The Forrest City times., 1891-04-24
Meantime Robert Patterson ha,

| le1npleCOn, ne LOOK aQVantage or tnt occasion to crawl beyond the fire-light into some thick bushes. There find | ing he had no use of his right arm which had dragged along on tn. ground, he proceeded to draw it through the straps of his bullet-pouch and then, sPposing himself the only one who had escaped, he got up and started down to the canoe, with tho | intention of pushing 1t out into the | current and pushing down to Point Pleasant, a distance of hundred miles; but ere he reached the little craft, the whOop of an Indian, who already had possession, warned him to hasten in an opposite direction He now began to stagger, feeling very weak, sick and faint, but kept on for a few yards, till hecame to an old log upon which he sunk down, full of gloom and despair. His wounds, strange as It may seem, did not yet pain him; but he felt his life was running away, and he could hear his own blood steady dropping, dropping, on the leaves at his feet.
 "Oh, heaven!' he groaned, as he sat and reflected upon his terrible situa- tlon, "how much better if were deadv
 At this moment he heard the In. dians come down to the beach, get in. to the canoe, and push off down the stream; and when they had foated past him, and all had again become silent, he felt his situation to be more lonely and terrible even than before To man in his weak, exhausted, for. lorn condition, there might be, he found, some consolation in thinking that even living savages were around him.
 "Oh, heaven," he groaned again, "this Is awful awful beyond the ter TOTS of death itself-this living here all alone in this misery! Let me die, oh, heavenly father, let me diel this is more than 1 can bear"
 He got up, with large beads of cold perspiration standing all over his face, and went reeling and staggering back to the can; fire, hoping that he might possibly find one of his companions alive. When he reached the fire. he called out, in as loud a tone as his failing strength would permit; "Ifany body is left alive, for heavens sake, speak! The Indians have gone, and, there ; nothing more to fear!"
 I'm alivel' groaned the voice of James Templeton, as he staggered in from the bushes, a bloody, ghastly, horrible sight.
 And l, tool" said James Wernock, as he crawled forward from an opposite direction, breathing with great diff culty, two balls having passed directly through his body.
 The scoundrels haven't finished me yet'' said David Perry, who came for ward out of the thicket, the least hurt of the four,
 These four men looked at each other by the gloomy light of that dying fire. Tears started down their weather-browned cheeks-their feel ings for the moment were too deep for utterance
 Il thank heaven that I'm not the only living man, as feared was?" said Patterson, at length; flor though l don't expect to live great while. it's something to hope may have friend by me who will '"
 You'll all outlive me, boys, groan- ed Wernock, flor I'm going fast!"
 Come, come, don't talk this wavl" chimed in Perry, flor you give me the horrors. Keep up your courage and never say die, and we'll all get through yet. and live to tell our grandchildren the story. An, poor McNutt!" he add ed, as his eye fell upon the gory corpse of that individual; 1t is all over with him, and with Greer and Mitchell too, 1 fear"
 With Greer, perhaps, but not with mel said Mitchell at this moment making his appearance. with his rife Tn his hand, the only man of the seven that had been left unharmed, and the only rife of the seven that had been saved from the Indians. T've been following the tiends for shot," he added, but didn't get near enough to feel sure of my mark, and so con cluded not to waste my powder not knowing how much might need it yet
 These hvo men now consulted to- gether, as to what was best to be done under the circumstances They final ly decided to attempt to reach the set dement's above them by slow marches. They waited where they were till day light, and busied themselves mean time in dressing each others wounds as we'll as they could II d gathering up and dividing some provisions that the Indians had carelessly scattered around the fire. Patterson had his broken arm rudely dressed by placing | ..i. |. lightning, outside of his hunting shirt, and binding the whole tightly toget her with string; and this may be taken as fair specimen of all the rest
 When they all got ready to start tho next morning, Wernock discovered that he could not stand upon his feet.
 "Go on and leave mo boys" he said, with the courageous resignation of hero; Il can't live anyhow, and there's no use of your cumbering your- selves with me. Go on and saveyo selves and tell my friends the fate of poor Jim"
 See here old fellow don't talk in this, way" said Perry, taking hold of his arm: you're worth dozen dead men yet, Come, get up now and I'll carry you on my back"
 Wernock made another attempt to rise, but fell back with groan, and said, "Its no use boys-Im a dying man-and you must leave me to my self, and save your own lives if you can Just fill up the old kettle with water, and leave 1t within reach and that's the last favour I'll ever ask of you"
 They all protested, but he insisted: and finding at length there was no oth-