The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1877-04-05

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Young md Geozrs A. Gmith had saved my life.
W neax beinx BLOOD atnnedn IN Paxuwnn
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aoolem d nv au1o&iorrs11hy.
Gatafday mstnfne al nj ready, md ev.v
- saissed . his pot Of duty. During t6e
ceive the emigzlnfs About eleven O'Clock q m.
The txoopu undr lfnf Hiabee took their position,
on IL road. ThswAffe ~ ~ in kept up in
TIE coezal. Hiaboe called William Bateman, Of
TIE ranlx, to take ASe Of truoe to tbs coral.
He - ma abodt half way With another white
Aag from u emiezant camp They had ! talk.
tn emifrsnt - opld that we hSd come to re-
- tkea Il thsy u6uld tut u Both laesi with
Dag Fetufned . their respective places and re-
ported, and Wexc' to meet again snd bring
word. Hiebee called me out to 20 and M
form them Of Tie conditions, and, if
accepaed, Dah Mcfarland, bruther to John Nc
Fariand, the lawyer, who acted - id-de-camp,
would bring back word. and then two wagons
would be sent far the firearms children, cloth
ing. etc. obeyed, and the ternns proposed were
accepted. hut mot without distrust.
had y little to say - possible. In fact nv
tDnguD fs1nsed to perform il ofISee. snt down
On the eround in 10 col1al near wlere some
young men were engaged in payinx their lAst no
spects to some persun who bad Just died of a
twice, and talked while nat there. She related
their troubles; said that seven of their number
were killed and forty mine wounded on the irst
stack; that seysnf I'D died since. She asked
me If was IN Indian Agent said: & In one
sense an, = lie GOyenW hns appointed me
farmer 10 III Indians rid her this to aatisfy
hcf. 4 kaasd azSsrWxfd - - snzns auessti6n
uss asked and sns~ersd = IL ~ NAME s.
McFarland, who had beea seuf b Hiebee to the
corral to hurry me up f6r fearthat lie Indians
would come lack and be upon them
When an was ready, 6snuel McMurdy, coun-
selor to Bishep p. X. Smith (Klinger smith,,
drove out ON IL lad. Bis wagon Ind the sew
cnteen children, clothing and armA 6amnel
knight drove the other team, with the five
wounded men and one boy about fifteen yesn
old. walked behind the front wagon to direct
the ccurse and shun being in the heat of the
slaughter; but this kept to myself When we
got turned fairly to the east, / motioned to
McMurdy to steer north acrun the valley. ut
the same Tins told the woiaen who were in the
which they did. Instead Of saying to McMurdy
not TO drive 90 fast - he swore TO on my trial
mid, to the contrary, to drive on, as my aim was
TO get out Of sight before the firing commenced,
which we did. We we're ahout half mile ahead
Of the company when we heard the first firing.
We had driven over = ridge Of rolling ground
and down ON low Fat
line. The moment the firing commenced
McMurdy halted and tied his lines across the
rod of his wasoh-box, stepped down, and
coolly, with q double-baueled shotgun.
walked hack to knights wagon, which had
the wounded men, and was about TWEEN
y fest, IN the rear As be raised bis
their spirits, for it i for Tie Kingdom Of Hea-
VEINS sake that We do this, fired, and killed two
men. Saul Knight had misunderstanding rife,
and be shot and killed the two men. then struck
the wounded boy on the head, who fell dead. In
the meantime drew i've sbooter from nv belt,
which accidentally went of, cutting across Nc
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cool; you was near killing me. Look where the
ball cut (pointing to the place in his pants) At
this moment heard the scream of a child.
looked up and saw an Indian have a little hoy
by the hair of his head, dragging him out of the
hind end Of the wagon, with knife in his hand,
getting ready to cut his Throat spfang for the
ed At the top Of INV voice: aAvicR, coma cot
too sooct" (stop, Won fool.) The child was ter
ror-stricken. His chin was bleeding. 1 sup
posed it was cut by the knife, but afterward
learned it was done by the wagon-box, rs the
Indian yanked the boy down by the hair Of The
head. had NO sooner rescued the child than
another Indian seised q little Girl BY the hair.
rescued her. and a soon e 1 could speak / told
the Indians they must not hurt the children:
that would die before they should be hurt; that
we would buy the children from them,
BY this time the Indians had rushed up around
the wagon in quest of blood, and dispatched the
In ;u.toe . my .tatem eg would saw that If
INV shooter had not prematurely exploded /
would have had hand in tlispatchine the five
wounded. had lost control Of myself, and
scarce knew what was about saw an Indian
pursue q little girl who was fleeing. He
caught her about one hundred feet from the
wagon, and plunged his knife through her. |
said 70 McMurdy he bad better drive the chill