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Show BATTLE OF SAND CREEK. 89 ered by the philanthropists of the East, one of the greatest Indian massacres of modern times. But it brought peace and quiet to the terror-stricken people of Colorado, by crippling the power of the most numerous and hostile tribe of the plains, and men resumed their struggle for daily bread without fear of the savage." The following is quoted from a speech Colonel Chiving-ton made at the pioneer meeting, Sept. 14th, 1883: "There were many incidents on the field that would well bear mention. I will recite one: While sitting on my horse, glass in hand, about 2 o'clock p. m., I saw an officer fall from his horse. I galloped up and found that he had been wounded with an arrow, and ordered two men near by to assist and'protect him till the ambulance came to take him to the hospital tent. One of the soldiers,- speaking excitedly, said, 'Look out, Colonel, the same squaw that shot the Major will shoot you,' and before I could dismount and make my horse a breast-work, an arrow came whizzing past and cut the rim of my left ear, so that it bled freely. At this, one of the soldiers brought his carbine to an aim, saying, ' If that squaw shows her head above the bank again, I will shoot the top off it.' His commander expostulated with him, saying, ' I would not waste my powder by killing a woman.' At this instant another arrow flew through the air and pierced the arm of the highly civilized commander about four inches below the shoulder joint. I had all my life some doubt about instantaneous conversions, but here it was as clear-cut as was ever witnessed at an old-fashioned Methodist camp-meeting. Before, it was the other officer who was shot; now it was himself. Before, he would not shoot a woman; now he fairly shrieked, ' Shoot the d d b h!' and the order was obeyed. The squaw was shot, and I approved it. If the fools in the East and elsewhere who are shouting themselves hoarse could only have turned loose upon them for a little time, a band of hostile Cheyennes, and I could witness the scene, I would be more than compensated for all the mean things they have said and are saying about me, and the troops who were under my command at Sand Creek. "The number of Indians killed, as near as I could estimate from the reports of the company and battallion commanders, was from 500 to |