White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1928-11-02

as the uselessly heroic never appealed
to me. But the Dinwo'd girl was
cooped up inside the devilish circle
and there are certain things man
must always do. She was of my race
and was especially bound to find
her. With the On0ndaga the case was
different. He had fair chance of
winning clear of the terrible mistake,
and urged him to do so. He asked
me If would keep with him, and when
| answered that must find the witch
woman he whooped hoarsely and took
the lead in a line that ran parallel
to the blood-soaked road.
We heard the drums sound the re-
treat and knew that Braddock was
dead or had lost his naughty pride.
We heard the firing down the line as
the enemy attacked Halket's men at
the baggage-train, and from the les
SEEMING volume of the return fire we
knew our losses must be tremendous.
or else the ammunition was failing.
at the time Braddock ordered the
retreat to be sounded only third of
the army was left. We learned that
much afterward. The smoke made 1t
impossible to see clearly, and the indi-
vidual combats between rangers and
savages served to confuse further our
sense of direction. remember the
Onondaga giving mighty grunt as
he crashed his ak through the head
of a Huron who bumped into Us. 1
recall mechanically STAYING in another
red skull with the butt of my loaded
rifle. And then to my surprise both
the Indian and were in the road,
surrounded by the dead and dying,
and those who fred blindly, and more
often killed friend than they wound.
ed a foe.
"These men are fools!" cried the
Onondaga, lodging blow from
musket swung by a mailman. "The
woods! The 5woods''
But now we were in the road 1t was
most difficult to leave 1t without be-
ing shot in the back; yet to remain In
the frenzied crowd meant death with.
out chance to strike back. We were
only short distance above the bag
gage train, and toward 1t we began
making our way. Guns we're squirting
flame from the bushes at our feet
The guards were pointing their mus
kets high and firing thin volleys into
the foliage. Once the retreat was
sounded q panic had seized upon the
survivors, and in stumbling, insane
rush those who could walk made q
last attempt to reach the river.
The bowling of the Indians In.
creased in volume as they realized
the extent of their unexpected
triumph. few hours back the fort
Indians had fatty refused to follow
Beaujeu, and now they we're lusting
like demons to kill, kill, until not an
Englishman was left alive. The say.
ages, observing the mad fear now pos
sessing the army. grew holder and
began to appear from behind the
great trees. from under the grape and
pea-vines, and. through the tall grass.
Cory hands darted out to seize some
dead or dying man land drag him into
the cover. The best equipped and
proudest army England had ever sent
to North America was q rabble OF
crazy men.
Captain Orme of the regulars, and
Captain Stewart of the Virginia rifle
men, aided by another American of.
ticer did not know. came through
the mass bearing heavy figure. II
was General Braddock and he was
putting for breath and was wounded
through the chest.
'Bradd0ck's killed! Braddock's
killed." was the despalring cry raised
as the commander was carried TO the
rear.
"Rally the fools at the ford,
gasped the commander.
"Braddock's Killed." howled a drill
sergeant, although he must have
heard his general speak.
And he danced up and down until
red hands shot out from the bushes
and caught him by the ankles and
ierked him from our sight,
Colonel Washington now had all
the riflenen fighting In the Indian
fashion and only his maneuver saved
the army from being annihilafed AS
II was, four hundred and fifty officers
and men we're dead. slain outright.
and nearly as many more wounded
Out of eighty-nine commissioned of.
ticers sixty-three were killed or
wounded: and not feld.ofIicer mad
escaped unhurt. Lean Virginiuns
/ from behind trees were shouting Ell
couragenient to one another and call
ing for the regulars to fall back OUT
of the way and cross the river II
was the first time our rifemeD and
England's carefully drilled regulars
had gone into battle together and al
ready the cOlonials were discovering
they were better men for forest fight
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