The Princeton union., 1894-07-26

J. b. Reynolds, who had come out from
Painesville. Ohio and was expecting to re-
Mary. schwandt,. who were domestics in
the family Of Mr.. Reynolds-upon hearing
Of the trouble had started from his place
in in which We're Mr.. Patoile (of Yellow Isdl Medi-
cine) and Lee Davis of Shakopee. Mr. and
Mrs. Reynolds were in buggy and they
a short time they separated. Those in the
! wagon We're near the fort Ridgely, on the
opposite side Of the river, when they We're
aga ge y h rnn pnt ee s
taken, Mary Anderson being shot in the
back, the ball lodging in the abdomen 1t
! was after dark when they were brought
where I was.
I A Night of Terror.
! Following Godfrey and Mary Schwandt
crowd Of Indians came into the house
armed with guns and carrying the knapsacks
In moment all was terror and confusion.
Lights were struck and curses and impreca-
tions resounded on all sides. The children
| We're terror stricken. Mary Anderson was
urging Matte, Williams and myself to ex-
tract the bullet from her body. Mary
me to tell her what they said. My eldest
boy was crying, care we going to be killed
now, mamma? Don't let them kill us with
knives" Nothing could describe that awful
scene
1T 1T was as # the fiends that fell 1] ;,
Had pealed the banner-cry OF hell"
| Shocked into feeling of desperation and
an absence of fear, determined to tell the
killed me while speaking. Some of the
young men knew: They had often come
to TO- IN me , to learn lear English words I asked
deeds they had done: They replied that it
was such fun to kill white mem" they
n 10 hot
one Indian could kill ten white men without
trying. Without fear told them they would
%te hagea had cane anehr Sev
soon return; that the Whispering spirit''
(the telegraph would bring more men than
would y d! cover the prairies and that if they
| hideous forms would be dangling from a
| ropes end. How they scoffed and jeered
they IS swuhg theF titles and
they could without hitting them.
The fendish conduct went on until the
so a n
his two sons, boys not more than sixteen,
fRa R what oa e{ 6 hs S DONG 6 cas g be
Of his band. The most Of them were, so
asked me-: "How long has this been going
on?" told him everything that had hap
pened while he was away. He seemed dis
sons had been in the crowd. M Telling us US
not to fear further molestation, he turned
to Mary Anderson and asked what he could
the 'fs puet out Of her body Using ana an od
jack knife he probed the wound, first taking
out the pieces of wadding, and finally found
some water and tearing up an old, apron
soaked it and placed it on the wound. The
poor girl had grown delirious,. and we all
some old clothes together for her to lie on,
we lifted her upon a rude bedstead. Wacou-
ia left us, telling us he would keep watch
that we should not be disturbed again.
Wacouta and the Warriors.
Morning came at last, and Wacouta came
according to promise, telling us that we
must stay there, as the Indians were going
beeT to to tbo Fort Rdge He sad
going; He said: ''Yes; my band would kill
me if did In not co. He carried 1 Mary up
bringing up pail Of water, shut the trap
door of our prison and left u.s.. again i'm
pressing upon us the necessity Of remaining
perfectly quiet. No food was left us. and to
this called his attention, but he said there
was no time to prepare any, as his band
was waiting for him and he must be off,
From hole in the chamber we could see
the Indian cavalcade marching by. The
bodies of the warriors were entirely divest-
ed of clothing except the loin cloth, which
loosely around the neck, floating to the
breeze as ~, their ponies pranced, and
colors Of the rainbow, and their ponies IS were ere
decked with ribbons and tassels of every
bright hue. The chiefs were dressed in
(Wabasha's). They rode gaily away. shout.
ing and whooping as only Indians can.
Hiding in Horror.
We now turned our attention to our own
situation. Mary was. in a violent de!irium
Of fever and calling for food 9d and there was
passive and did not seem to notice any
thing: How long we were to remain there
their families had left the camps for the
upper villages when the warriors started
for below Unless ,the the whites game can to
But for Wacouta Strict injunctions a
part of us would have gone in search Of
riding past and knew that they were watch
ing US. Mary became SO violent in her
mravings that We feared ed, dscovsrS and
went out and found some green corn. Bring
ing it in we all ate ravenously of it,
though it was raw, and we tried to give
ing all the time that we wanted to starve
| her, and that if only DR.. Daniels would
| come he would cure her.
Amid SorrOwfuI Scenes.
Thursday, about noon, the war party re-
turned, some Of the Indians passing the
house we were in. At last wagon stopped
and took Mary Schwandt away; then came
another which took Matte Williams and
at last a man that knew drove up and
| told us to get ready to 60 with him to the
camps. above. I got into the. wagon with
my baby, then he lifted Mary in and placed
her head in MY lap, and my two children
crept into the bottom Of the wagon at our
feet Marys limbs were getting rigid and
she could scarcely speak, but I hoped she
would live until we reached the camp. Our
way lay through the streets of the agency,
where the bodies of the first days victims
We're still lying It was an awful sight and
tried to screen my children from it. I
saw the body of Divoll, one of Myrick's
clerks, lying on a burned floor, his features
natural as in life. but his body burned to
a cinder. The bodies Of Myrick, Lynde and
others lay there. Some Of them had been
decapitated, but the Indians did not touch
them or even seem to notice them. Just as
we were passing the last buildings, which
for some reason had not been burned, they
began to stone the windows and set fire to
them. A dreadful storm had been gathering
Tor some time, and just as the buildings
were fired it burst upon us with great fury.
The. crash Of the thunder, the flashing Of
the lightning, together with the roaring and
cracking Of the flames Of the burning
houses, made scene not easily forgotten,
and the horrors Of that ride will never be
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