Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-04-22

tleu last, ana the INDIANS Hdu uSSuh ~
build a fire around him.
We had a fight with the Indians, but
finally drove them way from Maloney,
taking two scalps. After Maloney was
released We mounted our horses ana
started to trail this lone bare foot. rms
was Wednesday evening, the next after
the burning of the train. We followed
the track until dark, and went into camp
on the trail. l sent Davis off to the
northwest, and when about six miles
away he found al Indian encampment
so situated he could not crawl into 1t 10
see just what was there. The next morn
ing, as soon as it was light enough 10
see a trail, we took up the track OF ms
lone person again. One man would play
back and forth between the trail we We're
following and the trail that the boot
track was making. My idea was to keep
track of both parties at the same tl1ne'
We We're not strong enough to follow up
both tracks separately. and l mahaseo
it this way, so that l would not weaken
my force.
We trailed all day Thursday. Late
Thursday evening we were satiSTed we
were close to the trailmakers, part!cu-
larly the lady, as there were many places
where l could trail her by the blood from
ner feet, and this without getting off my
horse. The country abounded in the
prickly pear and various species of cac-
tus, which made it very bad to walk over,
even with mOccasins or thin shoes. When
| night came the trail was leading up to
Sagebush Mountain, where there was nc
timber to be seen.
I took the center. with a scout on either
side of me. 1t was near II o'clock when
I heard a faint call near by. | sprang
from my horse. and with a pistol in each
hand I began to look for the person who
had called. There. under a chaparral
bush, I found a young woman, more dead
than alive.
She told me that the emigrants in the
train had all gone to bed on the Tuesday
night before and that she and her sister
had on nothing but their night clothes
and stockings when the massacre oc-
Cured. There was scarcely any skin left
on the bottom of her feet and her clothes
were almost entirely torn off her. 1t was
there and then she told me of this man
Myers; that he had caused their entire
train to be burned. and that all had been
murdered with the exception of herself
her sister and a colored servant.
Miss Mary told me. also, that when her
father was in California he was a Witnes
in a murder case n it was his testl-
mony that hanged the murderer, who was
a brother of Myers. She told me that she
and her sister were taken prisoners by
the Indians and that Myers was with the
Indians at the time. They did not march
them far that night before going into
camp. Inc INDIANS nau cut loiheu ~
stretched the girls fiat on their backs,
driven the sticks over their ankles into
the ground and also over their wrists,
and in this way had made them fast
while the captors lay down and slept.
She succeeded in loosening one of her
) hands during the night and finally freed
herself and her sister. They started to
make their escape by running, but had
not gone far when they found the Indians
were after them. Maggie having outrun
her, Mary had hidden under a bunch OF
: brush, when she heard the Indians cap
2 ture her sister. ,
f We then took off our serapos, wrapped
f up this girl as comfortably as possible
I and took her about a mile and a half to
a. grove of timber. / took her in front OF
me on my horse. When we got TO the
grove we cut boughs and made a bed as
comfortably as we could, left her there
a and started to hunt for her sister, telling
t her to be perfectly easy ana tlat no one
o would modest her.
, Just at daybreak we caught sight OF
! the Indians campfire, only a short DIS
: lance from Sagebush Mountain we teo
our horses and started to crawl into thell
+ camp. Within a few yards OF the CAM
we saw three Indians asleep: also a white
n girl. tied to the roots of a tree only q
short distance from where the Indians
were living. We had craWled within a few
feet of the Indians when we discovered
=. another person in a sitting POSITION 6
+ little to one side. He was in the gulst
of an Indian, with the exception OF ms
d dress.
We were so close onto them now tina
we dare not whisper to one another ant
a everything had to be done by signs. Bu
we thoroughly understood. Each MAJ
fired at his Indian at a given signal an
O not an Indian got to his feet. When W.
= threw onr pistols on the person sitting of
- ,:,.,olf ,r;tb tho intpntiOn of iring OIL
hin, we were surprised to hear him or!
ont in good English: Don't shoot! l an
n a white man."
knew that he was not a prisoner, con
spuuently as soon as we got TO nm W.
took his guns away from him and boun
\ him. We next released the girl and sh'
fold us who the man was. We took he
to where we had left her sister, maxim;
the prisoner walk in front of US, hoping
all the time he would give us some eX
-, cuse to shoot him down before we got t
ia quarters.
- When we got the two young women to
20 eether l started Maloney to headquarter
Gov an ambulance. also sending my re
a mort with him. We had to take the CIR!
~ about five or six miles on horseback Il
!, order to get a place where the ambulanc
"A could get to us, and they were in sue
condition that we were oblSed TO traVe
t. very slowly.
q 1t was late III llt NiN "
oot to Headquarters. | had the Wome
~ taken to my quarters in the camp, and
started to get some fresh water for then
. when 7 met the commander. He aske
~ about my prisoner and for an answer
20 directed him to the young women IN m
is quarters.
- 7 was gone some fifteen or twenty min
;s rtes for the water, and when / came bac
~ T met the colonel. I had been with Colont
af Elliott a little over two years, and thi