Wyoming - its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures (1858) (14784002653)

Identifier: wyominghistory00peck (find matches)
Title: Wyoming : its history, stirring incidents, and romantic adventures
Year: 1858 (1850s)
Authors: Peck, George, 1797-1876
Subjects: Wyoming Massacre, 1778 Wyoming Valley (Pa.) -- History
Publisher: New York : Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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led to the mountain. Analarm was given at the fort, which was not more thana hundred rods from Mr. Slocums house, but the wilysavages escaped with such celerity, and hid themselvesso securely, that no traces of them could be found.That was a gloomy evening in the Slocum family.Mr. Slocum was from home when the descent uponhis peaceful dwelling was made by the ruthless sav-ages. He returned to see the gory corpse of youngKingsley, and to find Mrs. Slocum writhing in agonyon account of poor little Frances, who was in thehands of a band of Indians, whom her phrensied imag-ination pictured out as so many demons just let loosefrom Tophet. Mr. Slocum was petrified with horror;but the deep current of his grief, with characteristicself-control, was not allowed to break over all its natu-ral barriers. Sobs and broken sentences gave charac-ter to the scene around that desolate hearth. Sleepfled from that family circle. The last look at the in-nocent little creature, with outstretched hands, and
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FRANCES SLOCUM. 24B streaming eyes, and disheveled locks, and her shrieksof mamma! mamma! haunted their imaginationslike ghosts of darkness. And then the question, whichno human reason could solve, was, What would be-come of the child? Would she be cruelly murdered?or would she be worn out with fatigue ? or would shesuffer a lingering death from want of comfortable foodand clothing? Any supposition which was at allprobable seemed worse than death. The heart-strick-en family passed a little more than a month in sad-ness and gloom, not then to find rehef to their achinghearts, but to feel another blow from savage hands stillmore terrible. The venerable historian of Wyoming, Hon. CharlesMiner, says: The cup of vengeance was not yet full.December 16th, Mr. Slocum and Isaac Tripp, Esq., hisfather-in-law, an aged man, with Wilham Slocum, ayouth of nineteen or twenty, were feeding cattle froma stack in the meadow, in sight of the fort, when theywere fired upon by Indians. Mr. Slocum was shot