The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-11-02
TITLE rIMEs NEW B1ooMEIELp PA. NovEMpER 2. 1850

many prisoners and no end of Bcalps.
II was at the pleasantes season of the
year. The woods were full OF game, and
with the provisions they would get In
the settlements which they intended to
destroy they would have an abundance
Of food.
Captain Philip, with the rest Of the
Indians, was creeping stealthily thro ugh
the woods toward John Kilburn y house.
Mr.. Kilburn and his son John, Mr.. Pike
and his son, were out In the field reap
ing wheat, their guns close at hand.
Mr.. Kilburn had trained his dog to
scour the woods, and the faithful animal
ever had his eyes and ears open, and
was smiling the wind II wolf or bear
was about. On this afternoon in August
the dog came running In with his hair
In ruff, and growing.
" Indians" said Mr.. Kilburu. The
men and boys seized their guns, ran for
the house, and had just time to get In
side and bar the door when Captain
Philip and nearly two hundred Indians
made their appearance.
The Indians staid at safe distance,
and SO did Captain Philip, though he
came near enought to talk.
"Come out, old John come out,
young John give you good quar-
ters," he shouted.
There were only the two men, the two
boys, Mrs. Kilburn and her daughter
and four children, in the house, with
three hundred Indians attacking them,
but John Kilburn was not In the least
frightened-not he. Neither was Mrs.
Kilburn, nor her son or daughter. They
had several extra guns; Mrs. Kilburn
and her daughter knew how to load
them. They would rather die than be
taken prisoners. The Indians had no
cannon, and their bullets would not 20
through the stout timbers. Only by
burning the house would they be able
to get In.
Get you gone, you rascal, or I'll
quarter you ~ was the defiant answer
that John Kilburn shouted through one
of the loop-holes to Captain Philip, as
the latter went back to the dark crowd
of savages, who set up the war whoop.
"They yell like so many DEVILS" said
John Kilburn; but he was not in the
least disturbed by the bowling.
Then the bullets began to come
through the shingles on the roof, and
strike against the timbers.
The Indians surrounded the house,
but there were loop holes ON each side.
Mr.. Kiiburn and Mr.. Pike took two of
the sides, and the two boys the others.
Bang bang went the guns of Mr..
Kilburn and Mr.. Pike. Bang bang
went the boys guns. They could fire
at a rest, and take deliberate aim. The
Indians could not see the muzzles of the
guns, and the moment one of the red
men peeped from behind tree his skull
was in danger.
One by one they fell, which enraged
them all the more, and they crept near
er, firing rapidly, riddling the shingles
hoping, quite likely, that a bullet might
glance down from the roof and hit those
inside.
1.-THE old roof looks like sieve" said
John Kilburn, as he looked up and saw
the holes.
Mrs. Kilburn and her daughter were
loading the extra guns the while, and
them to the men and boys;
who kept up such rapid fire that the
Indians came to the conclusion that
there were large number of men in the
house.
"We shall soon be out of bullets,n
said Mrs. Kilburn.
A thought came: Why not catch the
bullets that were coming through the
roof? The balls had nearly spent their
force when they came through, and they
hung up a blanket with thick folds,
which stopped them entirely; and the
girl, gathering them as they fell HARM
lessly upon the floor, put them into a
ladle, melted them and ran new bullets,
which soon were whizzing through the
air, and doing damage to the enemy.
All through the afternoon the fight
goes on, the Indians aiming at loop
holes. Their bullet pepper the logs
around them. One comes in and infiicts
a CHASTITY wound in Mr.. Pixies thigh,
but the Indians do not know it, and the
brave defense is kept up till the Indians,
foiled in all their efforts, defeated, with
several of their number dead and many
wounded from the volleys fired by Col.
and his men, and by those in