Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1878-10-10
The EEts.HYs.

A dispatch to TIC Hcral:l, !G.om Kansas City
saws: The half has not beID told Il The aroc!
ties committed by Tue Cheyanncs % theif Tru.c
from thcie reserVa.ion acros5 Kansas. Leaving
as they did behlIi than trails OF: tsp!Uc ard
Blood. | nav, he"1 oyar tins whoe E:d ocrh
of the Kansas Pacific road from Buffalo Station
to the Headwaters Of Beaver Creek end the
facts there obtained ere simply frigh'tui.
The indians crossed the Kansas Pacific sosi
on Tuesday last, and proceeding north sacked
the possoaice oa the uorth fork ct tho Solomon,
but j ohm Bsi!ess, the postmaster, escaped
They then went 10 ucrtheasterIy direction
aud killed every pcrsoD and sacked everything
10 their way. Near Beaver Creek they attack
cd q ranch ovped by Thomas Lyich, who I'D
10 dupcus with his Vt !, and tHo childreu.--
The lodaos came whooplGg VI, but Lynch
killed TWO With a revolver aud the rest h1d.
Ga Sappa Creek occuttcd 90 outrage, the
recital OF which takes the EiocG :uo cod. The
howIiug dcmons csme suddenly upon the house
Of II. Lang, aud after killing tbs f.thcr AID
two soDp outraged the mother and two daugh-
tcrs, and then 4.turaticg She house with kero
scne set il en- lire. The two little daughters
were Only tl>van and thirteen years of age, and
arc now in state Ct seal madness, al! OF them
api1g troEl the burning building after the
rcd devils lc!!.
lust north @! Lang plaso Kate Abe rnathy,
school mistress, YVES as2 HaVlshed and mur-
Gcgrj Seventeen dead bodies we're gathered
up by the settlers aod hurled at EawdeD, all Of
whom we're luogr, ard niue uIkIoT1 and IN
racogIized cues
Uotl alter tho lniaus passed Beaver Creek
they killed men, woman, children aud stock
with guns but after leaving tha: stream they
used gxes 10 kill the people, in yearly every 10
staDoc crushing the lace and skul! and mutlIat'
irg the bodies IN the Rose barb.rgu3 maroer.
This was because they were getnng short OF
ammuoilon ard had TO save every ounce OF
powder aD:i bGli.
q Mr.. Humphrey, from Illinois; George Smith,
II. Lang sad :wo sons FL. Hudson, Il. Wostfall
and two sons, George hvaDs Horny AbeTanthy,
Mrs. Westials outraged and terribly wounded;
Frank hull Frederick Waters. ranchman,
from New York; Il. Kelly Theodore Young
ard eight children, found s;rewn along the
prairie5 Sith their brain: beaten out.
1he eilustion is simply friGhlful, bu! tho In
iiiana hnvo low left tho Stats, and people will
return 10 their homesttsls
During Ell this time the troops Rere only
few hours in the rear, and stocknen and settlers
are very Guter IL their 0eNuDclaLlOU VI lue way
thYy were handled. On one occasion about two
hundred Soldiers c4me up with tho Indians, but
neglected to oCgng1 them, giving as excuse that
the soldiers were tired OH and needed rest
General def G. Davis had his headquarters a.
Wsllace, but did .,1t take the field IN person,
aud General Pope the dopNrlmoDt commander
seomcd to have littla knowledge cflho st:tp OF af
tiair, rs he te!egraphed gu th~d"Y the men Wcr5
killed south Of 6utfslo, tins! There WAS not SD
Indian il Kansas"
A dispatch from Houston, Texas, says.
Information from General Ma:on and from
other sources confirm sho slaughter on the an
instant .! three girls aid boy named Dewey
in Kerr county: on tho waters OF tho ;?uad.lCupo
river. The young girls We're list OUTRAGED and
then had their scalp removed aud W5re lett
with their skulls baro md nloaJlng. Tho hu-
man devils afterwards returned and buschered
the three innUccAts K: y m0!t horrlbl1 manner,
leaving their bloody c3rp1us oa tho pralrle hear
their dwelling. The lille boys scalp Was
shearot. Mrs. Dowdy mis- Cd hor children at
dinnor, and on gGng TO look for them found the
bodies Of tho girls and boy Ill tie ra
vine Th@ largest girl sged eig hteen years,
wss still alive bat she had been so horribly out
ragged that she shortly died in great agony,
without speaking When found her body was
full OF arrows mono Of which could DO pulled,
out. l. c1rnpa:y OF citG,Gs sunt III pursuit OF
the Indians. who had Il large number OF stolen
hcrses. General Mason by Telegraph, notifies
GoneIais Ord ind Mckenzie that troops h.ve
been sent in pursuit 10 intercept the indians be-
frro rerchiag tho Rio ,5r,Ida.