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The settlers at first kept to their tasks in the field but after consideration of the situation decided to obey the ultimatum and depart. Most of them started to round up their horses which were grazing on the open ground south of the cabin. In the meantime the final hours of the ten-day interval which was to end at noon arrived and the Indians not disposed to mercy swooped down upon the whites in the pasture slaying several of the number some accounts
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giving the number as fourteen. Two of the men it is said ran and jumped into the kaweah and by keeping under water as much as possible managed to drift
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down the river to safety.
Frank Boden shot four times with arrows was left for dead in the weeds a short distance from the cabin. John wood alone reached the cabin and sought refuge behind the stout door which as provided with loop-holes. A number of the men had left their guns in the building so that wood had eight extra rifles at his disposal and supply of ammunition. The Indians had no firearms only knives and their bows and arrows the arrows
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