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two children, and carrying her baby in her arms. As she came near the edge of the woods, on her return, she heard the shouts of the Indians, who had surrounded the house, and at once started in flight to the blockhouse. The Indians fired the cabin, and finding it empty, entered the woods in search of the family; and at one time came so close to them that Mrs. Biggs heard their voices and their footsteps. While in imminent danger of discovery, the baby began to cry, and Bhe was unable to quiet it in any way but by holding her shawl over its mouth. When the Indians had gone out of hearing she found to her horror that the baby was smothered to death. For some minutes she was overcome by grief, but the necessity of saving the living nerved her to further effort, and, carrying her dead child in her arms, she slowly and painfully pursued her way through the woods with the two children until they arrived at the blockhouse, about daylight.Others were even more fortunate in iheir escape. Ben Yount, who lived east of the settlement, heard the shooting in the afternoon, and mount-d«*y, and probably could not be overtaken, the party returned to Pigeon Roost.In recent years a curious error has become prevalent, of writing the name of this stream ” Muscatatack, ” though this form was unknown in earlier times. It is a Delaware word, compounded of mosch-ach geu, which means “ clear, ” “not turbid, ” and hit-tuk, which as a terminal, in composition, means “a stream,'’ and is usually applied to small and swift rivers. The proper Indian name ia Moschach-hit-tuk—the ”ch” sounded as in German—which may be translated “Clear river.” There is no foundation for the translation “ Pond river, ” which is commonly given for the name.On their return the militia gathered all the human remains they could And, and buried them on the hill opposite the Collings’s house. On the next, day September 6. they were reinforced by a company of sixty volunteers from Jeffersonville, under Captain McFarland, and 350 volunteers from Kentucky. The united forces decided on a retaliatory raid on the Delaware towns on White river, but owing to the disputes over the organization, there ba-
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Jeffersonville Daily Reflector
Jeffersonville, Indiana, US
Thu, Sep 30, 1909
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