Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-01-27
TWO-S STRIKES HOSTILE CAMP.
THE DEAD MOTHER.

And the mother. Gentle hands loosened the
frosty bands which bound her to the soil and
fingers which tingled with the hot flow of blood
from indignant hearts tenderly removed from
her fattened and distorted face the twigs and
leaves and dirt which in the death agony had
been inlaid in the yielding features. Her strong
arms were bare and her feet were drawn up as
the natural consequence Of a wound which
commenced at the right shoulder and ended
somewhere in the lower abdominal region.
From the wounded shoulder sanguinarv flood
had poured until her worn and dirty garments
were crimson-dyed; the breasts from which
her little ones had drawn their earliest susie
nance were discolored with the CORY stream.
1t was an awful sight; promotive Of sickening
thought and heartrending memories.
THE GRAVE.
While DR.. Gardner, Capt. Baldwin and Lieut..
Barry were satisfying themselves as to the di-
rect causes of death q detachment from the
escort had prepared q shallow grave. 1t was
on the brow Of the hill Immediately
above bOS the ass.os scene Of crime me. Red Hawk
did not take long for half dozen muscular in
fantrymen to shovel away the light soil until
the bottom of the trench was about three feet
below the surface. In one blanket and covered
by another the bodies of the three children
laid alongside their last resting e pla %%a
When the detachment returned for the mother
Red Hawk took from under his blue Overcoat a
few yards of heavy white muslin, which
he shook out and placed over his
sisters body. Then everybody went up the
hill The mother was first placed in the
grave. and upon and alongside of her were
the children. Not n sound of audible prayer
broke the brief silence. The warm sun shone
down on the upturned faces of Elk Creek 8
widow and children and the searching January
breeze played among their ragged garments.
Fiji her up, men," said Lieut.. Barry. and
that broke the spell. In five minutes little
mound was all that denoted the place from
whence four bodies shall rise to appear before
the Judgment seat, there to face four of the
most despicable assassins this world ever knew.
TRACING THE sIURpERERs.
Who were these murderers? There is where
the shame comes in. They were and still are
soldiers in the army of the United States;
''things' who wear the honorable blue and who
women and children enjoy more rights and are
accorded greater privileges than man gives to
the weaker and the younger in any other
part Of the world The chain of evidence is
complete, even to the identity of the individ-
uals who committed the deed. Indian eyes
found most of the testimony: military precis-
ion supplied the rest The first link the
finding of an empty Springfield cartridge shell
near the dead bodies. Had the killing
been done by Indians and had the Indians
thrown out the useless shells they would have
been of the Winchester variety. Upon the trail
near the little patch of brush were the tracks
of sharp-shod horses. No Indians horse wears
shoes. The tracks were made on the
day following the battle, for they were
i'll the direction of Wounded Knee
and snow had covered them mp in
places. On the day of the battle no
troops moved in that direction: on the day after
some did; then came the snow. In the bank on
which the villains laid down to pour plunging
volley into the bodies of the refugees, who were
about two or three feet below them, are the
marks of boot toes. Out in the road