The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-16
CHIEF wH1Buw1ND DEAD.

At One Time Prominent Figure on th-
 Plnins-A Terror of tho Whites In Kan
 sas for Many Years-He Led the spille
 man Creek assaore-Vanquished by
 General Custer.
 tFrom the St. Louis Globe-Demooratl
 Guthrie, Oklahoma, July 19,-A brief dispatch from Elreno, Oklahoma, told of the death of Whirlwind, an aged Cheyenne chief living on an allotment west of Fort Reno, his passing away being the result of heart trouble brought on by the sudden announce ment of'the unexpected death of little granddaughter, whom the old warrior most noted of the fighting Indians of the southwest.
 Whrlwind was in his time the most daring and bloodthirsty chief of the many great fighters of the tribes of the southern plains, outranking Lone Wolf, Yellow Bull Santana and even Black Kettle, before whose terrific onslaught the United States army SO often fled in dismayed retreat across the plains. He was a nephew of Black Kettle, and un- der him developed into a warrior of tri- bal reputation at an early age; but it was not until after the bloody massacre led by Colonel Chivington, near Denver, in 1864, that he became known and feared by the whites. Immediately af- ter this he took the field as an aveng- ing Nemesis, and many are the tales told in western Kansas of his cruelties and assassinations, as again and again he led his bloodthirsty band of war riors on sanguinary raids from their hiding places in what is now Oklahoma.
 In 1865 the Hon. William Matthewson of Wichita, as peace commissioner for the government, held meeting with WhirIwind and a number of sub-chiefs north of Wichita, Kan, and entered into a treaty of peace, which was for mally ratified at the great peace com mission meeting held at Medicine Lodge eighteen months later, when there were present a score or more of southern chiefs with their bands and great del- egation of congressmen, senators and eastern philanthropists, who believed then, as they do now, in the noble red man of the story book, whom nobody has ever seen in real life. Some of these people even go so far as to assert that Whirlwind and the other chiefs present at this treaty kept their promises, when it is absolutely known by every frontiersman and army officer that eve ny one of them was up ito his old devil try within six months afteY the meet ing.
 The Cneyennes, Arapahoes and Kio- was were allied in 1S66-7-S, and their regular raiding ground was in the sparsely settled counties of central and western Kansas, with occasional trips into Texas. During all this time it was known by the soldiers and scouts that Whirlwind was leading one of the most daring bands of Cheyennes, but so swift were his movements and so sure his work that it was impossible for a long time to even get absolute information as to his being the leader, let alone put a stop to his depredations. These allied tribes made frequent raids and killed or captured many settlers, eliminating their atrocities in what was known as the Spillman Creek massacre, in Els worth county, north of the present city of Annapolis, Kan. A few months be- fore the meeting of the peace commits sion in 1867 they raided the settlements along the Solomon river, and stole many horses and much other plunder. Two little girls, aged six and eight, were captured, but abandoned the next day when company of soldiers were seen approaching. The same day an- other party, led by Whirlwind himself, dashed up Sugar Creek and captured three women and carried them off to captivity and a fate worse than death.
 For time after the treaty of Med tcine Lodge the reds kept comparative Hy quiet, but early in the following spring they renewed hostilities. On May 31, 1868, Whirlwind and Black Ket- tile inaugurated the raid known in his tory as the 'Spillman Creek massacre , Ut was early that morning that two claim prospectors first saw the Indians coming over the divide south of the creek, marching in fours and each wearing a blue blouse. They took them to be a company of soldiers at first sight, but on closer inspection discov- cred their true character and turned about and escaped, warning all the set tiers as they went The Indians gave chase for a short distance, but soor gave 1t up and went on their way They first attacked a settlement ot Danes near the mouth of Trail Creek At the first cabin they killed man anG tlis wife, mutilating their bodies terri ply, and at the next place butchered g young man who was building a house chopping his head to pieces with his own hatchet. Two young men on theil way to visit at the settlement, and hay ing with them their young sister, were overtaken by the band and desperate fight ensued, the young men battling with desperation to save their sister Several of the Indians were wounded but the ammunition of the two brave lighters giving out, they were finally killed and scalped and the sister seized and also killed after being subjected tt the most terrible indignities.
 About dusk that evening the band ar rived at the home of Joseph Kline, hi wife and one child and a neighbor wo man, Mrs. Olderdice, and her four chil dren being there alone. Mrs. Olderdic fled into the woods, and Mrs. Kiln. leaped into the stream, waded a lont
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