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Show TELLS OF BATTLE WITH INDIANS Hastings (Neb.) Man Was Pierced . by Arrow During Fight on Homestead. BROTHER ALSO SHOT Father Believed Both Boys were Dead and Fled, but Returned Next Day and Found Them Both Alive. Hastings, Neb. Hastings has the distinction of having the only living man on record ever shot clear through the body with nn Indian arrow, the arrow passing through his body and into the body of his brother, pinning the two together. He is Nat Martin. He is now a retired farmer, living In Hastings, seventy-four years of age, strong and husky, and rather enjoys exhibiting the arrows, showing the wound in his side, and telling of the Incident. He and his brother, Robert, lived with their parents about 15 miles northwest of Hastings on a homestead. They had been with their father In a field all day making hay. It was toward to-ward evening when nine Indians rode up on ponies, bent on stealing the Martin Mar-tin horses. The father, who was on one load of hay, began shooting, and. wounded two or three of the braves. One, slipping behind the wagon, and shooting through the buy, wounded the father. Father Wounded First Though wounded, he kept on shooting shoot-ing as best he could as the horses ran on toward the house. The boys, riding together on a horse, started also for home. The Indians tried, to head them off, but falling, began shooting from behind. , The first arrow lodged in Nat's right elbow, wedging Its head In between the bones of the Joint, and the shat was broken off. The second arrow entered en-tered his back. Just under the shoulder-blade shoulder-blade next to the backbone, passed through the right lung, enme out below be-low the right breast, and stuck Into Robert's backbone, pinning the two together. , , ... ( k Escaped Being Scalped. The third arrow grazed his hip, making a slight flesh wound, and lodged in Robert's hip. Thus pinned together the boys rode on until faint from the wounds and loss of blood they fell from the horse. In falling, the arrow was pulled through Nat's body. The Indians enme up, thought they were dead or would soon die, and when one Indian suggested scalping scalp-ing them, an old brave replied: "Papoose "Pa-poose scalp no good. No honor to kill papoose." Thought Boys Dead. The father, seeing the boys fall and supposing them dead, took the other members of the family and fled for safety to Fort Keurney. Meeting a train of wagons he came back with them to recover the bodies of his boys. The boys, in the meantime, managed to crawl to the barn, where they were found next morning and their wounds &2-f Thus Pinned Together the Boys Rode On. dressed. Robert lived until about 25 years ago. Nat Is still living here in Hastings. The arrows he proudly exhibits ex-hibits are the arrows with which be and his brother weie wounded, nnd the one that paused through Nat's body still has some of the blood stuins h the groove of the urrow shaft. |