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Show 164 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS his right breast, one seared his lip under his nose, and still another grazed his forehead. He placed his hat over his breast where he was shot and shouted " Help murder, ' ' and partly fell down the steps into the dug-out where he and his family lived. Glenwood ha< J only been settled the previous year and only a very few houses had as yet been built. Staley's wife got out of bed and ran down to the house of Peter Allen, who lived across the block, and gave the alarm, say-ing that her husband had been shot, and that her two little girls were in bed and would surely be killed. Isaac Allen, a mere boy, grabbed a gun and ran up through the lot into the dugout. He seized the two little girls, one in each arm, and ran with them, the bullets flying all around him. At the first shot, Solomon Case, who lived just across the road cried out " Indians," he got his gun from above the door, and opened the door to look out, when Thomas Goff, his step- son, fourteen years old, went outside in time to see Staley fall, as he sup-posed, into the cellar, and also to see his wife run down to Aliens. An Indian called out, " Sol Case, shoot him" when a volley from the Indians on the hill was fired at the boy Goff, bullets hitting all around him. The boy ran back into the house, opened the back or west door which had no hinges, but was held in place with pegs, laid it down on the floor, ran out and down to main street, where he met some men, who saw an Indian on the hill squat down and shoot at some one. Mrs. Case was in bed with a baby girl two days old, and the nurse ( Mrs. Charlotte Beal) picked up the baby and ran down through a patch of corn. Mrs. Case said to her husband " If you don't take me down town I will get up and run." Mr. |