Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . MILY IN TENNESSEE. 403 one of the Indians was scalping him, the other fourran into the house. One of Manlys children, outsideof the house, was torn in pieces by their dogs, andafterwards scalped. They now forced the door, and, snatching child, only eight days old, from her, scalpedit and threw it into the fire. An indiscriminatebutchery of the other children followed, until fiveha
Thrilling adventures among the Indians: comprising the most remarkable personal narratives of events in the early Indian wars, as well as of incidents in the recent Indian hostilities in Mexico and Texas . MILY IN TENNESSEE. 403 one of the Indians was scalping him, the other fourran into the house. One of Manlys children, outsideof the house, was torn in pieces by their dogs, andafterwards scalped. They now forced the door, and, snatching child, only eight days old, from her, scalpedit and threw it into the fire. An indiscriminatebutchery of the other children followed, until fivehad been scalped and murdered. Mrs. Manly was the last victim. After shootingher, they scalped her and committed atrocious bar-barities on her body. They then left the house, tak-ing Mrs. Crawley along as prisoner. About four hoursafter the Indians were gone, the neighbours got infor-mation of the murder and collected at the found Mrs. Manly alive and in her perfectsenses. Amidst the carnage, one of Mrs. Crawleyschildren escaped unhurt. During the attack uponthe house, she had the presence of mind to raise aportion of the floor, and throw her child into thecellar. 404 THRILLING The Sioux Indians are the dread of all the nu-merous tribes scattered from Canada to Mexico, andfrom Council Bluffs to the Kockj Mountains. Innumbers, in skill, and in ferocity, they are unequalledby any save the Camanches. The depredations aboutto be described were committed by them during thelate war between the United States and Mexico. On the 16 th of December, 1846, a band of Siouxencountered some Omaha Indians near Council battle ensued, in which the Omahas, being few innumber, were worsted. The Sioux then entered thevillage and butchered sixty women and children. Fourdays previous, a war-party of Sioux had invaded theOmaha country, situated sixty miles from Bellevieu. DEPREDATIONS BY THE SIOUX. 405 They found none there but women and children, thewarriors having gone
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