Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-08-14
he camp. The big Indian who had come a,


 me with his tonahawk seemed to be also the only warrior of this band who was not in the general engagement The squav who had jerked mo down in tho snow held mo there by my hair, and a lot of other sQuaws and children came swarming from tents in all directions to tho spot They surrounded me, spit iii my face, jumped on my body, kicked me, pinched me, thrust the points of knife blades in my flesh, and tortured me in every way they could think of. Besides, my arm was paining mo tremendously and dycing the snow all around mo with the blood that flowed from the wound. Tho big Indian stood by with his toiiiahawk in his hand, and, fortunately for me, he gave tho women and their young devils too much time to have their sport with me, for suddenly there came the sound Of gun near by, and two squaws fell dead in the snow by my side. One of our boys had discovered my situa- tion. The other squaws and their young ones scampered away, but the big Indian was determined to run the risk of getting my scalp anyway, and he bounced down on me, with his knees On my chest, drew his knife, and the next second, although it seemed hours to me, the top of my head was i'll his hand, and he was gone.
 ''Imagne some one who hates you with the utmost intensity" Sanbertson said, in describing the sensation of the scalping, ''and he suddenly grabbing handful of your hair, while you are lying prostrate and helpless, and giving it Q quick, up ward jerk with force enough almost to loosen the scalp; then, while this painful ticularly-sharp blade of a knife being run quickly in circle around your scalp, with sawing-rke motion. Then let your imagination grasp, if 1t can, the effect that a strong, quick jerk on the tuft of hair to release the scalp from any clinging par ticles of flesh that may still hold it in place would have on your nerves and physical system, and you will have an ,nkling of how it feels to be scalped. When that Indian sawed his knife around tho top of my head, first 0 sense of cold numbness pervaded my whole body. This was quickly followed by flash of pain that started at my feet and ran like an electric shock to my brain. The sensation was but momentary, but it was terrible. When the Indian tore my scalp from my head it seemed as if it must have been con- nected with cords to every part of my body. The pain that followed the cutting around the scalp had been frightful, but it was ecstacy compared to the torture that followed the tearing of 1t from my head. Flashes of pain shot to every nerve. My HueeS WeFe OTdWu up dAiuoSG SO uAy SAAA, and the fingers of my right hand closed convulsively in the snow, those of my left hand being spowerless owing to the shat tered arm. That was all 1 remembered. When came to I was in 9 tent. The cav airy had come up in the meantime, and the Indians were routed. Only few cs- capped, but Black Kettle was among the few"
 Sanbertson lay for weeks in the Govern ment hospital at Fort Laram1e perfectly helpless and suffering untold agony. He finally recovered, and in the meantime his term of enlistment expired. He had 10 de- sire to re-enter the service, and General Custer jocularly remarked to him that he made mistake in quitting the service. "For think" said the General, ''how sur prlsed and disgusted some red devil of an Indian might be If you should stay with us and happen to fall in his hands when he went to raise your hair to find that some one else had been there before him." saw Sanbertson several years afterwards, and the same pale rcd, flat, round, bare where his scalp had been torn away as had seen it when he left tho hospital He said that it was extremely tender, and in damp or cold weather was painful
 The other person saw at Fort Laramie whose head had been tempered with by the | scalping knife was Herman Ganzio. The h. | dian who was after this mans scalp did not have time to complete the job, for he was compelled to abandon it after having got the scalp ready to tear off. Ganzio, I believe, was from Milwaukee, and had been acting as scout and guide for party of tourists | on the plains III the summer of 1876. The party was scared away from the valley of Hat Creek by Indians, and wero on their 1 way acT\Ss the country to Running Water l creek. Ganzio had gone on ahead to pick out l a good place for camp on their way. He discovered five Indians riding across the valley off to his right and he turned to re. | join his party, who were only a short dis. tancc in the rear. He had got to within l sight of the teamsters when dozen In. dlans jumped from the bushes. Ganzio started on run and shouted for help. The Indians fired on him, and he fell wounded in the shoulder and his leg. The Indians rushed upon him. Ganzio lay flat on his face. One of the Indians pressed his knees on Ganzio's back and grabbed him by the hair. The Indian sawed his knife around the top of Ganzio's head, and his descrip
 tion of the sensation was the same as the
 one Sanbertson had given at the fort seven
 years before. Ganzio escaped the torture
 of the tearing of process, for before the
 Indian could finish that part of the work ! AI1CuOSs a uOLCA UT SO HI AuuuOI
 were upon the spot, and the Indians fled
 not one shot that was fired after them talk
 ing effect on any of them. This happened
 only seventy miles from Fort Laramie, ani
 Ganzio was taken there directly. The army
 surgeons bound the scalp, hanging to tht
 head by a small connection of flesh. Tht
 scalp was bound to its place, and in few
 weeks it grew fast there again, but thu
 ugly red scar around the top of Ganzio''
 head, marking the course the Indians knif
 had taken, the surgeons said would alway'
 be a conspicuous reminder to Ganzlo ant
 his friends that he owed the possession o
 the top of his head to one second of time
 for If his friends had delayed their arriva
 by that much the scalp and the 1lndial
 would have gene away together.-N. Y
 Times.
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