Show NORSEMEN AND INDIANS FIGHT NEAR SPOKANE IN YEAR 1010 Writing on R Rocks Tells of Col Pre Pre Battlo TELLS OF TRAGEDY Vikings frOm from Scandinavia fa Had V Women and and Chil Children dren With Them SPOKANE D Wash Ju July y 4 Dy 4 ByTho The Associated pr Press ss In- In inscriptions In Inscriptions translated ted by Professor Oluf as telling of ot I n a terrific battle between a 0 band of Norsemen and Indians inthe In the year 1010 it A A D Dhave have ben been found almost within the city limits of of Spokane In th the thi i discovery to- to today today to today day Professor ProCessor said ald a great lt lava rock roche roc Ie which bears the Inscriptions marks the burial mound or of 12 11 Norsemen who were killed In Inthe i ithe Inthe the battle Professor ProCessor widely known as a translator ot ut Of Runic charac charac- characters characters tenS appearIng in in several parts of oC America declared the die dis- discovery dis discovery covery Is the greatest Norse record ever found Cound In the United Sates Located beneath the hIgh and beside II a cold water water vater spring the In- In Indelible In Indelible details o oa ofa a 0 great ercal conflict fought more moe than years year belore Columbus discovered ered America ARRIVE J AT SPItING A band of Norse vikings consist consist- consisting consist Ine ing of ot 2 24 men men men and ond seven women were following an old od trail while traveling from Irom east to west In 1010 1 Mr explained Ex Ex hausted and thirsty they came to trail and the the- spring beside the camped ho hoc said sald The Tir spring was not pot a a large larf one and the th water was drained from It A A party of Indians came cam along alone and found the spring empty empty empty They Immediately attacked the Norse party In an ef- ef efI effort effort ef effort fort to It aWn away I Tho The record left lert tells toils that th the themen themen I men of the party parly put the seven women omen and the on top of tte I boulder where they could not be beI b I reach reache-B reache i by the Indians and the themen themen themen men about the base bue has righting the Indians Indians- OUS HOUSEMEN mN KILLED I Twelve of the Norsemen were and I the other escaped eS l latte atte two men hid had been Six of the women women were ta taken en onet while the ti V ornan Ith the I baby In her arm was thrown tram front the top of of the tho boulder and killed Later six of at the survivors re- re returned returned re returned turned to the spring and the scene thi of th battle t le Hero Here they dug due a gr grave ve b pear tho the rock and burled buried their dead who had been stripped it of everything they possessed As Asto Asto Asto to the burial mound It Is plaInly vIsible The on the rock rock- were called ailed to 10 the attention of b by Mrs F P P Reynolds Renolds Spokane who ho for Cor years has been Interested In Runic writings 00 I |