The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1876-07-06
4 sCALPED MANS srORT.
HO,U it Feels to Haze Your Top-IsIo, Torn
off on the Atd Of an Indians Ktttfe.
From the Kansas City Times.

off on the Atu Of an 411@t0ft'S hbeqe'
From the Kansas City Times.
There arrived here on Friday evening
Kansas Pacific train party of three per-
sons, direct from Deadwood City, the
new minirg town in the Black Hills,
Learning that one e the party had been
shot and scalped by Indians, a reporter
sought them out and from Mr.. A. P.
Woodward, formerly of Boston, but lat
terly of Custer, obtained the following
interesting facts relating to a recentmas
sasre about seventy miles north of Fort
Laramie. Mr.. Woodward was accOmpa-
MED by T. 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.
1t hasten of been said that a man can
live after being scalped; but until last
Friday evening no ocular proof had been
produced in this city substantiating that
fact. Herman Ganzio's head from the
center of the forehead back to the crown
of the head is at present one mass of
sores. The hair has been cut away by
the surgeons in charge at Fort Laramie,
but the pear-shaped patch made by the
scalping knife is thus made all the more
distinct. The poor fellow has been in
hospital since the 18th of April, but his
companions have stood manfully by him,
and reiterated their intention to see him
through to his home. In conversation
with the reporter, with whom he had
been previously acquainted, GanziO said,
describing his mishan:
"You see we were coming down into
the valley of Hut Greek, ON our way to
Fort Laramie, when we thought we saw
Indians coming down the creek to the
right. Instead of camping there we
thought it safer to water our stock and
go on int the hills and make a dry camp
in the bushes, if we could not make
Running Water creek, where a large
camp of freighters were reported.
az had been sent on ahead up the hill
just where the big stone hut stands, by
the road, and with boynamed Kountze,
from Omaha, and sat down to wait for
the wagons, which were slowly coming
up out of the valley. When the wagons
reached us I started on alone through
the rocks and pine bushes to seek a good
camp. A few hundred yards further on
l looked down ravine to the right and
saw FIVE mounted Indians ride across the
valley. started to go back to the
train, when at least dozen Indians ran
at me out Of the bush, and you bet l ran
and hollered for help. In a 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 l fell.
Then they were upon me in a minute,
and 'one of them put his knee in nay
back, while another hit me a clip Eith
club or butt Of gun. / don't know
which, as had no time to think. Anil
knew was / was being scalped; my hair
was held tight. ! felt a hot, red hot,
singing sort Of pain all around the top |
of my head-being torn out by the roots
lit was too much; ! couldn't stand it;
/ died--at least l thought did. But
my scalp was saved just as it was being
torn of. The boys at the wagon had
seen me running; saw the Indians, and |
came on--thirteen Of them-and got up |
just in time to prevent the red devils |
finishing their work. The Indians, as
well as my friends, thought / was dead. |
But ! came to again, and my scalp was
laid back again. 1t was only half torn
of, as you viii see, and is growing again
nicely"
The poor fellow was taken to Fort
Laramie and received every attention,
and as soon as he was able stated for his
parents home in Milwaukee. He is the
first white man who has felt the '.In-
jun's" hand in his hair this year who
has lived to come home and tell how il
feels. The Black Killers spent yester-
day in the city, and last evening con-
tinued their journey eastward.
The California professors are eccen-
trio, A scientific man in San Francisco