History of Nevada; . im, ])urty good. On the evening of the massacre, the owner of thestation, J. O. Williams, was camping a couple ofmiles further up the river, and thus escaped the fateof his brothers. The next morning he returned, and finding hisplace a smouldering ruin, around which laj- the bodiesof his murdered kinsmen, he started for VirginiaCity. Mr. Davis, with three other men, remained forseveral days at his place alter the event before theyknew what had transpired. When the news finallycame to them, however, they started with theireftects for Dayton, reaching Hucklands station thesa
History of Nevada; . im, ])urty good. On the evening of the massacre, the owner of thestation, J. O. Williams, was camping a couple ofmiles further up the river, and thus escaped the fateof his brothers. The next morning he returned, and finding hisplace a smouldering ruin, around which laj- the bodiesof his murdered kinsmen, he started for VirginiaCity. Mr. Davis, with three other men, remained forseveral days at his place alter the event before theyknew what had transpired. When the news finallycame to them, however, they started with theireftects for Dayton, reaching Hucklands station thesame evening—May 9th—that the Ormsby commandarrived there, on its way to chastise the Indians. DEMAND FOK VENGEANCE. The news brought hy Williams to Dajton, SilverOity, and Virginia created an intense excitement,and couriers soon carried it, with added horrors, toall the outljing towns. Scattered over the wholecountrj- were little squads of j)rospectt)rs and ranch-ers, whose isolated positions rendorwd them an easy. INDIANS, AND THEIR WARS IN NEVADA. 153 proy to prowling bands of Miivagos. Such woro tobe warned; and many a wilil rido was taken byhoi-semon over secret mountain and valley trails toboar the notes of danger to a friend. In the wholecountry there was but one voice, and that went upfrom the whole people, for a swift and blood}- retal-iation—one that should strike terror to the heart ofthe Pah-Ute, and leave his country a tcnantlesswaste. Detachments were organized for that pur-pose at Genoa, Carson, Silver and Virginia Cities;and on the ninth of May, 1860, they moved fromthe latter place to Buckland Station, on the CarsonRiver, &h route for the scene of the late the tenth they arrived at Williams Station, andburied three of the victims, and took a vote as towhether they should return or continue their marchinto the enemys countrj. The vote was unanimousfor the advance, and they proceeded to the TruckeeRiver, and camped on the night of the eleventh ofM
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