Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1890-03-07

break occurred carlyin the forenoon. just
us planned, aud the Colonel was the first
victim. He was shot down by some OF
the native officers OF the cavalry. and Inc
hid no sooner fallen than they turned
upon their English Captain. Strogan WAS
the third man killed lie was shot in
front of his own bungalow, as was also
another civil officer VINO was with him
The anxiety Of the mutincrrs to secure
plumber permitted the women and chill
drcn to ind al place of safety, and all
eventually escaped to bella, and from
thence to Cawnpoor. 1t was toward even
ing OF Tuesday before II squad set out in
search of us. Our servants were anxious
to see us murdered, for the sake of the
''loo;' to be divided. About dark, while
We were wondering If one Of us had not
better go out after information, we heard
Il voice callinu us. and recognized it as
.''at of my sycc or groom. We climbed
out OF our fort and went to the edge Of
the thickct aud answered him, and he
soon appeared. Matters had changed.
The slave had exchanged places with the
master. Tho fellow was rs cool and i'm
pudent as You pleased. When we asked
promptly acknowledged to having stolen
mine, AMI further informed m. that
ought 10 be very thankful that hc h,d no:
,takcu my life as we'll. lie informed us of
all that had occurred at the barracks, and
stated that party had come out To- make
terms with us. Being that we were
Americans, and hal had nothing to do
with their oppression, they did not thirst
! for our blood. Ii we would surrender
everything we had we could 20 where VIC
pleased. If not they would kill us and
take what they wanted
We very soon sent the fellow away
with an answer. If we escaped from
this gang it wouid be- to fall into the
hands of another We h)uld be dc-
fcncclcss and pcnnilcss, and what could
we do! We told him we had decided to
/ fight it out, and rs soon az he disap-
/ paarcd we returned to the fort The
two other members of the party were
Henry Wilds and George Fisher We
had then been in India together for II
/ year, and had stool back to back in
many tight places. Wilis was typical
, Yankee, good -natur2l but courageous.
anil his long arms had the strength Of
horses leg. The thickct WAS so dense
! thrt our fort could not be seen unless one
/ penetrated it few yards. The natives
simply supposed that we were lying close
IN the centre OF the Jungle, and haif an
hoar after the groom left us about thirty
mu>&ciS began Blazing away at our pos:
ton. SON" nj the balls whisticd over
us, others entered the earth, and now and
then one struck the heavy blocks of
stone with dull ring. We took turns
us sentinel, while the other two silent.
and soon after midnight all was quiet.
II was 10 o'clock next morning before
wc were troubled again. Then the
members of the old gang seemed to have
been added to, and fifty or more m,lskcts
kept up pretty steady fire until 3
o'clock in the Afternoon. BY this time
we ought to have been all shot to pieces,
us tho bullets had cut through every foot
of the Jungle. The natives believed it
WIS time to advance and see. We could
locate them by their lortl talk and con.
slant discussions, and when we found
thai all had gathered ON the eastern
edge OF tho thickct and were about
W tbNeuNC, W. tllllltltu out, crtDt
forward, and lay down behind a bio
block Of stone To receive them They
entered the thickct rs II mob would have
done, and the first three men sighted
were dropped i'll their tracks. This
caused II panic, and they withdrew, and
aside from Il few stray shots fired to let
us know that we were still bc,icgcd, we
we're not annoyed until next morning.
Then we heard great hurrah, and after
little were given the information that
they had brought down the two pieces of
artillery from the station to shell us ont.
They were very slow in getting to work,
and when they began firing it WAS plain
enough that they knew nothing about
artillery On the first Iour shells fired
all went too high and burst far beyond
us. The fifth one b:rst short and threw
the dirt over omr walls. Then we de.
ci,icd to cool their ardor bit. We
climbed over the walls, got out OF the
line of fire, and crept to the edge OF the
thickct. There we saw mob of over a
hundred natives with the two guns
planted within pistol shot. One OF
them had become disabled by ramminr
the ball down before the cartridge, and
the other was about to be fired. We So
icctcd three of the Sunners, fired togeth-
or, anil they fell dead on the grass. Be-
fore the gang could get out of range we
killed two more and wounded
II third. Then Wilds ran forward
under cover OF our rifles and
spiked both pieces 10y driving
some nails which he happened to have
i'll his pocket, into the vents Seeing IL
move to flank us we returned to orr
shelter, and all the rest OF that day and
all night were left in peace. On the
third day there were but twenty natives
in the besicging force, and they .;:e.!
into the thickct only ut long intervals.
On the fourth day this force was re-
duced 10 ten. Al noon Wilds made =
scout and found them eating dinner, and
we crcpt up and killed one and worndci
two, and consequently raised the siege.
We could have gone away now ma we