Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-24

If I were to say that the next patient was
noisy the expression would be weak one. He
was boy of twelve. and his trouble had been
caused by Springfield bullet entering outside
his left shoulderblade and passing beneath the
skin to the right arm, making a clean hole
all the way through. A couple of hospital
stewards we're dressing his wound, and his
howls were really deafening.
A pale-faced woman. almost white and more
handsome than many a Washington belle occu-
pied the next mattress. Her father, brother
and her husband were all killed in the fight and
there seemed to be but little left to live for
The wound from which she suffered was most
serious, her right leg being torn fearfully from
knee TO ankle. Amputation, said the surgeons,
was the only thing that would save her life but
she would have none of it; no Indian ever will.
When she was told that it was either amputation
or death, she smilingly refused to have the OPP
Grafton performed and has since been waiting
patiently for what seemed to be inevitable and
and near at hand. While was there a youth of
about fifteen came in and asked that flesh
wound in his left thigh be attended to. The
girl saw him as soon as he entered and gave a
joyful sound of recognition. moment later
brother and sister were reunited. Two of the
stewards looked at the boys wound and were
about to wash and dress it when the patient
objected, saying that he would do the job
himself; he did, too, while Faithful-that is his
much more interest than she showed in her
own CASE The doctors say today that Faithful
may yet recover.
WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE FAMILY.
Across the church were the remnants of q
family that was in the foremost of the Wounded
Knee struggle. -Four of them were left, the
husband and father-Eagle Chief-having died
a few hours previous. The mother has q serious
wound in her back, but she will not lie down
any more than she can help. sitting upright all
day and nearly all night Her second daughter,
about fifteen years old, will probably die soon.
She was shot in the right knee and the left
groin. Most of the time she is SO still that any
one might easily imagine her dead, but occa-
sionally she screams and calls piteously for re-
lief. Another daughter, q married woman of
twenty-five years, has a bullet wound in her
left ankle, and the youngest girl-a baby of
seven-also suffers with flesh wound in the
same vicinity. The baby 10 quite good natured,
as q rule.
AN ANCIENT WARRIOR.
Lying fat on his back, with his legs rigidly
drawn up, was q warrior who had seen the
Dakota in the days Of their full manhood. He
was past four score when soldiers of the
seventh cavalry put two bullets in his back. A
squaw sat near and conversed occasionally with
him, while her baby played with the hay and an
old peach can. At the end Of that row was o
little deaf mute girl, pretty little creature,
wounded in the right hand and right hip,
cheerful sufferer.
Where the little organ throws its shadow over
them when the lamps are lighted an elderly
woman and . six-year-old girl recline and suffer
together. Pleasant faced and motherly is the
woman, and although the child 10 not hers abe l.
- attentive ~ her own injuries will permit her
10 be. Few people could survive after receiv-
ing such groin wound ~ makes every mo-
ment Of the iittis things existence torture Of
the most excruciating description. She tries
to be quiet, and when the agony ID very intense
she squeszes the kindly squsw's hands tightly.
Sometimes she has to make an outcry, but it