Milford chronicle., 1891-09-04
4 LEGEND or CAMP HORROR.


A Terrible Incident of DivOuao In the
Country Of the Sioux Indians.
You will wonder, Of course, why a sol
dier's c.mp should have received such
name. but It Is on the military records,
and no man will ever attempt to explain It
10 YOU without grieving over the recoliec-
tons aroused thereby.
Il WIS out In the Indian country, on the
Kansas frontier, when the red men were
making such a fight against the troops
sent ont after the close of the rebellion.
Tbey had swooped down on the Smoky
ain stage route and scalped and slaugh
terad rirbt and left, aud our command
rad heen hurried forward to protect such
settlers AS might have escaped and to open
line route again. Day after day the red
men lowered on our tanks, and night
after night they crept upon US like ser
nents and sent their silent arrows into
camp to find living targets.
One night. when the day had been full OF
excitement. and whensit seemed as If the
sioux had determined to retreat no fur
ther. the sentinels were warned to extra
vigilance. We knew that peril menaced
MS and we who stood sentry after midnight
Deered into the darkness with bated breath
and we're ready to fire At the first suspicious
sound. At | o'clock | thought ! heard 3
| light footstep on the grass. It was dark
night. with now and then a gust Of wind
sweeping up With lonesome sound, ana !
| could not be sure heard Alright
| waited. with finger on the trigger
ready TO fire II heard the footstep again.
| but il did not come to me. Scarcely ten
| minutes had passed when the sentinea on
my right, who WIS only thirty feet away
I AZ
| earbiue had not died away when loud
| Wild scream rang out upon the night, and
| every man who heard II knew that It was
uttered by woman.
Il is a good many years back. TO thai
night. but / remember every incident AZ
well as II only a week had passed Nov
and then I have dreamed Of it, and tina
scream has aroused me and taken all M
nerve. As soon as we could investigate w
| found an amazing thing-a woman lying
dead on the grass with year-old baby II
/ her armsi The sentinel had shot her deaf
in her tracks, but the baby was still asleep
with one of its mothers arms hugging i
to her breast
We looked and looked. and it was har'
/, N believe we saw Alright II was G5eftles
; wife. as was afterward known, who ha
} escaDed a massacre more than forty mile
away She had wandered around for nv
days, suffering with hunger and thirst, an
had no doubt become crazed with anxiet
and exhaustion.
There was none but old veterans in tina
/ oamp. but there were tears In all eyes whe
that poor dead body was brought int
camp, and when the Weakened baby crie'
, with fright and hunger and held out 1t
little hands to the very trooper who ha
J fired upon the mother. No one eoui
blame him in the least, but he blamed hin
self When he realized what he had don
] he turned away from us without wor
] and walked away as men walk in the
I sleep.
we had washed the mothers life bloc
a of the baby's hands, and the colonel hin
0 self was feedingit with the Cruel hastil
I prepared. when there came another sh'
e and another alarm. The trooper had gor
Just without the lines of the camp an
| fired "a bullet into his own heart Remori
! had driven him to it.
y Somewhere in the west that boy bah
), now grown to manhood, still lives, but Il
i two graves we dug next morning we
I wears ago leveled and Obliterated from a
sight but that of God. At the last gre
day be will awaken the dust Of their dea
q M. Quad in New York World.