The Events at Lewiston-- Part 2: "Horribly Cut and Mangled By Tomahawks"

**  "The sight we witnessed was shocking beyond description.  Our neighbors were seen lying dead in the fields and roads, some horribly cut and mangled by tomahawks, others eaten by the hogs, which were probably left for that purpose, as they were the only animals found alive."     Portion of a letter to the Editor from the Albany Argus, dated Buffalo, dated December 26, 1813.

**  "The most savage cruelty was fiendishly enacted upon such as were unable to escape.  The sequel was but another scene of distress and affliction, transpiring in bloody tragedy."     Chipman P. Turner in "Dark Days on the Frontier of Western New York," 1879.

--Brock-Perry