Wichita eagle., 1889-09-03

and jump over chair back, aad so on. This
agility and strength stood her III good stead
when, in 1855, she, with other women and
children, were captured by the Shawnees,
and the Indians began hasty retreat to their
homes beyond the Ohio. On the night Of the
third day out Mrs. Ingles gave birth to an
infant daughter, but this fact caused no de-
lay, which would have meant the death Of
both mother and child, for the next morning
she was able to ride on. At the Shawnee
town the prisoners were divided up and scat
tered, but Mrs. Ingles and her baby were kept
there, where she made herself SO useful that
after a few weeks she was taken along with a
! company of Shawnees to help make salt at
the Big Bone Lick, south of the Ohio Thus
she was the first white woman to enter Ken
lucky, long antedating the arrival there of
Mrs Daniel Boone who is usually given that
distinction.
PERILoUs ESCAPE.
From here she resolved to escape, and aban-
doning her babe to the Indians started with
| an old Dutch woman who had more recently
been brought to the Lick. With nothing to
eat but berries, roots and mussels, with no
weapons Of defense, nor any protection from
the weather beyond their ragged clothes,
barefooted and guided only by Mrs. Ingles'
hope of recognizing again the mouth OF a
| large river which she had descended all the
way from her home. the two women forced
! their way eastward along the fore5tod bank
| of the Ohio. AT last hope became certainty,
| for the picture of the river mouth printed on
! her memory did not fail her. 1t was the
! Great kanawha, and its sources were the
| streams which flowed through Diapers
! Meadows
Thew turned up its course, but were often
| interrupted by large streams, which they
were obliged to ascend for miles before they
could cross and retrace their channels to the
| main river that was their only guide. As
they got up to where the mountains are high
| and close together, great cliffs, bordering
| what is now the canyon of the New, down
which the Chesapeake and Ohio railway
makes its adventurous way, they We're often
obliged 10 scale their heights, only to find a
worse one just ahead. The old woman near
! ~ gave out, became quarrelsome and finally
attempted to xiii her companion for food,
Mrs. Ingles only escaping after frightful
encounter Through such almost gpperhu-
man trials did she persist, until at last she
came to her home. She had Travelled in forty
days probably 500 miles.
Had this simply been a story of human
maintenance under dreadful circumstances,
it could be matched by many another wo-
mans story of that period; but it amounted
to a most valuable exploration, since, until
then, nobody knew that their waters gather
ed into great river, or emptied into the
Ohio, nor what was the Oilio's lower course,
nor that Saline springs existed in the western
valleys. ven Mrs. Ingles stopped near
where Chan ston, the capital of West Vir-
ginia, now stands, and made salt for her cap
tors N her own kettles she was laying the
foundation of the long race of Kanawhs salt
makers and of one Of the most extensive local
industries IN the west. This woman lived to
be very old and saw turnpike stages and
Steamboats, afording a quick passage over
the route she had travelled so YEARLY, which
became one of the main avenues of enigra-
ton and gives today the shortest railway
route between Chicago and the seabosrd
Pieasanter stories ere those of the women
and girls who with such courage and skillful
woodcraft have undertaken long missions to
carl news that help was needed. or TO get
powder Such was that girls ride in the
mountain edge OF North Carolina, which
named al the creeks according to the miles
she had passed. Such was mad Ann Bal
ley's" ide, from Cleadenlin's fort, here at
Charleston Nv. Va TO Lewishurg 100 miles
away, TO get powder upon which sheir sal
vation depended; and such was the daring ex-
ploi. OF pretty Elizabeth Zane.
She wa the sister of Gel. Ebenezer Zane,
after whom GAINESVILLE, O, was named, but
who in l7S2 was near the fort at Wheel-
ing. A sudden alarm caused everybody ex-
cept those at Zane's house to hasten into the
stockade, among whom was the eofonels
young sister, girl Who had just returned
from hool in Philadelphia and was totally
unua to tiaess Wild scenes. The attack WIS
fierce, prolonged. and the powder gave
out before rhered SKINS showed any signs of
retreating In this emergency it became
necessary to renlenish their ammunition
from Col Zanes house, which was about
fifty PAGES distant.
Il was therefore proposed that one of their
feeteSt men should endeavor to reach the
house, get keg Of powder and return with
1t. The enterprise was full Of the keeneSt
danger, vet many volunteers presented thsrn-
selves for the task Among them was Eliza
beth Zane SEQ was yoang, athletic and
fearless. "Toa have not one man TO spare,
she pleaded III fall-it is only girl, who
VIII not be missed in the defense Of the fort
Let me goi" Hsr services were accepted
DivesGinE herself of impeding skirts she stood
ready for the hazardous adventure, and
when the gate was opened sue bounded forth.
buoyaRt with youthful confidence OF success
Wrapt in aInazemens, she Indisg1s beheld
her, but shouting: "A squawi a saHaw!" dis
dained TO interrupt her progress to ssr broth
er's door. Then Gel Zane fastened n table
cloth around Ter waist and, e1nptyTng into il
keg OF powder, again the door was opened
and shc darted out The Indians were no
longer passive Bail altar ball sung around
her cars, but none eoached hsr, and n 10 |
neat hsF flying feet aad carried the precious |
burden safely into tae fo~t--CheTieseon fy. |
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