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Show BURNED IIIM UPIN THETEWT. Tiiat is h uainful, revolting story that the sou of a Philadelphia policeman police-man named Caldwell writes to his father from the scene of the Wounded Ku9 Indian fight, and that is reproduced repro-duced in the Philadelphia 2Y??es. lie sayi: Even after the Indians were wounded wound-ed and lying on the ground they would wait until they cot a chance and then would shoot a soldier in the back. There was one Indian who was lying in a tent. lie killed about four men before they found out Tvhere he was, but after they found him they shot him, and then tiiey burned him up in the tent. Tlu n some of the men went around and shot every Indian that was able to do any damage. I don't think there were any more than rive or six who got away out of the whole band. It was a clean sweep and a good one. They got what they wanted. Why did they burn him up in the tentV" That sounds more like cruel barbarian warfare than that of an enlightened en-lightened alleged Christian nation. Had the Indians been a "white foe of equal standing in the world, doing just what a white foe might have done; ' would the soldiers not have captured these wounded skirmishers and disarmed dis-armed them? Would they have wound- 1. ed them to death as they lay on the ground and then burned them? It is sickening t" think of this outrageous descent to the level of barbarians as ; "mMPmi sponsibility or obligation than they, by reason of our greater advantages. The War Department should by all means investigate this hideous outrage and court-martial the offenders if they : can be spotted. |