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I MU AN ATROCITIES.TIip ^nd Pate of ihe Ofrmgln I'amlljr-Thi* •‘lory mm Told by Onr of die Voting I.milt's Jusl Mrnntd from llir MVRff*.From a correspondent of the Kansas (Tty Time*. who hurt pint arrived bore from thf Cheyenne A gone v, your enrre upondcfit ha* loomed the* following concerning tlio I wo OcrmMn girl*. recently restored fron^ captivity with Uio Cheyenne tribo:Culliertne. Ihr oilier, Kiiin suffered iin-lotd cruelties from the demon* who have hud her In Ihelr possession, told the following story •-My lather’* family consisted of self, Lydia 0.,Ids wife, and sevenShehim-children* Rebecca, aged 21 ; Rtrplten, lH; Jo.lmntm, 15; myself, I?; Bonilla, 11; Julia,left our old home7. nnd Niiuey, 5. We la Morgantown, Fannin County, (lit., about five yi-itrs ago, and removed to Ifowull County, Mo. From there we went to Kaunas, and, when overtaken by the Indians, were going to Colorado for my sister Johanna's health.•' Wc encamped on the bunks of the Smoky Hill Hlvcr, in Ceutral Kansas, about fourteen miles Irom the track of tic Kansas Pacific Railroad, nnd within thirty milesot Fort Wallace.on Thursday night, Sept 10, IMM, The next morning I wont down the river’s hank to drive up the entile and, when returning, heard shots and yells. Uunuing toward the wagon 1 saw my poor father shot through the luu*k nnd my mother tomahawked by a big Indian. They were both sculped while yet living. An old squaw ran up nnd stuck nn ax into father's head, and left It them. I to beef a seized an ax and attempted to defend herself. She was woon overpowered and knoeked down In-scn.-ihle. While lying on the ground, covered with blood, she was mndo the victim of the mod horrible outrage*, after which the Indians tore her clothes off, and covered her up with bed-clothes from the wagon. These were set lire to, and niv darling sister was burned to death. Stephen was killed next. Ids scaln being taken. Sister Johanna nnd myself were placed side by side, and they came up to iu*noel us and «eo wldcli one Huy should kill. The choice fell on poor .In-lianna, and she was shot through the head.Tving us—Sophia, Julia, Nancy nnd myself—they hurried us across the prairies, going south. Mv clothes were tornabout Am on a run yards of!town poll Federal t the gftw could nut of the bn! llle* rrae such I cnmc tooThoy ffto pick a not early follow U| diately i Hie diem sin-*, who could nol Into etish ment. I which, of as a spec wounded nobody prosecuti doned.DBF.Fhixk rectified spoonful pound ni littrul l'r Wash sulphurh myrrh, oon in c»;soap, tlu—Pacific Wnou wheat, i Pick and steamer, cover it soft, tliei r thhing again in« stove wli to taste, dcr. To cream, Sr.ixjp one*hnlf a poundlt; fresh yet to make cube. II light. X irether. t
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The Perrysburg Journal
Perrysburg, Ohio, US
Fri, Mar 26, 1875
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