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Show 142 INDIAN DEPREDATIONS IIH li wagon box at one end of the shanty. When the In-dians came to the shanty they poked their guns through the willow wall and fired, shooting Mr. Given in the region of the heart and Mrs. Given in the right cheek. Their son, John, aged nineteen, jumped up, saying, " You d d sons of B s." when an Indian shot him down before he could reach the door. These three were shot before the two young men left the cabin. Leah, without dressing, grabbed his gun and ran out, hiding in the willows, and Brown, who slipped on his clothing, ran out at the same time. An Indian fired at them, the ball passing between them, striking the ground about two rods ahead of them. Browne ran to the creek and waded down it, the water being up to his arm-pits and very cold. When down the creek some dis-tance he got out and went down the side hill about six miles to where Dr. Joseph S. Wing and five other families from Fairview had located and reported what had happened. They all left and went to Fair-view. When they came to the Given cabin they found T. he three grown persons lying dead on the floor of the hut with the feathers of the feather bed scattered over them, and also the three young girls, Mary, aged nine, Annie, five, and Martha, three years old, in the wagon box killed. Oscar Barton, one of the rescuers from Mount Pleasant, says : ' ' On the morning of the killing, between daylight and sunrise, Andrew Larson of Mount Pleasant who had camped during the night with the Wing family passed the Given place on the road, and as he passed he lieard calves bawling in the corral. Thinking that the people had not yet arisen, he passed on, but when he reached the herd house, about where In- |
