PAGE SIX : THE DALLAS POST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1938
: EXCERPTS FROM
THE HISTORY
OF LUZERNE COUNTY
By H. C. BRADSBY
Qaxzizhe \Lincoln, Newspaper: FeaturessIic;
: TN ______OUR PUZZLE CORNER ~T
ROGDNE
GOT SO INTERESTED IN
(Readers will enjoy Mr. Bradsby’s quaint,
3 paranthetical remarks more if they keep in THE GAME of POOL HE 2
mind that he was writing this history of a HIN mt te oF
; Luzerne County forty-five years ago, and ee Blecay WAS ALMOST Demisyic ne 7
refers to conditions as he knew them, not : CRUSHED BY A HORSE: 7% i i ] 2 DRAWN HIS PAL... 2°
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as they are in 1938.) —EDITOR ON MGM *STABLEMATES
SET! “THE HORSE HAD
BEEN TAUGHT TO PUSH
A MAN AGAINST A WALL
IN HIS LAST PICTURE
AND HE DID THIST@
BEERY WHILE THE
TRAINER WAS OFF
FROM1 70 38
(Continued From Last Week)
THE BATTLE OF WYOMING
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True, a part of Col. John Butler's command
were Indians, and when our people fled he could
do little or nothing in restraining pursuit, even had
he tried. It is known that he tried to do so. The
4 ; contrary was charged to be true at the time by the
1A Survivors.
4 ; The Battle of Wyoming first went into history ;
i as a cold-blooded and merciless massacre; the post-
prandial orgie being the curdling story of Queen
Esther and the Bloody Rock, where prisoners of
Con You GET 10 WorDS
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“PERFECTION”
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war were led out by the Indians, stood around in Ys
rows and this she-monster walking along the lines COMPOSITIONS. GAINED EARLY FAME 59
- with a huge war club or tomahawk, braining the 5 J a IN HOLLYWQDD WITH THE
poor fellows. The first stories that found their 5 os As WELL- REMEMBERED RACING
e J : 1 rr he fivi : > ING A PICTURES w# WALLACE REID?
5 way into print were gleaned from the lying fugi- SCREEN PLAY CONCERNING FOR MORE THAN FIVE YEARS
iS tives that found their way into Delaware, when UI ET WaDD DIRECTED REID, GLORIA- eo
4 each one had told the other of the dreadful sights he PASSED ON THE BURLESQUE SWANSON. «uf FLDOLH VANTING 1s
pe: had seen, and then the writers who listened to the
narratives had allowed nothing to be lost in trans
3 mission. There never was a battle but that the . ep? = :
. first flying reports that went out from opposing LI ! ! LE JBUDDY By ‘Br a
: sides differed widely on important facts. er ———r TC Fro Te — ] —— vai oruce Stuart
7 SAY, MISTER!‘ How/ ¥7 TENICENTS £FOR = jTHEsEisMmel,., | GIMME ; THE ¥Z%
"MUCH PRE_THESEL , (cmese AND TWENTY] 1] (SWEETER THATS CHEAPER ONES
| FLOWERS ?41TS MY. IN CENTS] FORATHOSE WHY THEY'RE JMORE FOR TEN CENTS!
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Night closed upon the dreadful scene of havoc.
The pursuit of the flying soldiers could not have
been very long or rapid, as the enemy only ap-
proached Forty Fort the next morning and asked
an unconditional surrender. Colonel Zebulon But
ler and seventeen of his soldiers had escaped to
‘ the mountains during the night. Colonel Denison
remained and was in command; in command of a
lot of women’ and children, and a few wounded and
aged men;; this was not much to surrender—wo-
men, children and broken hearts.
The victors gained terms of honorable capitula-
tion; agreeing to respect private property and re
quiring the soldiers taken to pledge not again to
take up arms against the king of England. These
were not only honorable, but, under the circum-
stances, very liberal terms. A. fact that should not
be lost sight of is, that in the articles of capitulation,
Colonel John Butler had inserted a clause allowing
the “suspects” that had been driven away by the
Yankees, to return and live here in peace and quiet
and to repossess their properties. There is his
torical significance in this particular clause.
