The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1876-06-24
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From the Kansas city Times. sSNrs -
There arrived here on friday eveufng',
Kansas Pacific train q party Of three per.
sons, direct from Deadwopd City, the
new mining town in the Black, Hills.
Learning that one of the party had been
shot and scalped by Indians, reporter
sought Them out and from Mr. sA.yP.
Woodward, formerly of Boston, but hat
terly of Custer, obtained the following
interesting facts relating to q recentmas-
sd sre about seventy miles north Of Fort
Laramie. Mr.. woodward was accompa-
MED by 7. S. Gates, of st. Louis, and
Herman Ganzio. OF Milwaukee, the lat
ter wounded and suffering from wound
in the scalp. The scalp is, in fact. half
gone. "a - - 49, -,
lthas often been said. that q man can
live after being scalped ;r7but until last
Friday evening no ocular proof had been
produced in this city sabstantiating II
fact. Herman GaRsio' g head from the
center IF the forehead hack to Che crown
of the head is at present one mass Of
cores. The hair has been cut array by
the surgeons in chafgeat Fort Laramie,
but the pear-shaped patch msiae by the
scalping knife is thus niatlea IN the stnore
distinct. The POOR fellow has been m
hospital since the lsth Of Aprii, but his
companions have stood manfuily by him,
and reiterated then intention 70 see him
through to his home. In conversation
with the xeportes,. with whom he had
beenspreyiously acquainted, Ganzipsaid,
describing hig nishspsgY !Na avssxs
stssSYon see waWenEcsn,ingd swns into
Of lint 0aeeh, unEoaxrBaHzto
Foft laramie, whom We thoughsasesaw
Indians coming down tbs creek ito the
right Instead ofscam Ping thereaawe
Thought itsafsYstoS wster our stock and
go on 'f1te the hills and make asffy camp
in the bushes if ne could not make
Running Water c-eek, where q large
camp OF freighters were reported. -
81 had been sent on ahead up the,Lill,
just where the big stone hut sstandss BY
the road, and With aboynamed Kountze,
from Omaha, and sat down to waitfor
the wagons, which were slowly coming
up out of the vsalev. Wren the wasons
reached us Il started onsslone thno6gh
ths-roeizs andspise sht1shestto SEEK good
eamps . A lkwshunared yads farthersu
1 looked down aravinel to. the Hight and
saw five mounsed Indians ride acrosstlse
valley. I started to go back to the
train, when at least dozen Indians ran
at me out of the bush, and You bet ran
and hollered for help. In minute more
two or three of them shot at me. felt
a sharp, singing pain in my left leg and
another in my left shoulder, and 1 fell.
Then they were upon me in minute,
and zone of them put his kneeai my
back, while another hit me clip with a
club or a butt Of asgun. II don't know
which, as hadsno time 10 think. tAll.I
knew wasI was being scaIped my hair
was held tight. al felt q hot, red hot,
singing sort Of pain all around the top
Of my head being torn: out BY. the roots
1t was too much; I couldn't stand it;
I died-at least / thought I did. But
my scalp was saved just as it was being
torn off. The boys at the wagon had
ssen nle running; saw the Indians. and
came on--thirteen OF then--.and gotEup
just in timel to prevent. the zred devils
finishing their work. . Ths Indians, sas
we'll ~ my friends, thought + was dead.
But 7 came to again, and my scalp was
laid back again. 1T was only half torn
q. as you will see, and is growing again
nicely" 80 -.
The poor fellow was taken to Fort
received. every attention,
and as soon as he Was able stated for his
parents home in Milwaukee, He is.the
FIRST white man who hassefslt the s1n-
iun's'a hand in hiss1haif this year who
has livedto come home and tell how it
Ieels. The Black Killers spent.yester-
day In the city, and last evening con-
tinued their journey eastward. yA-Azs
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