Salt Lake Tribune | 1902-12-25 | Page 2 | Massacre of Indians

HASSACJRE OF INDIANS Little Salmons Slaughtered by tho Pclly Tribe Victoria B C Dec 24Tim steamer Amur which arrived from Skagway today to-day brought news of the macsacro of Salmon Indians and tho murder of n storekeeper whoso storo was looted and burned by Poly River In lans Dispatches from Dawson stato that tho Little Salmon Indians wore on tholr way out to sell furs when attacked by tho I Pelly Indians The Little Salmons wore oncamped and they awaited the appearance appear-ance of tho Pcllyq without expecting dan ger gerWhen tho latter were within a short distance of tho unsuspecting Llttlo Salmon Sal-mon Indians they yelled and simultaneously simulta-neously nnxl tholr guns A number of tho Little Salmons were slaughtered on tho spot Others wcro followed and killed while they woro fleeing for safety A small number of the party escaped The survivors returned to tho homo village vil-lage und the women and children wero hurried to tho police post at Tantalus for safety Little definite news was received regarding re-garding an attack on tho store which occurred on December 1st and vaguo news received by the police say that tho storekeeper was hot and killed and his assistant who was wounded fled to tho woods but being unprepared for tho woo cold probably die Tho storo was looted and burned