An Oath of Vengeance.

Manawatu Herald, 21 November 1896, Page 3

An Oath of Vengeance.

I deipateh from San Franoiso tepotto that » remarkable exploit haf been performed by 2 trappers named Hiram Good and Sandy Young, who killed the entire remnant of the Mill Creek tribe of Indl*ni numbering 202 man and women* Young and Good had been friendi from boyhood, and lived in the forest. On returning from their work one night, a few months Ego, fthey found that Good's wife had been murdered, and their house partially burned. They learned that the Indians were the culprits. $hey found the. tracks of the chief of the Mill Greek Indians, who had 6 toes OB eaoh foot, and could thus be identified. Good and Young swore jfangeance, and for -several weeks killed any individual members of the tribe whom they came upon. Finally, in August* they found the entire tribe encamped in a natural basin surrounded by walls of rock, the only entrance being the bed of a narrow stream. The men waited ■Bill the Indians had gone to sleep after a drinking debauch, and then •rift to the stream and built a btnioftde of rocki aerois itf passage,

and took up a position behind the barricade with two heavy repeating rifles and two revolvers of the same calibre, and 1,000 rounds of am- | munition. Young loaded the weapons and handed them to Good to fire. ; Presently a chief arose and went to the camp fire, wheroupon Good shot him through the heart. The Indiana, awakened by the seporfc, sprang to their feet, bewildered. Good kept up a continuous fire, every shot proving fatal. Many of the Indians ran to the creek, only to be met by the bullets. Men and women alike were panic-stricken, and one after ■another were shot dead by the invisible foe, whom they were quite unable to locate. The firing continued for half an hour. When there seemed to be no more Indians alive, the two trappers, each with revolvers in their hands entered the camp, to satisfy themselves that none were living. They found that all the Indians had been killed except a boy, 6 years of age, whom they brought with them to San Francisco. Young and Good have now disappeared, and it is thought they have gone to Australia for fear of the legal results of; their massacre.