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fired on, and driven back. Smith testified that when the attack was made, the village contained between 500 and 600 persons and that about two thirds of them were women and children - as has before been stated - and that there were not many warriors among them. He did not think thtat more than fifty or sixty made any resistance to the attack. The Indians fled up the creek, many of them in its bed, which was nearly dry - some of them returning the fire of the troops, as they retreated. The troops continuing to advance, soon broke and scattered themselves along the banks of the creek in a disorderly manner, firing across it from either side at the Indians in its bed or who attenmpted to conceal themselvves under its banks - thus endangering and wounding each other, and killing the Indians of all ages and both sexes without mercy. The slaughter was thus continued for three or four miles up the creek, and the fire did not entirely cease until 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Nearly - if not quite all