VALLEY WAS DEVASTATED ; WHAT B oe e ; ; gocD! Le <
The observance of the terms of surrender was DOCYOR ,OR “THE FIEND MOGO¢| [CLOSE CALL CONTINUE Per 7 THE oa iN | :
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kept only so far as no further massacre or human
life was taken. But private property was not fully
respected. The beautiful valley was devastated—
the torch applied to the homes and buildings, and
blackened waste took the place of the whilom pas
toral scenes. Wilkes-Barre, where there were twen-
ty-five buildings, was left with but three houses in
the place—all else was in ashes. The Indidns, drunk,
engaged in plundering and destroying. The Eng:
lish commander, Butler, tried to restrain the red
devils, but not to much avail. And it is now be-
lieved that this fact hastened his departure.
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The invading army remained in possession of the
captured fort until July 8, when Col. John Butler
called his army together and took up his return
march northward. 0
The women and children had fled to the country; gy TE a & 5 k
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was known. Many others fled across the moun-
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Sn and through the terrible wilderness back to ON A SO EONE. f SO WHAT, 4 a Ce | "
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orphaned children mostly, whose protectors lay dead CABIN, NP SAIDIT { THAT SOME OF THE EYES 45 oA ThmEe FOR 0 RETURNING
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and unburied on the fatal and bloady fie e 1 CAN'T UNDERSTAND 9 SELIM GONG ARE. (| Y/ EN Sa AFTER DARK
ce: i WHAT IT ALL
was the pitiful story that the years have but little MEANS.”
modified. The ghastly details of each family in
AKY SIP AND THEN
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When we talk of war and its grim brutalities, we
think of strong, brave, rough men, but here were 77
widows and young mothers tasting the bitter dregs 1 0 /
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ON THE FLOOR — AN EMPTY
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of woe—broken hearts and a fortitude sublime. /) / dE A / TT
It is estimated that about 160 were killed the day > 3 Ni @ 4 \ . HO 1, ut
and evening of the battle and that 140 escaped. This IY Yi, is 2 phere HA LoL VTE FLOOR eANE
estimate is given by Hon. Charles Miner and we = : : Ee
accept it as the nearest correct now ascertainable. : L
FACTS YOU NEVER-KNE By H. T. Elm
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those dread days has not and never will be written. THEM AT THEIR GO BLACK
There were a few old men with these fleeing crowds v OWN GAME 7%
of sufferers—so old and helpless mostly as to be like
the infants, but an additional burden; children were 7
born and children died on the long and terrible way. <= 7
The heroes were dead—the greater heroines lived . hi ye > 72 .f \
and hovered their helpless broods, baring their - A 4 oy 7 -
breasts to the elements and even the brutal savage | & * EN y 2 , , |
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in the protection of the young lives God had given. | / ) Zr 7 4 gol | :
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REINFORCEMENTS COME To WYOMING
On the evening of July 3rd, that had closed on
the awful field of carnage, Capt. John Franklin
arrived at Forty Fort, with the Huntington and
Salem company, about thirty-five men all told. He
and Col. Denison conferred and determined to send
to Wilkes-Barre for the cannon, call every possible
aid to Forty Fort and defend themselves to the last
extremity. A messenger sent out early on the next
morning reported the people flying and the scheme
therefor wholly impractical. Following on the
“Old Warrior's path”, he reported seeing a fleeing
crowd of 100 women and children and only one : Yn AY i ; ; ems sr NN "
man with the fugitives. This was Sheriff Jonathan I) p = , £00 ENGAGED, HE DUS UP ox .
Fitch. : Sl S) ! : AEM BLOOD-ROOY PLANT AnD RUBBED :
2 TON ] : * - hi. n 7s a0 SUICE ON WS. HAND 3 Y
It should be mentioned here that Cops Blan- i ER TVGE JE Ro Ba oN PO 4 ni 7% Cy EG {
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chard surrendered the fort at Pittston, Fort Brown, NR pm Da Tx. : PRG a FE BS Pt im Se
; a om 4 THUS, THEY BECOME ENGAGED
on the morning of the 4th to a detachment of Col. Bei SAY OF RESO 7
John Butler's command. ; on
(To Be Continued)