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Show INDIAN DEPKEDATIONS 175 leveled their guns on us and fired. They wounded one of the horses which died as soon as we stopped at Chas. Whitlock's place at Ephraim. As soon as they leveled their guns on us, Lady Snow placed her head in her lap, which position she held until we reached town. Our team was a pair of trained racing horses, and as soon as the Indians raised their guns on us the teams was on full speed. Chief Yene-woods was the only one who overtook us, he was on the left ( West) side of the road and leveled his pistol on me within three feet or less, where upon I leaped over the dash- board onto the tongue where I sat for a distance of a mile or more, during which he emptied his pistol at us and also shot several ar-rows at us, none of which took effect, until we reach-ed a swale with a ditch in the bottom where the team slacked speed. Then an arrow took effect under Whitlock's left shoulder on a slant toward the back, six inches deep. On hearing him groan, I jumped back into the seat and took the lines and whip saying, " You are hit with an arrow; shall I pull it out." He answered, " Yes, if you can." I did so, when we had reached a point where Soren Sorensen now lives at Ephraim. The swale referred to is the one in Peter Graves ' s land, where the old county road used to be. On account of the excitement I can not remember if the arrow was hard to pull out of his shoulder. However, I got it out, but Brother Whit-lock still feels the effect of the wound, so he informed me the last time I saw him. The Indians followed us to the center of the block north of Niels Thompson's present home, where they turned west into the field and killed Morten Pedersen Kuhre, his wife and sister in law, |
