Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1875-11-26

inc and repairing tha.. ffo-t;fics..;;oI Fl,
: headquarters were at this station and b
! rendered valuable services to the countr,
by the vigilent watch he kept on the In
J dians. Scouts were constantly kept out
and whenever body of savages appearet
they were pursued Immediately and obliged
to fly.
In October of this year, small body o.
savages came to the house of John Martin
in the Chilisquaque settlement, near the
residence of Colonel James Murray. and
barbarously murd cred him and bis wife.
They also took from the house two young
women and little girl seven years Of age
and carried them OFF. On the 24tb Of the
same month two men named Lee and Ca
ruthers were sent out as spies from Fort
Rise. They were waylaid and fired upon.
Lee was killed and Caruthers taken prison.
| er.
About this time there lived near where
the town of New Berlin now stands. n
family named Klincsmith. A small! party
of Indians coming upon their dwelling
whilst the males of the family were busy in
the harYest-fcld of neiGhbor, plundered
the house and carried away two of Kline
smiths daughters, one sixteen the other
fourteen years old. The party retreated to
a spring north of New Berlin where they
halted and not satisfied with the triaipg
mischief they had done left their prisoners
and booty in care of the oldest in the party
whilst the main body proceeded to the har-
vest field in the hope of getting some scalps
to carry home as trophies of their success.
The oldest man lighted his pipe and sat
down at the foot of tree keeping an eve
upon his prisoners. After some time the
rain began to fall when Betsey. the eldest
of the girls, intimated to the sentinel that
she meant to cut down some branches from
the trees and cover small bag of flour |
which the Indians had brought from her
fathers house. The Indian, little suspect-
ing her real intention, permitted her to |
take one of the axes or tomahawks. She
pretended to be very busily occupied with
her task but contrived to get behind the
old man and buried the axe in his head.
BY this time the scalping party, finding
the barvesters too numerous and well
armed for their purposes, were on their re-
turn, and had already approached near
en- ough to hear the groan of the old Indian
as he fell. The girls fed and the sayages
pursued and fred. The younger Girl i~st
rs she was in the act of springing Jver a
ALLEN tree was pierced with bisilet which
entered below the shoulder blade and came
but at the breast. She fell aud Immediately
,olled herself under TIE log which at that
point was raised a little from the ground.
rhe sayages sprang over the log in chase
,f her sister without observing that any
,ne lay under the log. Betsey being q
strong and active lass gave them a hard
.un SO that the harvesters, alarmed by the
iring, came to the rescue i'll time to save
Ter and change the pursuers into fugitves.
They found the girl under the fallen tree
much terrified and weakened BY loss Of
2Jl99fad but fortunately not dangerously
1er body without touching any vital organ.
She recovered aud afterwards married
nan named Campbell. Becoming widow
she married again. Her last husbands
name was Chambers. Betsey also MAJ
ried and with her husband removed to one
of the western States.
To he TOufinNed |