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MASSACRES OF INDIANS BY WIITES.

continned knocking down one after another until he counted fourteen that he had killed with his own hands. ITe now handed the instrument to one of his fellow-murderers, saying: arm fails me. Go on in the saine way. I think I have My donc pretty well In another house, where mostly women and children were confined, Judith, a remarkably pious aged widow, was the first victim rid deed they retreated to a sSmall distanee from the slaughter houses; but, after awhile, returning again to view the dead bodies, and finding mangled, attempting to raise himself from the floor, they renewed their blows upon liim that he never rose again. Thus ninety-six persons magnified the name of the Lord by patiently mecting sons and thirty-four children. Many of them were born of Christian parents in the society, and were among those who in the year 1763 wero taken nnder the proteetion of the Tenn sylvania Government at the time of the riots of the Paxton Boys. miraculonsly escaped from this massacrc. scalped and thrown down for dead. Rccovering himself, he looked around; but, with great presenec of mind, lay down again quickly, feigning death. In a few moments he saw the murdercrs return, and again bury their hatchets in the head of Abel, who was After they had finished the hor- one of then (Abel), although sealped and. so a cruel death. Sixty-two were grown per- Two boys, about fonrteen ycars of age, almost Onc of them was attempting to rise, though sealped and terribly mangled. As soon as it was dark, Thomas erept over the dead bodies and escaped to the woods, where he hid himself till night The othcr lad, who was confined in the honse with the women, contrived unnoticed to slip through a trap-door into the cellar, where he lay conccaled through the day, the blood all the while running down through the floor in streams. At dark he escaped through a small window and crept to the woods, whero he encountered Thomas, aud the two made their way togeth cr, after incredible hardships, to Sandusky. To describe the

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