Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-07-22

0eGsAM 1O9 - - arms aAd toppae4
W.: cav 0oa Go0GA thea turn ard
run. posshg haek over thelr shoulAees
vtlh syes I'm ~ horror. threw up
NJ rsAo ana Ayo1s sysaAg bsok. racing
for . tree. loading - run. Men
wsss sves7whsrs. frightened. sorsana-
ing mob. I cav oH3osrs strike them
with tAsar swords. ,cursing them -
towards. But nothing could stop the
panic: they fought 70 get away, they
struck With clinched fists. they bat
tarsd . paAh for themselves with
dubbed muskets; they became nends
from terror. every ssmblance of mon
lost. God! may ! never SEQ such .
sight again! Ny hand tremblss - I
write Of 1t.
Into that tsrrursts4ckeu, fleeing mob
Tie naked warr1ors came. hacking With
tonaahawks. slashing With knives, bat
terins with dubbed guns. The snow
Nas rcd with blood. covered With dead
bodies. Il vas massacre. I know not
how spt out Of It, but fought hack
frum Hos 70 tses, firing ~ halted.
loading - I ran. There were others
With ne, ooobAsadsd fellows. and Nc
hssd ths painted demons back until
. hundred OF u. a. more. gained the
opening b. the river. whore the regu
larv and artillssy wsrA hut the saw
age hordes. in1urisGsd b victory.
drunk With slaughter. were at our very
hs>as. Thsy nnsd the sdys Of the
weeds anA poured h deadly vel1syA
Thsrs vas 70 sesnd now. no yslhns-
ealy ~ ioeessaat saksle q Arsarms.
. thsy oropt iron log 70 nc, and
trss to t1oa, s1owly drawing s3oosr.
They nled o. to slthr 90 aa4
heuned - n, the river alone pyo4oct-
fne CIR reer. Throogh - elosds q
smoke Ne oaasht slinpses OF tbsiT
fitting figures, distorted. horrible. d
faces striped black and red. Of waving
feasAess, and brunAishing arms. Never
bsfore q since have I sosa ln11Ans
Ant - thsy IA that day-rushtng -
the chaxpA Isaping straight at -
through IL smoke. and 0r1nS with
deadly ain INTO our very faces. They
shot ~ down With no ssse, no csssa-
ton, 10 tine IA Witch TO breathe
Tvice they took the guns. warming
foeward WITH . f,eree rush that nuns
ia back. and crueheA tho gunns.v une
der foot, But thsy vese in the open
nov. and ~ ooah zee: With bayoasts
and cluhhed rs0es ~ eharsed home,
driyins theen haok b ~ woods. There
th~v held m. vflle from eSpgy hollow
ana rr,ss match. every tres snA fallen
lor their rinss spat nrs. Ths hands
# my svu new Of. and I picked m
another: va, out Of powder and ball
aud tool than from dead BODY. The
dead LAP svsryvhsrs. alone, in hsaps;i
cr1ea Of the wounded rose above tAs
ain We chareed over the bodies.
erunohine them undsr foot. seakine
TO reach our invisible foee. Thay
would not stand. would not msst W.
Helpleas pleading. dyinG. confused by
many orders. We fell back. vt still
rst.i,aa line Ana frontad hat b3as-
inr wood Frishtaned. panic-stxScksn
men vere evervvhere. running and
.hys.hinr IN tarror seaktnx vaanly Ter
some man. Of sacape from the sayage
GORDON. indians crept forward under
ma snoke to scalp ana mutilass the
laad 90 AyinG. HosUos from tho q.
tillsry ana eta4. Dreaking loose,
eharssA v1ldly ahout. trampang living
and dead alike upAor their feet Won
an. camp follower. vsre wedged In
the mob. their shr1ll screams pisrcfng
the mad uproar. Only the regulars
stood intact. 4 thin blue line, with
here and there among them = few MI
litiamen who kent their heads. About
the xuns. not q dozen powder grimed
artillerymen remained. Not an o1lcer
Of the battery vas left: not one OF the
rsxulsrs unwounded.
heard st. Clair storminx ND and
down behind u. swearing and shout.
ing orders in his hish. cracked voice,
vet took no time to glance toward him.
The smoke settled down upon az In
a cloud. 10 fought blindly. In the dark,
hardly certain but we stood alone.
was beside Butler whom he was struck
and helped dr.x him aside out Of the
rout Then / saw st. Clair, and, a.
stoned a second. staring into his face
10 be sure OF his identity, an ofIicel
rushed up through the smoke cloud
knocking me aside. everything forgot
ten but his urgent message.
General st. Chair" he cried, "wa
must get out of here. sir. NY mel
| cannot stand nye minutes longer. II
| that line breaks II viii cost every life