Show lIVING PIONEERS rl Mary Iloutz Snow Is a daughter of the late pioneer Jacob Houtz of Splingville i and wife of Apostle Lorenzo Snow She was born Hay 19 IffO In UnIon county Pa crossed the plains In 1847 with her parents In Captain GO Daniel Spencers company the second to enter the valley of Great Sal LaKe She has resided in Brigham City since 1860 and is the mother of the grown children and has gron chidrn seven grandchildren I < w Although n she crossed the prairies when tandchidren n chId Mrs Snow has vivid I recollections of many Interesting Incidents that befell that pioneer company At Punco 300 miles north of Omaha in 1S4C she witnerced battle ot extermination T of the Sioux Indians against the Poncows The later were I friendly to the whites They wore out in force welcoming the Mormon pio neers The leader Black Chief was playing with a white rabbit Mrs Snows I r S UBS MAHY EOTJTZ SNOW father had procured for her down at Omaha Suddenly the alarm was sounded sound-ed and the mother of Black Chief came bounding into camp with the cry The big Sioux are upon us With the speed of lightning the warriors few to their posts Although a brave warrior somehow on this occasion Black Chief reluctantly gave up his play and yielded to his mothers excited entreaties en-treaties and went to head his little band of braves He and most of hs men were slain in the battle of bullets and arrows that raged on a bluff insight In-sight of the deeply interested camp of pioneers When the little band was finally wiped out a great conflagration followed Everything was burned by the victors The battle took place in the afternoon and all that night the howlings of mentation from the orphaned children the old men and the widowed squaws of the Puncos rang out on the night air and still ring vividly vivid-ly l in the ears of the subject of this sketch |