[Footnote: American State Papers, Indian Affairs, vol.i., pp.

87, 88, 91.] They first attacked a small new-built station, on one of the bottoms of the Ohio, some twenty miles from Limestone, and killed or captured all its fifteen inhabitants.

They spared the lives of two of the captives, but forced the wretches to act as decoys so as to try to lure passing boats within reach.
Their first success was with a boat going downriver, and containing four men and two unmarried girls, besides a quantity of goods intended for the stores in the Kentucky towns.

The two decoys appeared on the right bank, begging piteously to be taken on board, and stating that they had just escaped from the savages.

Three of the voyagers, not liking the looks of the men, refused to land, but the fourth, a reckless fellow named Flynn, and the two girls, who were coarse, foolish, good-natured frontier women of the lower sort, took pity upon the seeming fugitives, and insisted on taking them aboard.