The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1889-03-22
MASSACRED BY INDIANS.
French Tourists Murdered In
Yellowstone Park.
Two Women Soalped and Three
Men Brutally Mutilated.

A half-breed hunter and trapper who ar
rived at Cheyenne, Wyoming, few days
uyo. from the '-xtreme porthwestsrn
quarter Of the Territory, brings tidings
of the atrocious massacre OF
party of five French tourists IN
Yellowstone National Park. Tho bearer OF
the news heard the story at Canyon CITY. q
new mining town, near the park, where hanS
Ferry, the guide and sole survivor ropor'eo
Terry says his charges include NJ. Le
Claire and wife; j. Vincent anu WE, anu
Paul Gerot. father of Madame vincens, ahc
sishtseers size ss''O at Virginia City, Montana, ma,
Contracting to show them through the
park, in violation of United States statues;
The strangers wore very wealthy a,I Fan. 1ar.
cisco for tho express purpose OF gong throusns
the park during the absence OF the horuo o,
summer oxcursionjsts. The party enJoyea
with tho poachers. who were slaughtering
game for hides. Their camp was always tns
Headquarters for professional hunters whom
= they supplied with luxurics.
~Sr;s story of tho murder, when no
md fusodo of shots &.rs Is sss mSss
sit1 sihu reused Forry. He realized ths
Irnsb IJ,oh n and crawling through the
sieepar S1eS rsl2Ss IN iRc tssrd ys pitsouS
groans and begging of tie foreigners,
mingled with tho yelling of tho red skins
Killed old Gerot just the sun was rising
The slaughter was most brutal Wound
after wound was inflicted before the death
shot was given. No body contained less than
ten bullets, and tho remains of Vincent, who
made desperate fight for his life, were COM
pletely rddled.
The savages passed the morning in further
nutilatinS the bodies and pillarinr their out
fit. Tho women were scalped, and their long
tresSes, matted with blood, danglei from the
bolt OF the chief OF the Indians. The heads of
tho men were hacked anI their bodies fright
fully distigured
IhG Indians found q store of liquors car
ricd by the Frcnchmen, but tho quantity
was not sufficient to intoxicate thom ali,
among themselves Tho clothes Of
tho victims were tlonncd by tho
fiends, who, as they ran from
ono wagon to the other, would halt an in
gash with Il knife. Finally, the fend'
wcarted of their bloody feast, and. packing
tho effects of the dead people on their ponies.
set ire to Tho wagons and left
Fcrry, who was nearly dead with fright,
emerged from his hidingplace when the In
dians had departed and at onco started for
oNn;X,, oanXon Glty; the nearest settlement. He
havo suffered from hunger and ex posure, Us
ne was weak, emaciatcd, and seemed slightly
dementcd when relating the terrible story.
Tho guide was PLACED in the caro- OF a
physician. but he disappeared tho second
night after his arrival aud has moi
been seen since. 1t is presumed thai
he is crazy, as he started to Tie sceno
OF tho massacre, Officers at Canyon City
have organized n posse TO secure tho
bodies of the murdered people and if possible
avcngc their deaths. They will proceed with
all possible haste, as the place is isolated anl
wolves arc liable to dcvour the renaius he
fore tho park police or the hunters Stumh'r
on them.
Ferry is tough character, but his story
is believed, although some of tho miners
hat tl,a Ia, b,,,,