The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1917-01-26
Pioneer Tells of Nez Perez Scourge
Three Whites Joined Indians in Raid on Chief Joseph
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Settlers in Western Montana Summoned as Militia to Auenqe Massacre

their lost horses, but finally rounded
up the balance and pulled out down
Birch Creek. Then we went to their
camp and found the remains of Col
onel Shoup's wagons, which had been
burned. We found all sorts of mer-
chandise scattered around.
Murdered Freighters Found.
Soon found two of the murdered
freighters, who evidently had put up
a hard fight before they died. Later
Colonel Shoup, Dave Woods and Bill
ly Price came along with a pack
horse, some grub and a pick and
shovel. The two men l found were
Jim Hayden and Dan Combs. Dave
Woods found the body of AL Green,
another f%reighter, in the creek, where
he evidently fell when shot. Colonel
Shoup saw magpies flying around up
the creek and found a fourth freight
er's body beside that of a dead mule.
We never discovered his identity.
Hayden's gun was broken and
bent. the barrel still gripped in his
hands. Dan Combs had his mule
and the shot-loaded butt was covered
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that he had done some work with it.
The only freighter unaccounted for
was Al Lyons. We judged that he
had escaped, and this later proved to
be the case. We were just on the
point of leaving when we found a
fifth body of a white man in the
brush about ten feet from where
Green lay. He had died fighting
with an axe, which still was gripped
in his hands and showed that he had
accounted for at least one Indian.
He was a stranger; evidently a man
working his way through with the
outfit. He had $50 IN his watch-fob
pocket.
After burying all of them we start
!, ed back to Salmon. There the China
men were able to talk more and told
2 us about the massacre. 1t seemed
that 60 Nez Perez warriors lode on
to the freight outfit and took them
) to the Indian camp, putting the Chi
namen to work cooking the grub in
, the wagons. The squaws knocked
f the head out of a barrel of whiskey
and emptied dozens of cans of food
and used the cans for cups.
, Cinnamon Hide in Creek.
t The Indians then began to abuse
the Cinnamon. They made one o.
y the Chinks get down on his hands ant
knees and an Indian rode him with
spurs. Then the squaws began tc
get nasty and burned sticks and prod
i ded the f%reighters IN the neck will
them. Finally Dan Combs said: "Tht
next squaw that touches me is goin&
to get this bull whip w the ears
!, Just then one poked him in the cal
0 with a hot coal and he let her hav'
d the loaded butt end of the whip owe
the head. She went down like a bee
o and a general fight started. Haydel
used his gun as a club after shoOtil|
once, and every n ducked for tn
= willows but the Chinks. All tn
u whites but Lyons were soon killed
He got away and finally got Jack t
the stage road at Eagle Rock, IL
" miles from the massacre. The Chin
e amen got into the creek and"'hi
- until night in the water with onl
II {, their noses sticking out. The Indians
) after getting over their drunk, fin
= ished burning the freight outfit an
e left after mutilating the body of Hay
= den.
returned to Junction and over tn
divide to Williams Junction, wher
n I reported to Towards command.
y stayed with him as a scout until How
4 ard was relieved by General Miles o
the Yellowstone. The Nez Perez
we're rounded up by General Miles !
a the Little Bear Paw moun inns !
n October.
e l believe that all of the me
It mentioned in this story are dead e1
cepting Falkner, Pat Dempsey, VIII
n lives in the Flathead, and me.