The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-11-24
A NIGHT ATTACK.
An Adventure with Hungry Beasts
In the Rockies.

lar army and who was one Of the rescu-
ing party with my brother, has asked
me to put on record the experience Of
that fearful night undertake the
task with reluctance, because in the
first place there is little or no instruc-
ton or moral weight in such work,
and in the second place recall that In
cident only with a feeling of horror
and an unpleasant beating Of the
heart. However, by noting one or two
peculiar phenomena of nature thing
or two may be set down worth remem-
bering, and by fastening over the
horrible part much of the latter may be
avoided.
The winter of 1862, in which Idaho
and Montana were born, was the most
terrible that has ever been experienced
west of the Rocky mountains for forty
years There has been but one winter
that at all approached it in length and
breadth and awful battling of the ele-
ments. That was the winter of 1857,
when the Indians, made desperate by
hunger, rose up one night in Pitt river
valley, butchercd all the white people
and then helped themselves to the cat
tie.
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ea., ~ nul 4uu n Va ~ .his aay as you
gray and white blotches on the face of
the black mountains fronting the ocean,
where the forest was melted loose and
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me the f,rst ona hrmfrefl miles r.,
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lot of men were vyait;ng there to -
with the exnress 40 nsna, Ther
dronned heh;nd in fr.guer+. and
vhe n NIGHT foil and 7 stilI' kent IN n,
last two ct the Iot. to,cl,ed a ,na,c, t-,a
resinous bark of tamaracls that STOOD
by the cleaning. Qiitterinp trail OF
snow ON the mountain side. and shool,
their hats and shouted in manly admlr-
alton, though they could 90 not a foot;
farther.
You see, l had to cross Camas prairie
that night eighteen miles, while the
SHOWS crust was Ike steel. An honr
of sun on this vast sud rleandno sen Of
,trackless sno9-it Is . great wheat
field now-and you would sink in the
snow 20 your lsnecs.
made IL without a misban or strng-
Gle of any sort: came up 10 tha uonn.
tain station at the ,base Of Mount Idaho
the men buried down therein tha IT.
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Al - y. - "N'NA