The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-11-08

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shooting Dresser would exclaim
"Therc goes one Of the Government guns"
Their sound was quite llerent 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.
| took May Price, three years old, and we
all ran to fathers room. 1t was not dis
turbed. The papers and books were just as
he left them. "Pepys' Diary" lay open on
the table. We knew the building would be
burned, and ran across Douglass avenue Tor
field of sage brush beyond 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 towards Doug
lass camp, near the river. We had gone
100 yards when the Utes saw us. They
threw down the blankets and came running
towards us, firing as they came. Bullets
whizzcd as thick us grasshoppers around us.
| do not think they intended to kill us-on-
ly to frighten us-but they tried TO shoot
Frank Dresser, who had almost reached the
sage brush.
CAPTURED.
Mother was hit by bullet, which went
through her undertaking and made
flesh wound three inches long. AS the In
dans came nearer they shouted:
awe no shoot Come to usp
had the little girl, and the Indian nam
ed Pursune said for me to go with him.
II = and another Ute seized me 10y the arms
and started toward the river. An Uncom
pahgre Indian took Mrs. Price and her
baby, and mother was taken to the head
quarters of Douglass. We came to a wide
irrigating canal, which father had the In
dans build. I said l could not cross it.
The Indians answered by pushing me
through the water. | had on only mocca-
sins, and the water and mud were deep.
The baby waded too, and both of us came
out wet to the skin.
As we were walking in Chief Joseph came
and pushed away Pursune, and, in great
anger, told him to give me up. I under
stood some Of the language. Pursune re-
fused TO surrender me. Hot words ensued, +,
and feared the men would fight for mo-
meut. thought | would ask Douglass to
silent, and afterwards was glad did not go.
| Douglass finally wentaway and we walked
an toward the river. Before reaching the
stream, not more than two hundred yards
away, both my conductors pulled out bot
ties and drank twice. No whisky was sold
at the agency. Their bottles were 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
won't 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 tall man.
He had two mules, stolen from the agency.
1t was now sundown. Packing was finished
at dark, and we started for the wilderness
of the south. | rode a horse with a saddle,
but no bride. Theihalter strap was so short
that it dropped continually. The child was
lashed behind me. Pursune and his assist
ant rode each side of mo, driving the pack
mules ahead. About twenty other Indians
were in the party.
Mother came later, riding bareback be-
hind Douglass, both on one horse. She was
sixty-four years old feeble in hea lth wound
ed and not recovered from a broken thigh
caused by fall two years ago. Chief Doug
lass gave her neither horse, saddle nor
blankets. We followed 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
Law down to rest with mother lying not ial
, from me.
An INDIAN BRAGGART's SPEECH.
Chief Douglass was considerably excited
and made speech to me, with many gcs-
lures and great emphasis. He recited his
grievances and explained why the massa-
ere began. He said Thornburgh told the
Indians that he was going te arrest the
head chiefs, take them to Fort Steele and
put them in the calaboose-perhaps hang
them. lie said my father had written al
the letters to the Denver papers and circu
, lated wild reports about what the Indians
would do as set forth by the Western pres
and that he was responsible for all the hos
ulity against the Indians among the white:
in the West.
He said pictures of the agent and all his
family, women and children, had beer
found on Thornburgh's body just before the
attack on the agency, and the pictures wer'
covered with blood and showed marks o
knives on different parts of the bodies. The
throats were cut The one Of the agent hac
a bullet hole in his head. lie said | wat
represented IN one of the pictures as sho
through the breast Douglass said my
father had made these pictures, representing
the prospective fate Of his family, and sen
them TO Washington to be used to influence
. fight the Indians. This remarkable state
ment, strange as it NAV seem, was after
ward told me by dozen different Indians
% and the recital and the particulars were al
% ways the same.
5 NoCK-SG AND SINGING
S While Douglass was telling this he stood
e in front of me with his gun, and his ange
was dreadful. Then he shouldered his gur
D and walked up and down before me in thu
moonlight and initiated the employees whC
had kept guard at the Agency for three
nights before the massacre. lie Knocked
, them and sneered and laughed at them anC
said he was "a heap big Indian" Then he
sang English songs which he had heard the
BOYS sing in their rooms at the agency. II,
sang the negro melody, Swing Low, Swee
Chariot" and asked me if l understood.
told him did, because he had the wordi
aud tune perfectly committed.
He said father had always been writing I,