The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-08-20

\ man, George .henSnaWs WOulu- Dt
! brought TO this city, and would proba
spread like wildfire through the city
and as the hour of their arrival ap.
| preached, a large crowd of men anC
boys assembled 10 witness the specta-
Gle, and, if possible, to catch a glimpse
| of the remains of the unfortunate men
who but few hours previous left
| Omaha in the prime of their manhood
on their usual duties. The train at last
arrived, punctualito its time, and a gen
eral rush ensued to the baggage car.
THE CHARRED RELICS.
| The small box 30xl2 inches in
closed all that was : LETT of the two
bodies, aud both, together would weigh
I about thirty pounds. These were taker
out carefully and reverentially, with
uncovered heads, by men who wished
10 pay the last sud tribute to murdered
friends. We confess to have been curl
GUS to see the remains. Men whispered
TO each other that the bodies had been
burnt. What did they look like7 How
were they burnt? Those were the
questions that we were naturally
prompted to ask. But we repressed
curiosity, Collins had already been
provided, one metallic, and the other an
elegant mahogany, finely carved, and
covered with black silk velvet, orna-
mented with silver fringe. A short
time elapsed during which the collins
had been prepared, and one OF the
boxes was opened.
- AN APPALLING SIGHT.
Every spectator involuntarily step
ped back, for exposed to view, sur
rounded by cotton, lay a blackened, F.,
charred trunk, about two feet in length,
resent bling u half-burnt log ofthe same
size 1t was carefully taken out, and we
were allowed the privilege of examin-
,lr .,I
most fell to pieces as we lightly touch
ed it, the eyes, like dry pitch, rested on
each corner of the orbital bone. The
lower portion of the face had entirely
disappeared. The teeth were all gone,
and about half dozen hard Jumps
could be distinguished rolling around
within the hollow skull. The neck ap-
peared twisted, as if the mass of flesh
and blood had writhed and seethed be-
fore the fierce heat, but now it, re-
sembled mass of black, Rlutinous
matter. OF the entire body the spinal
column alone remained, with the ribs
burnt short of. The thorax, pelyis and
limbs were all gone. Near the region
of the heart was lump of fatty matter
but closely adhering 20 the bone. By
the apparently agonizing position ofthe
neck and the grinning, CHASTITY skull,
the stunted bituminous relic seemed TO
be turning its eyeless sockets, appeal
ing to heaven for vengeance. It was an
appalling sight, and we have seldom
witnessed more impressive or a SOL
emn scene, than the one presented in
that lonely baggage room, surrounded
by laborers in their working clothes,
gazing on the two inanimate objects be-
fore US.
They were finally put in the collins,
which were borne away, attended by
large concourse offriends and acquain-
tances, and buried in The city cemetery.
A sCALPED LIVING MAN.
On the same train was man named
William Thompson, a native of Eng
land, who turned out to be one of the
telegraph repairers reported killed. He
attracted a great deal of attention from
the very extraordinary fact that the
covering for the head which nature had
so kindly endowed him with, was alb
sent. People hocked from all parts to
view the CORY, CHASTITY badness, which
had come upon MIN so suddenly, with
out any premonitory symptoms. The
poor fellow suffered horribly, II we
might Judge by his facial contortions.
He seemed weak from loss of blood.
He had received a gaping wound in the
neck, and bullet in the muscle of his
right arm. His scalp, about nine
inches in length, and four in width,
somewhat resembling a drowned rat,
as it hoated, curled up, on the water.
THE soALPED MANS STORY.
His statement, which we have been
at some pains to get accurately, is as
follows: Est ~ -LE
About 9 O'Clock, Tuesday night, my
self aud tive others left Plum Creek
Station and started up the track on a
hand car, to hunt up where the break
in the telegraph was. When we came
to where the break proved to be, we
saw a lot of ties piled on the
track, but at the same moment In
dians jumped up from the grass. all
two or three shots, and then, as the
Indians pressed us, we ran away. An
Indian on pony singled me out and
galloped up to me. After coming to
within ten feet, he fired, the bullet en-
tering my right arm. Seeing me still
run, he 'clubbed his rife, and kn )cked
me down. He then took out his knife,
a twirl around his fingers with my hair,
he commenced saving and hacking
away at my scalp. Though the pain
wasawful, and felt dizzy and sick, /
knew enough to keep quiet, Alter
what seemed to be half an hour, he
gave the last finishing cut to the scalp
on my temple, and as itstill hung a lit
tie, he gave 1t jerk. I just thought
then that I could have screamed my
life out; can't describe it TO you. 1t
just felt as II the whole head was taken
of. The Indian then mounted and
gallowed away, but as he went he drop
ped my scalp within few feet of me,
which I managed to get and hide. The
Indians were thick In the vicinity, or
then might have made my escape
While lying down Icould hear the In
dians moving around Whispering to
each other, and then shortly after pla-
cling distractions on the track. After
lying down about an hour and a half ]
heard the low rumbling of the train as it
came tearing along, and might have
BEEN able to flag it off had dared"
'THEBRAKEMAN's STORY.
From Charles Radcliffe, a snpernu-
merarY brakeman, who was in the ca
boose of the freight train when the at
tack took place, I'VE had the following:
"When the train ran off the track, he
was asleep on thebench in the toaboose,
and was suddenly thrown to the floor
by the concussion.' At the same time
he heard the yells of the Indians, and
then volley was fired upon the peo-
pie in the caboose. In the cars with
him were VIM. Kinney, conductor;
Fred. Lewis, brakeman, and a man
who had been fireman.. The locomo-
tive was thrown of the track by ties
placed on IL, and ran of about ten
feet, when it fell into a hollow about
1our feet; the tender and the first five
cars were piled on. top of onetanother,
as they bad been running az the rate
of twenty five miles an hour. Looking
out of the window of our car they could
see the Indians in strong force on the
south side of the tracS, shouting and
yelling at something at the foremost
end-probably the engineer and fire.
man. They closed the door, but in q
few moments came out, and the con-
ductor told the brakeman TO go and
flag off that train, which was coming
about three miles behind. The brake
man replied, 81 dare not-the Indians
are all around here.n To which the