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Show SPECTRES OF THE GHOST DANCE. Th. Indian.' V.ralon of th. Wound. d Kne. Slanghtar. Washington, Feb. 12 The Indian conference closed yesterday, aud the Indians start home Friday. Tbe feature fea-ture of the day's talk was the story of the fight at Wounded Knee. Turning Hawk said at a given time, when the men had delivered up their guns, they were separated from their families and taken to a certain spot. A crazy man, a young man of very bad influence, fired his gun, killing an officer, The other Indians began drawing knives, although they were exhorted from all sides to desist, and the firing began immediately im-mediately on the part of the soldiers. All the men who were in the bunch were killed right there, and those who escaped that first fire got into a ravine, nnd as they went along the ravine for a long distance they were pursued on all sides by the soldiers and shot down. Tho women had no firearms to fight with. They were standing off at a different dif-ferent place, and when the tiring began those of the men who escaped the first volley went in one direction up the ravine, aud the women went in a different direction through an open field, but met the same late as the men. American Horse said that wlien the tiring began the people who were standing stand-ing immediately around the young man who fired the first shot wore killed and then the soldiers turned their guns on tbe women, who were in the lodges, standing there under a flag of truce. Of course, as soon as they were fired upon they. lied. There was a woman with an infant In her arms killed as she almost touehed the flag of truce. Right near the flag another was shot down. Her child, not knowing that its mother was dead, was still nursing, and that was a very sad sight. Women as they were fleeing with babies on their back's were killed together, and women heavy with child were also killed. After most of the Indians had been killed the cry was made that all those not killed or wounded should come forth and they would be safe. Little boys who were not wounded came out of places of refuge, and as soon as they came in sight a number of soldiers surrounded sur-rounded and butchered them. Commissioner Morgan said to the interpreter: in-terpreter: "I wish you would say to him that these are very serious charges to make against the arny. I do not want any statements that are not absolutely abso-lutely true, and I want any one here that feels the statements are too strong to correct them." American Horse replied: "Of course it would have been all right if only the men were killed, but the fact of the killing of women, and more especially young boys and girls, who are to make the future strength of the Indian people peo-ple wo feel very seriously." Commissioner Does American Horse know these tbings of his own personal knowledge or has he been told them? American Horse I was not there at the time or before the burial of the bodies, but I did go there with some ludian police and many people from the agency, and we went through the battlefield and saw where the bodies were from the track of blood. |