Daily public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1892-191?, 1896-10-24

BLUFF tll4ED AisOCAND illAi'
ing. Almost before he was aware OF
il he found himself a prisoner. The
bits of rock had piled up about his feet
until he found it impossible 10 move.
There was nothing new to hope for
as he knew we'll that his tormentors
would never give over the fight until
he was either killed by an arrow or
buried alive.
What the poor fellow thought or
how he felt in the face of this crisis we
may not know.
when an hour had gope by and he
did not return party went to look for
him. In little while we came within
sight of the band of murderers on the
cliff and readily guessed that the con-
ductor was besieged.
Squirting our horses TO a dead run
we charged the band, and when within
rifle range began to pour the lead into
them. For time they withstood the
storm bravely, but never an arrow was
aimed ar us.
IAN Indian would hang over the wall,
two or three of his companions holding
on TO his feet, and send a poisoned ar
row after the conductor. Some of them
were wounded or killed by our bullets,
but that seemed to make them the
more determined to kill the prisoner.
We were by no means anxious 10 APP
proach within reach of their arrows,
but the problem of rescuing the con-
ductor was now becoming serious one.
Even now he might be dead, for we
could neither see nor hear him, so great
was the din and the dust. Finding it
impossible TO drive the red devils away
from their murderous work our COM
mander ordered us to charge, and gal
Looping up 10 within 100 yards of the
bluff we halted, and taking deliberate
aim. let fly a shower of lead that sent n
half dozen Indians to the earth. At that
moment an Indian who had just dis
charged an arrow at the imprisoned
conductor leaped 10 his feet and gave an
eXultant yell. Instantly the whole band,
taking up the cry, disappeared behind
the edge of the cliff. Leaving a MAORI
~ of our force on guard the captain
and I approached toward the point
at which the Indians had been aiming
their arrows. So dense was the cloud of
dust that hung about the hill in the still
morning air. that we were unable, for a
time, to locate the unfortunate man.
To all our calls he made no reply, and
we knew that he was beyond human
aid. When we finally found him he was
still standing upright with the chalk
from the bluff piled above his waist. \
number of arrows were sticking in his
arms and shoulders. Only one small
end of one stood above his coat. 1t had
entered just behind his collar bone,
near the left side of his neck, and pass
ing downward the point of it had
pierced his heart. His head hung upon
his breast while his helpless hands
rested upon the rocks that had been
heaped around him. II would be as i'm.
possible for me to describe the eX.
preston on the dead mans face as il
has been for me to forget it. 1t was
sight TO take out of a white mans heart
any whit of Christian sympathy he may
have harbored there for his red brother.
1t was hard to look upon there, but
when we had carried the poor fellows
body back TO his home and bore il up
to the door of little white cottage, to
the very spot upon which he had kissed
his wife and baby 'good-by,' only few
days before, il was harder still.
"When his gray-haired mother bent
her stiff knees beside the dead man;
when his wife wept over his coffin, and
his blue-eyed baby stood staring at the
cold white face, unable to understand.
there crept into my heart feeling Of
bitter hatred for those red devils which
I am afraid I shall never he able
to overcome" and the sick man
sighed and turned away his face to
hide whatever he had in his eyes
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