The mountain signal. (Mount Vernon, Ky.) 1887-18??, 1888-02-24

NlSlOllS. Ullt nUu oTlNcl ul SUCH pace
us to exhaust one of his horses. MIL
Ter and his wife were Germans, cool
and phlegmatic. Their all was invest
ed right there. While they knew that
trouble was at hand, they did not want
to abandon every thing ut a mere
alarm. We had three horses in the
stable, and Saunders begged hard for
one to take the place of his exhausted
| beast. He was bound and determined
to get on, even if he had to 90 on foot,
and Miller consented to let the horse
90. While he was being harnessed in
| Saunders asked us to throw out some
of the merchandise and Tighten the
vehicle. We took out four kegs of
powder, about one hundred pounds of
lead, fifty pounds of shot, three double
barreled shot-guns and some groceries,
and the horse was no sooner in the
| traces than Saunders drove eff ut q
gallop.
well, what shall we dop" asked
Mrs. Miller, us we stood looking after
the wagon.
Stay and fight" replied the hus-
| band.
| / was then boy of sixteen, and had
been with the Millers over u year.
There was never day but that some
of the Sioux came along, and in many
instances they had eaten of our food.
Miller did not question the uprising,
| but he did not think it as serious a
matter as it turned out to be. and with
true Dutch grit he proposed to stick.
| We went into breakfast, ate as heartily
my employer said:
Now we will get ready for the In
dams"
AS we went out doors we saw three
columns of smoke in different direc-
| tons, showing that the murderOus red
skins were at work. Miller had one
hundred and sixty acres of land, almost
every acre as level rs floor. We had
just finished building milk-house
over II spring, about three hundred
feet from the house. Around the
spring was about two acres of broken
ground, underlaid with rock, and we
| had blasted out sufficient of this to lay
up the walls of the milk-house. Miller
was n stone mason by trade. and his
work had been well done. The house
was pretty large being eighteen by
twenty-four inside the walls, and the
walls were perhaps foot thick. The
roof had been planked and then sodded,
and, the ~ of heavy plank. The
plsse,s Yt norV lake a fpitqi ltayt, and
ysfile lssxSld. Grrying ifo it 's'ien r.f ::
ne Mrs. Miller S*ers.J 1tl'et husband
Used crowbar to maize loopholes in
the walls. In the course of an hour
he drove five or six, and then he bored
two in the door with n big auger.
We carried in all the provisions in
the house, followed by the clothing and
the bedding. While we worked we kept
our eyes opened for signs of Indians, but
it was eleven o'clock before we saw
them coming They were not more
than mile away when we retired tc
our fort and barricaded the door. AL
the live stock had been turned loose
and driven away, while the fowls were
flying about on the prairie. There was
very little left in the house, and the
worst they could do was to burn it.
When we shut ourselves up | missed
two of the kegs of powder, but to my
query us to what had become of then
Miller made no reply, except by laugl
He had been working by himself all the
forenoon, digging holes and running
trenches, but | had been too busy t.
notice what he was up to.
There were thirty-two mounted In
dams in the band which came up, an(
among them they had five fresh scalps
Every one had plumber of some sor
from the settlers cabins, and two Of
three appeared much the worse foI
liquor. They had probably seen II
enter the milk-house, for they rode
right up TO the cabin withou
fear. We could see them yer,
plainly, and among the gan:
we picked out several wh
had often been supplied with food an
ammunition. There were yells of rag
from those who dismounted and en-
tele ed the house to find it stripped, bu
presently council was held in the on
big room. After few minutes IN In
dian appeared around the corner o
the house with a%hite rag tied to
stick, and when he had waved it II fe,
times he called out that he wanted
, talk Miller shouted to him to com
ON, and he advanced to within fit
feet of the fort before he stopNed an
called out:
"All come out. Indians nd hun
Dutchman.
'Is there WARP" shouted Miller
{ "No war-no war. Young menl &c
t drunk and ride around, but no Wal
, Indians all like Dutchman."