Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1889-09-20
HAD HIS HAIR RAISED.
Vivid Description of the Sensa-
ton Under the Knife. of Sioux
Chief--TWo Westerners Who
Survived the Operation.

survived the operation.
Few men have been scalped and
lived, but frontier correspondent has
found two who have survived the oper-
alton, One is private in the regul az
army named Sanbertson, and the other
former resident OF Milwaukee named
Ganzio. Sanbertson was shot through
the arm in a fight with Black Kettle 5
band.
Imagine some one who hates you
with the utmost intensity" Sanbertson
said, in describing the sensation of tn g
scalping, land he suddenly grabbing "A
handful OF your hair, while you are
lying PROSTATE and helpless, and Civ ing
it II quick, upward jerk with force
enough almost To loosen the scalp;
then, imagine the not-particularly :
sharp blade of "a knife being run quick :
ly IN a circle around your scalp, with "A
sawing-likc motion. Then let your i'm
Imagination grasp, If 1t can, the effect
that a strong, quick jerk on the tuft OF
hair 10 release the scalp from any
clinging particles of flesh that may
hold it in place would have on your
nerves and physical system, and you will
have an inkling of how it feels
TO be scalped. When that Indian
sawed his knife around the top
OF my head, first sense of cold
numbness pervaded my whole body.
This was quickly followed by q flash
of pain that started at my feet and ran
like an electric shock to my brain.
| That sensation was but momentary,
but il was terrible. When the Indian
tore my scalp from my head it see med
as ii IL must have been connected with
every part of my body. The pain that
followed the cutting around the seal p
had been frightful, but it was ecstacy
compared to the torture that followed
the tearing of it from my head. Flashes
OF pain shot TO every nerve. My knees
were drawn up almost to my chin, and
the fingers of my one hand closed con-
vulsively in the snow, those OF my left
hand being powerless owing to the
shattered arm. That was all remem-
bered. When l C .me TO | was in II
tent. The cavalry had come up in the
meantime, and the Indians were rout-
ed. Only few escaped. but Black
Kettle was among the few"
Sanbertson lay for weeks in the gov
eminent hospital ut Fort Laramie per-
fectly helpless and suffering untold
agony. He finally recovered, and in
the meantime his term OF enlistment
expired. He had no desire TO re-enter
the service, and Gen. Custer jocularly
remarked 10 him that he made q mis-
take in quitting the service. "For
think" said the General, 'how sur
prsed and disguised some red devil OF
an indian might be, if you should = tay
with us and happen TO fall in his hands,
when he went TO raise your hair to find
that some one had been there before
him. saw Sanbertson several years
afterward, and the same pale red, fiat,
round, bare spot was on top of his head,
showing where his scalp had been torn
away, as | had seen it when he left the
hospital. He said that it was extreme
ly tender, and in damp or cold weather
was very painful.
The other person ! saw ut Fort Lar
annie whose head had been tempered
with by the scalping knife was Herman
Ganzio. The Indian who was after this
man 5 scalp did not have time TO com
plete the job. for he was compelled to
abandon it after having got the scalp
ready TO tear off. Ganzio, l believe,
was from Milwaukee, and had been act
ing as scout and guide for party of
tourists on the plains in the summer of
1876. The party was scared away from
the valley OF Hat Creek by Indians.
and were on their way across country
TO Running Water creek Ganzio had
gone ahead to pick out a good place
for camp on their way. He discover
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off TO his right and he turned to rejoin
his party. who We're only short dis
lance in the rear. He had got to with
in sight OF the teamsters when dozen
Indians jumped from the bushes. Gan
zio started on a 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 dcscrip-
tion OF the sensation was the same as
the one Sanbertson had given at the
fort seven years before. Ganzio
escaped the tortures of the tearing-oif
process for before the Indian could
finish that part of the work Ganzio's
friends, a dozen or more in number,
were upon the spot, and the Indians
fed, not one shot that was fired after
them taking effect on any of them.
This happened only seventy miles from
Fort Laramie, and Ganzio was taken
there directly. The army surgeons
found the scalp hanging to the head by
small connection Of flesh. The scalp
was bound TO its place. and in few
weeks it grew fast there again. but the
ugly red scar around the top of Gan
zio's head. marking the course the
Indians knife had taken. the surgeons
said would always b. Il conspicuous
reminder to Ganzio and his friends
that he owed the possession of the top
of his head To one second of time, for if
his friends had delayed their arrival
by that much. the scalp and the Indi-
ans would have gone away together"
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