The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-04-23
MORNING JOURNAL COURIER 1906

Turtle, descended from the sand hills in all the fury of tornado, uttering their wild war whoops, and of all the caravan young Robert McGee alone came out alive to tell the story of the massacre.
 Every individual was not dead and scalped as he lay or sat at the mess. table.
 The mules, of course went to swell the herd of the savages, but the wagons were destroyed by fire, their canvas covers cut up into breech clouts and the flour with which the caravan was load ed emptied from it's sacks on the prarie.
 Young McGee was attacked by Little Turtle himself and knocked to the ground by one blow of his tomahawk. As he lay there partically stunned and bleeding, Little Turtle fires two arrow into his body, pinning him to the earth. Then, in transport of fiendishness, he took Roberts own pistol and shot him, the bullet lodging in his backbone. Not quite satisfied that he had made good job of it, he stopped over the prostrate boys body and, running his knife square inches of his scalp, trimming it off just back of the ears.
 Believing his vicqm to be dead by this time, the chief abandoned him, but others of the band in passing hacked him with their knives and poked holes into him with their long lanoes. All the others in the train were long since dead, killed outright, and their bodies mutilated.
 After the savages had completed their work they rode, Whooping and yelling away and the troops that had witness ed the whole affair frof their vantage | ground came upon the scene to inyesti- gate and learn whether the Sioux had learn whether the Sioux had been pro- of the caravan. The officer in com mand was very properly court-martial- led and dismissed in disgrace from the service. He never gave any satisfao- tory reason for his outrageous and cowardly conduct,
 The only part the troops took in the affair was to bury the dead When they attempted to put young McGee under the ground they found q very lively corpse despite the fact that he was scalped and had received fourteen distinct wounds, and one of which would have terminated the life of the ordinary man.
 After interring the dead the soldiers hastened to Fort Larned, thirty miles distant, where young McGee was placed under the care of the post sur geon. It was three months before he was able to be moved from there. Dur ing that time he had fair command of his mental faculties, and was sufi- ciently strong to tell all the incidents of the attack.
 Barret, the owner of the caravan, who had remained in Leavenworth, on hearing what had befallen his property put in a claim for big damages from the Government and was awarded a sum which made him independent for life, but he persistently refused to do anything for the sole survivor. | Ih1GG6 5 Itclliiip NGlC lttlN bSAQhC NlAS President, and in october, 1864, MT. Lincoln sent him a letter and a pass by special envoy, directing him to come to Washington as soon as he was able to travel, and stating that he himself would see that McGee's wrongs were lighted.
 When McGee had recovered suffi- ciently to move about, his mind, which had been remarkably clear up to that time, began to cloud, and he became possessed of a mania to hunt Sioux to l death In one of his frenzed spells the pass and the letter from President ] Lincoln were stolen from him, and neither the President nor the army took any further notice of him.
 For dozen years after receiving his injuries McGee was a wanderer, and when it was discovered that Little Tentle had been wiped out, 1t was said that the biggest notch on McGee' gun bGsrel eommemorated the full measure of his revenge, a long mark for the chief and nine shorter ones fol the subordinate head men who had bitten the dust at the command of the unerring rife that never failed to exc cute it's mission when pointed at a Brules breast.
 After Little Turtle had been sent to
 the happy hunting grounds McGee's mind began to regain it's normal equili- brium until at last he once more be- came perfectly sane
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