The New York herald., 1879-10-30

1t lay on the bed. He took it, and, just as we
were fleeing out by the door the windows were
smashed in and half dozen shots were fired
into the room. Frank Dresser fired and killed
Johnson's brother. We ran into the milk room,
which had only one small window and locked
the door and hid under a shelf. Firing went ON
for several hours at intervals. There was no
shouting, no noise, but frequent firing. While
waiting in this horrid suspense Dresser said he
had gone to the employees rooms, where all guns
were stored, but found them stolen In the in
tervals of shooting Dresser would. cxclaim:-
''There goes one OF the government guns"
Their sound was quite different from those of
the Indians. We stayed in the milk room until
it began to fill with smoke The sun was half
an hour high.
DASH FOR LIFE
I took May Price, three years old, and we all
ran to fathers room. 1t was not disturbed.
The papers and books were just as he left them.
"Pepy's Diary" lay open on the liable. We knew
the building would be burned and IN across
Douglass avenue for field of sage brush be-
yond the ploughed ground. The Utes were SO
busy stealing the annuity goods that they did
not see us at first. About thirty of them,
loaded with blankets, were carrying them tow
ard Douglass camp, near the river. We had
gone 100 yards when the Utes saw u.s. They
threw down the blankets and came running
toward us, firing as they came. Bullets whizzed
tlIink they intended to kill us-only to frighten
us-but they tried to shoot Frank Dresser, who
had almost reached the sage brush.
Mother was hit by bullet, which went
through her upderclothing and made flesh
wound three inches long. AS the Indians came
nearer they shouted:-
''We no shoot! Come to usw
had the little girl and the Indian named
Pursune said for me to go with him.
He and another Ute seized me by
the arms and started toward the river.
An Uncompahgre Indian took Mrs. Price
and her baby, and mother was taken to
the headquarters of Douglass. We came to a
wide irrigating canal which father had the In
dians build. l said could not cross it. The
Indians answered by pushing me through the
ri ~, 1v ocoaco;po ou1 f1,a
and mud were deep. The baby waded too, and
both of us came out wet to the skin.
QUARREL TO POSSESS HER.
AS we were walking in Chief Joseph came
and pushed away Pursunc. and in great anger,
told him to give me up. understood some of
the language. Pursune refused to surrender
me. Hot words ensued, and feared the men
would fight for moment. l thought l would
ask Douglass to take me, but both were
drunk kept silent, and afterward was glad
did not go.
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Douglass finally went away and we walked
on toward the river. Before reaching the
stream, not more than two hundred yards away,
drank twice. No whiskey was sold at the
agency. Their bottles We're not agency bottles
The Indian, Pursune, took me to where his
ponies were standing by the river, and seated
me on pile of blankets while he went for more.
The Indians were now on all sides. could not
escape. Pursune packed his effects, all stolen
from the agency, on n government mule which
was taller than II tall man.
THE PRISONERS CARRIED SOUTH.
He had two mules stolen from the agency.
1t was now sundown. Packing was finished ut
dark, and we started for the wilderness of the
south. / rode horse with saddle, but no
bridlc The halter strap was so short that it
dropped continually. The child was lashed be-
hind me. Pursune and his assistant rode each
side Of me, driving the pack mules ahead.
About twenty other Indians were in the party.
MRS. MEEKER's SAD PLIGHT.
Mother came later, riding bareback behind
Douglass, both Oh one horse. She was sixty
four years old, feeble in health, wounded and
not recovered from u broken thigh caused by u
fall two years ago. Chief Douglass gave her
neither horse, saddle nor blankets. We fol-
lowed the river, and on the other side Pursune
brought me hatful of water to drink. We
trotted along until nine o'clock, when we halted
for half an hour. All the Indians dsmounted
and blankets were spread on the ground and l
laid down to rest, with mother lying not far
from me.
AN INDIAN BRAGGART's SPEECH.
Chief Douglass was considerably excited and
made u speech to me with many gestures and
great emphasis. He rccited his grievances and