The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1875-03-25
DIAIBOIISNI.
Biting Revelations of the Two Ger
maine Girls Captured from the
CheyenDes.
rrInIc Recital of their Brutal
Treatment.

HnAbial dispatch to the Chicago Tribune.
BICHrTA, KAN, March 11.-From a
HlFier direct from the Cheyenne agency,
ID something like an accurate history
be massacre Of the Germaine family on
hm Smoky Hill route, near Sheridan sta
Atn, Kansas, Sept.11, 1874 The names of
lie massacred were: John Germaine and
#ile, Stephen w, James C., and Rebecca
E afmaine.
he two captive young ladies, Caroline
Aaa Lizzie, aged respectively ID ard 10
Faers, were brought to the agency last
Nkek and will leave there within a few
l4Bs to join their younger sisters Adelaide
AHH Lucy, who were re-captured by the
ldiers last January, and are now at Fort
4eavenworth.
During their six'months' captivity they
Injured every species Of torment known
asavage devils, and now return from
HE HIDEOUS EMBRACES OF THE INDI-
ans
Rprlorn and haggard in physical appear
nee, and mentally on the verge of insan-
Caroline, the elder of the two
Gently released sisters, is young lady
~ fine intellectual accomplishments, who
retains the traces of natural beauty
ne is described by the courier as a me
alum-sized, slender, young woman, Of
|he blonde type, with light hair and deep,
IMPRESSIVE, blue eyes. When he
nv her emerge from the ambulance she
lie MOST FoRLoRN AND PITIABLE SPEC
TACLE
~ Intensified mental and physical suffer-
lllg that ever human eyes gazed upon.
lAlnce her body has been in the possession
IA the most lecherous monsters Oh earth,
ne is only wreck of her former self.
She Is now encenlte. and may not be
dc to leave Fort Leavenworth for her
ONE at Blue Ridge, GA, before her con-
1nement
" All the terrible scenes of the revolving
Mpuvity are wildly photographed in her
nemory, and she declared her ability to
identity, from among all the Indians she
pet, the nineteen savages who so brutal
Y murdered her father, mother and three
Cher members of the family.
THE STORY OF THE MASSACRE,
As told by the little girls, differs some
fhat from the account given by this
foung lady. She recollects that her ia
bier and brother were instantly shot and
killed while attempting to get out of the
Wagon. but that her mother was murdered
Rith an axe, after repeated violations OF
her person. An elder sister, an invalid,
was literally ravished to death by the de-
mons, although her corpse was mutilated
after death
-Four femalesmembers of the family
were carried away. The two children,
Adelaide and Lucy, whose re-capture was
related in the Chicago Tribune, Jared
better than Caroline and Lizzie During
the captivity Of the latter they were traded
from one band of Indians to another, the
payment for exchange being made in po-
mics. At one period, when n band met
q Mexican train, the elder sister made an
attempt TO escape, but was quickly recap
tured. Subsequently the chief whose
mistress she was tried TO barter her for q
number of ponies. The bargain was
never consummated, but compromise
was effected under which a Mexican
greaser was permitted to pass the night
with her. Language is inadequate to des-
scribe
THE REVOLVING HORRORS OF THE CAP
TIvITY,
Suffice it TO say that it was a daily and
nightly succession of heart-rending trials,
similar to those already described.
Toward the closing weeks Of their
captivity, Stone Calf, into whose posses
sion both ladies were traded, grew more
humane in behavior toward them, and,
with desire, no doubt to soften the reel
tai of the ordeal through which they
passed, gave them forty buffalo robes and
a number of ponies.
Immediately after the massacre in the
Smoky Hill, the Indians with their pris,
oners made rapid flight southwark and
shortly Joined other bands in the region OF
the Staked Plains. Through all the dreary
months of rigorous winter, in a bleak
and desolate country, the unfortunate
women were exposed to hunger and thirst,
besides being compelled to undergo forced
marches by day and night 1t IS only s
miracle that they are alive and sane to
day. There is hardly doubt that Med
icine Water of the Cheyenne tribe was
the chief that commanded the massacrina
party, AMI it is limited that rigorou;
efforts will be made to punish him and al
the warriors of the party.
fragments of silk dresses and othe
articles of clothing indicate that tn,
Germaine family was well-to-do in thu
world.