finding these inadequate, sent back
to Cedar aud W ashington for reinforce
ments.
Sworn atfidaNits tell us that when
the auXilidlica had arrived, the entire
command were assembled about half
mile from the intrenchments of the
Informed hat the WHOLE company WAS
to he killed. and only the little children
"ho were too Young to remember any
thing were to hc spared. (Sre Fanny
Strnhou>c'S Tell il AL" page ;529.
Bnt the order could not be immediate
II c.trricd out hrcausc of the
DETERMINED RESISTANCE
t,I Il. i.
mile and Il half long and Il mile vide
but the mountains which form the high
rim of the little hasis converge at the
lower end and form Il Wild. rugged can
yun near Cane Spring. Some confusion
h.lS arisen among authorities by con
founding this spring with another
"Canc" Spring two miles and Il halt
south. There was hut one attack. and
that was made ut this meadow spring.
then called ''Canc" BECAUSE ot the pc
cuiar rush. resembling caue-hrak"
which grew near it, waters. Ny au-
tho'itl l. the man who was owner of
the -Ioumd then. and now.
y mound some two hundred tcrt
long. by one hundred wide. rose.
from the Meadows about thirty rods
above the spimg and completely shot
an, tL. ,.i..v NV. biIIs vith d,,.,.
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,.nrr,I.i.l, h.,,,uoJ i, tL. ,,.,,.ty
E,jI,i. frnp, ,y,.r, sId,. of Ills d.,ij,-
pen swept the iuclo>urr and uhi>tlcd
through the wagon covers. Such cattle
u- NrIc inside the corral were shot
down. and the herds outside Wvlo
>tampclrd. Yet for seven "r eight
,n nr m,steI, of the ,ituatinn. W.rr,
WIS their ,rIi.lt need. \ Ittl, brook
murmucd along not forty feet away.
and the tiu". clear spring Was not more
thsH tWo rods of. but Yet they suffered
imic~cIindhll tl"m thirst.
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