The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1906-10-01

"'
was ~ lt don
from fnFter nger,
on the fternpon o. July 7S-it bad
been an exec sirelE hot llly-the CARE
van went into camp AZ an early hour.
The escorting troops stacked arms
abour half q mile distant, but 10 fun
view Of the train The me7 ahould
have kept good lookout FOR sur
| prises- probably did In Way-but
there WINS a feeling OF secrrity Ia the
knowledGe that a regular attack BY
savnges Is rarely made until the early
hours OF the morning. VIXEN sleep Is
heaviest
About 4 O'Clock, however band OF
Bruie Sioux. under the lead OF Little
Turtle. descended from the sand hills
In all the fury OK a tornado, utterinS
their wild war whoops. and of all the
small army OF men employed by the
caravan young Robert MCGEE alone
came out alive TO tell the story OF the
massacre. Every individual was shot
dead and scaIped as he lay or sat at
the mess table. The mules, Of course,
went to swell the herd Of the sayaEes,
but the wagons we're destroyed by hre,
their canvns covers cut UP into breeeh-
cloth and the -four with which the car
avian was loaded emptied from its
sacks on the prairIe-
Young MCGEE VS. attacked by Little
Turtle himself and knocked to the
ground by one blow OF his tomahawk.
As he lay there. partially stunned and
bleeding. Little Turtle fired two ar
rows into his body, pInning him to the
earth. Then, In u transport OF hend-
fshness he took Roberts own pistol
and shot him. the bullet lodging In his
backbone Not quite satisfied that he
had made "a good Job of It, he stopped
over the boys PROSTATE body and, rum
ming his knife around his lead, lifted
sIxty-four square inches OF his scalp.
trimming It or just back of the cars
Believing his victim to be dead by
that time, the chief abandoned him.
but others of the band in passing hack
ed him with their knives and poked
holes into him with their long lances.
All the others in the train were long
since dead killed outright. and their
bodies mutiIated.
After the sHvaGes had completed
their work they ro.je whooping and
yelling. awsy. and the troops that had
Witnessed thc wG4,' = Iair from their
vlntaEc -.l slld 60 upou the scene
10 iIyeat z,-e aol a.Ea whether the
Sioux had been i8s5-er!- nc, ~ not by |
the i'll rated men OF the caravan. The |
officer in couSnand was very properly /
court martaled and dismissed In dis /
grace from the service lie never gave I
any satisfactory reason for his outre- |
Eeous and cowardly conduct
The only part the troops took in the |
affair was to bury the dead. When I
they attempted to put young AIcGee /
under the ground tney found very I
lively corpse, despite the fact that lie 1
was scalped and had received fourteen |
distinct wounds, any one of which /
would have terminated the life OF an
ordinary man.
After inter-iug the dead the soldiers
FASTENED to Fort Larned. thirty miles
distant. where young MCGEE was
placed under the care of the post sur
gaon 1t was three months before he
was able TO be moved from there.
During that time he had fair com
mand of Lis mental faculties and vas
sufficiently strong to tell all the Incl
Ients of the attack.
The owner of the caravan. who had
remained in Lehvenworth. on hearing
what had befalIen his property put in
n claim for big damages from the gov
eminent and was awarded a sum
which made him independent for life,
but he persistently refused to do any
thing for the sole survivor.
McGee's claims were laid before the
president. aud in October. 1864, Mr..
Lincoln sent him a letter and a pass by
special envoy. directing him to come to
as soon as he was able to
travel aud stating that he himself
would see that AIcGee's wrongs were
righted.
When MCGEE had recovered sufi-
ciently to move about, his mind, which
had been remarkably clear up to thar
time, began to cloud, and he became
possessed of mania to hunt Sioux to
the death. In one of his frenzied spells
the pass aud the letter from President
Lincoln were stolen from him, and
neither tue president nor the army took
any further notice of him.
For n dozen years after receiving his
injuries McGee was n wanderer. and
when Il was discovered that Little
Turtle had been wiped out 1t was said
that the biggest notch on McGee's gun
barrel commemorated the full measure
Of his revenge, long mark for the
chief and nine shorter ones for the
headmen who had bitten
the dust at the command of the I'm.
arrIuE rifle that never failed to execute
It's mission when pointed Mt a Brule's
breast
After Little Turtle had been sent to
the happy hunting grounds NIcGee's
mind began to regain its normal equ.
ibrium until Mt last he once more he.
came perfectly sane.-Kansas City
Star.