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When it got good and light some of them found the tracks of their fleeing victims. None of them took up the trail they were too eager to loot one Indian found a little girl ten or twelve years of age. he took her and said I will take this girl and care for her some day she can get among her kind of people I will give her a chance. now I ask a favor of all you men do not kill her. they all promised him that the girl would not be harmd. they divided every think among them selves. they set fire to the wagons and burnt them. they left the dead white people lay where they had fallen. they all took to the mountains some going north some south and others east. the party that went north took the white girl long after the party had gone about three miles the Indians got into a fight among them selves during the mix up the white girl was killed accidentally. she was left under a big Juniper tree. two days after the massacre there was a few Indians on the Big Mountain that stands north of the outlet of lost