years of age, was herding sheep about a mile from the house when he was killed.  They shot him and then cut his throat.  We continued to travel until it became too dark to discern our way, and then sat down at the foot of a tree and stayed until daylight.  We then started again, not knowing where we were going, but hoping to strike some house.  There was two feet of snow on the ground and our progress was slow and tedious.  Finally we arrived at Lost river bridge about 2 o’clock Saturday afternoon.  Here we learned for the first time that there had been a fight between the soldiers and Indians.  If the settlers had been warned in time not one white person would have been killed, as we all had arms and ammunition sufficient to defend themselves successfully.”

The Brotherton Family was not killed until the next day.  They lived eight miles south of the Bodys, and like the latter were attending to their duties about the ranch.  A twelve-year-old boy, Charley Brotherton, while the Indians were killing the hired man, cut one of the horses loose from the wagon and escaped to the house, where he built a pen of sacks of flour in the center of the floor to protect his mother and the little children and with a rifle held the savages at bay for three days, or until relieved by volunteers.  The house, a two-story box affair, was literally riddled with bullets and how the boy escaped being shot is a mystery.  The other settlers, seventeen in all, were similarly murdered.  Henry Miller, who had befriended the Indians, was murdered under conditions of peculiar atrocity, for the reason, it was supposed, that he had failed to notify the Indians of the movements of the soldiers as he had promised.

During all these three days of murder and horror, Captain Jackson made no attempt to protect the settlers, but remained forted up at the cabin on Lost river.  As soon as the news reached Linkville, now Klamath Falls, Captain O. C. Applegate organized a company of settlers and friendly Indians to protect what was left of the settlement.  Captain Ivan D. Applegate also exerted himself in saving the settlers, and did brave work, but there were women and children to protect and days elapsed before an effective force could be gathered to meet the Indians.  Meantime news had reached Jackson county and Captain Kelley hastily organized a force of a hundred men and by riding night and day reached the scene of the massacre.  It was his company that relieved the besieged Brothertons, defended by the brave boy.

In the meantime the Indians had retreated to the lava beds and bade defiance to the soldiers.  General Wheaton, commanding the district of the Lakes, ordered the concentration of troops from Camps Warner and Bidwell, while General Canby sent the forces under Colonel John Green and Major Mason from Ft.  Vancouver to join the command under General Wheaton.  As soon as the settlers could fort up for mutual protection, the entire forces of regulars and volunteers were concentrated