The New Hampshire Gazette

By a Letter from Reading, in Berks County, dated the 25th Instant, there is Advice, that on the Wednesday before there was as dreadful a Thunder Storm as has been known for twenty Years past, which extended over Berks and Northampton Counties: That the Dams of seven Forges and six Grist-Mills, on Monatawney Creek only, besides some in other Places, were broken down by it, and great Quantities of Hay carried away: That in the Height of the Storm seven Indians killed and scalped one Trump in Allamingle and left a Knife and Halbert sticking in his Body: That they made his Wife and one Prisoner; but that the Woman escaped, tho' pursued so very closely by one of the Savages, that throwing his Tomahawk, it struck her in the Neck, and cut her badly, but the Wound is not dangerous; and the Son some Time after also made his Escape, and got safe into Fort Lebanon, in Berks County.

In the same Letter it is said, that in Tulpehocken a Man was killed by the Indians at the very Time that Trump was murdered, between Fort Henry and the Fort at the North Kill; and that the next Evening they carried off a young Woman from the same Neighbourhood.