The San Francisco call., 1898-01-10
Details of the Burning of Two Indian Mur-
 dererS.
Funeral Pyre Built About the Prisoners in the Hands
 of the Mob.
Other Redskins in a Plot to Exter- n1inate Whites Will Be Lynched
 When Captured.
Special Dispatch to The Call.


 LITTLE ROCK, Ark, Jan. B. Charred and burned beyond all sem blance of human beings, the remains of Marcus McGeisey and Palmer Simpson, two Seminole Indians who few days ago murdered Mrs. James Simmons, are still resting in chains against the blackened trunk of an oak tree in the Seminole station, where, on Friday night, they met their death in the most awful manner conceivable at the hands of an Oklahoma mob. The flesh is burn ed from the bones and lies in greasy and ill-smelling particles in the ashes on the ground. The fingers and hands are burned from the frames and the ghastly skeletons. bereft of feet and ankles, stand on blackened bones in the ashes on the ground. Every vestige of hair and flesh are burned from the heads and the clinched teeth of the dead men show the great determination to endure their awful punishment in silence. with which the red men died. The scene is a fascinating one for the curious and has been visited by many people since yesterday morning.
 Additional details of the. horrible
 
 in the Seminole Nation, last Friday night, were received here to-day. Ac- cording to this information, the mob's work is not yet finished and will only be completed when four more Indians ! have been dealt with in the same man. ner as McGeisey and Simpson. The i citizens posse was securing the cOun- i try for the four men when the messen- ! ger left Maud, and it is probable that at | least part of the quartet have, by this time, paid the penalty decreed by the maddened populace.
 The crime which led to the burning of | the two men was committed on last | Thursday. Marcus McGeisey was the i owner of some property. On his land 1 lived white family named Simmons. During the absence of the husband on | Thursday, McGeisey went to the Sim | mons cabin and asked for a drink of water. Mrs. Simmons was at home 1 with her four small children. The In- | dian was given the water and he then ! asked for saddle.
 On being refused the saddle Nc ] Geisey grabbed the woman, who had | her baby in her arms, and dragged her out of the house. When the woman att 1 tempted to run away the Indian seized l a Winchester and dealt her a deadly ! blow on the head. crushing the skull. | The woman died instantly
 The murdered woman's husband did not return Thursday evening and the children were unable to remove the body into the house, from which 1t had ! fallen into the yard. The little ones stayed up and watched their dead mothers body until the bitter cold compelled them to relax their vigilance and seek shelter from the weather in the cabin. During the night the body was almost devoured by hogs.
 The news spread raDidlV Friday morning and the whole populace for twenty miles around was aroused. About twenty Indians were arrested. The oldest child told the crowd that McGeisey was the guilty man, and a posse of twenty determined men went to arrest him. Simpson was at Mc- Geiseys home when the posse arrived. and both were taken into custody. A rope was secured and the prisoners were strung up by the neck. On be- ing let down and given an opportunity to talk, both confessed to the crime and named four others who, they declared, were equally guilty. It developed that the Indians decided to get rid of cer- tain white settlers and that McGeisey had been hired to do the murder.
 Posses were at once sent in search of the other four Indians, and it was de- l cided to have a wholesale lynching as | soon as they could be captured. As night came on. however. and the other four were not captured, the citizens 1 changed their plan and determined to dispose of McGeisey and Simpson with out further delay. The feeling was so bitter against them that the crowd would not be satisfied with the ordi- nary method of lynching, and it was | voted to burn them at the stake. The victims were accordingly chained to a post oak tree. Fence rails and dry wood were then piled high about them and in few minutes the Indians were wrap ped in roaring flames, while the tim bers cracked beneath their feet.
 Never a word did the Indians utter while being roasted alive. They ap- parently saw that they were powerless to resist and endured their lot like stoics The crowd was composed of about thirty men and the work was done in a quiet but thorough and de- termined manner. Posses continued the search for the other Indians, and it is very probable that if captured they will be dealt with in a like manner. The man bringing this information states that there are grave fears of an outbreak among the Indians. and he believes bloodshed Is certain to follow.