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Show INDIAN DEPREDATIONS 165 Case wrapped a quilt round her, and with the cor-ners over his shoulders carried her on his back down to the main part of the town. The Indians kept up a constant fire from the rocks on the hill and some of the brethren went up near the hill and took shelter behind a house. Bishop Wareham who had a Sharp's rifle, re-marked : ' * there sits a beggar on a rock, ' ' and hand-ed his gun to George Pectol, who crawled out to a wagon box, took rest and fired ; at the crack of the gun the Indian fell backwards off the rock. Another Indian said later that the shot fired by Pectol took the Indian's jaw off. The people at Glenwood started a man with an express for Salina, but he was headed off a short dis-tance north of town. Then Samuel Short was sent to Richfield and got through. When returning a com-pany of men went with him to Glenwood. In Eichfield the drum beat about nine o'clock a. m. Those out on picket duty came in, and as they had their guns, they were ordered to get horses as quickly as possible and go to Salina, as the Indians wrere moving in that direction. Peter Gottfredson, one of them writes : There were ten of us and we were ordered to get through, if we had to fight our way. When at Cedar Ridge some Indians were seen on the east side of the river moving north, and when nearing the Willow Bend, Indians were seen passing a bunch of brush going toward the river ; the road at this place passed along the river bank on the west side. No doubt, if we had followed the road, we would have been shot at but we circled up toward the west mountains, out of gun reach and came back into the road about a half mile north of the bend. There |
