The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1898-02-17

with their whoops, while the white:
replied with shouts and cheers. A
one time the Indians ceased firms
and drew back among the trees ant
underground, where, by the noise
they made, they seemed to be holdine
a 'pow-wow" or lncantation to pro
cure victory; but the keen and fear
less Seth Wyman crept up among the
bushes, shot the chief conjuror, an
broke up the meeting. About the
middle OF the afteroon young Frye
received mortal wound. Unable tC
fight any longer, he lay in his blooG
praying from time to time for his
comrades IN faint but audible voice
Solomon Reyes. of Billerica, receiv
ed two wounds, but fought on till q
third shot struck him. He then crawl
ed up to Wyman in the heat of the
fight and told him that he was dead
man, but that the Indians should not
get his scalp if he could help it
Creeping along the sandy edge OF
the pond he chanced to find strand
ed canoe, pushed it afioat, rolled him
self into it, and drifted away before
| the wind
Soon after sunset the Indians drew
off and left the field to their enemies,
| living and dead, not even stopping to
scalp the fallen-a remarkable proof
OF the completeness of their discom-
future Exhausted with fatigue and
hunger-for, having lost their packs
IN the morning, they had DO food
the surviving white men explored the
scene of the fight Jacob Farrar Law
gasping his last by the edge of the
water Robert Usher and Lieutenant
Robbins were unable to move. OF
the thirty four men, Dine had escaped
without serious injury, eleven were
badly wounded, and the rest were
dead or dying, except the coward
who had run off. About midnight.
when the moon was up. snch as had
strength to walk left the ground.
Robbins, as he lay helpless, asked
one of them to load his gun, saying
The Indians will come in the morn
ing to scalp me and I'll kill another
of 'em if | can" They loaded the
gun and left him.
To make ones way even by dav-
light through the snares and pitfalls
of a New England forest is often q
difficult task; it was trebly so in the
gloom of night and over r-shadowing
boughs, among the fallen trees and
the snarl of underbrush. Any but
the most skillful woodsman wonld
infallibly have lost their way The
Indians. sink of fighting, did not
molest them. After struggling on
for mile or more, Farwell, Frye, and
two other wounded men, Josiah Jones
and Elhazor Davis, could go no
further and, with their consent, the
others left them with a promise f.
send them help AS soon as they should
reach the fort, In the morning the
men divided into small parties, the
better to elude pursuit. One of these
parties was tracked for some time by
the Indians, and Elias Barron, be-
coming separated from his compan-
ions, was never heard Of. though the
case of mis- gun was afterward found
by the bank of the little river Ossipee.
Eleven of the number at length
reached the fort and to their amaze
meni found nobody there The run
away. Hassell, had reached it many
hours before them. and to excuse his
flight told SO frightful story of the
fate of his comrades that his hearers
were seized with a panic, shamefully
abandoned their post and set out for
The settlements, leaving writing on
piece of birch bark to the effect that
all the rest were killed. They hid
left supply of bread and pork, and
while the famished eleven rested and
refreshed themselves they were joined
by Solomon Keys, the man who. after
being thrice wounded, bad fioated
away in canoe from the place of the
fight. After drifting III a southerly
direction for a considerable distance
the wind blew him ashore, when
spurred by necessity and feeling him.
self,as he said. wonderfully strength
ened," he succeeded IN reaching the
fort
Meanwhile Frye, Farwell. and theil
two wounded companions, Davis and
Jones, after waiting vainly for the
expected help, found strength to
struggle on again, till the chaplain
stopped, lay down, and begged the
others keep on their way, at the same
time charging Davis, should he ever
rerch home, to tell his father that
'he expected in few hours to be il
eternity, and was not afraid to die
They left him, and, says the old mar
rative, "he has not been heard oi
| since
Farwell died of exhaustion. The
remaining two lost their way and be
came separated. after wandering
eleven days, Davis reached the fort a
Lake Ossipee, and finding food there
came into Berwick on he 2Sth. Jone:
after fourteen days in the woods. ar
rived half dead at the village of Bid
deford.
Some of the elaven who had frs
reached the fort, together with Reyes
who joined them there, came int
Dunstable during the night of th'
18th, and the rest followed one or TIVE
days later. Ensign Wyman. who wa
now the OILY officer left alive, anC
who had borne himself throughou
with the utmost intrepidity, decision
aud good sense, reached the sam,
place. along with three other men
on the 18th
The runaway, Hassell, and th
guard at the fort, whom he had in
fecred with his terror, had lost n,
time III making their way back t.
Dunstable, which they seem to hav
reached on the evening OF the 11th
Horsemen were sent in haste to carr,
the doleful news to Boston, on whicl
the governor sent orders 10 Colone
Tying, of the militia, who was then a
= Dunstable. to gather men IN the borde
. towns, march with all speed to tn
: place of the fight. succor the Wounds
: if they were still alive, AMI attack tn
, Indians if he could find them Tyn
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