One of the men sprang to the door only to fall back with a bullet in his breast, and in another moment an Indian leaped over the threshold and attacked the remaining man before he could grasp a weapon.

Holding his antagonist the latter called out to Mrs.Bozarth to hand him a knife; but instead she snatched up an axe and killed the savage on the spot.

But that instant another leaped into the doorway, and firing, killed the white man who had been struggling with his companion; but the woman instantly turned on him, as he stood with his smoking gun, and ripped open his body with a stroke of her axe.

Yelling for help he sank on the threshold, and his comrades rushed to his rescue; the woman, with her bloody weapon, cleft open the skull of the first, and the others fell back, so that she was able to shut and bar the door.

Then the savages moved off, but they had already killed the children in the yard.
A similar incident took place in Kentucky, where the cabin of a man named John Merrill was attacked at night.