Show A WOUNDED KNEE K NEE WAIF THE st louis Gs globe democrat tells tella this pathetic incident of the wounded knee tragedy connected with the last lait indian war out oat of the hundreds of indians indiana who went into the field but three were saved according to the official report there thee were four however three da days a after the massacre the soldiers were burying burying the dead with which the held was grewo away at one side of the desolate plain which but a short time before echoed with the booming of shot and shell and the yell of a savage foe was a broken down wagon on which a couple of indian families had bad found refuge the wagon had been struck by a cannon ball at long range and all of the occupants were iving abad dead except the little she it was a girl was clinging to her dead mother her feet and one side aide of her face frozen she was taken away by the soldiers lers and given to the die care of an indian woman after a very little time she recovered from the effects of the exposure she was legally adopted by mrs colby of baltimore web neb and has been christened lanini which in the sioux tongue means the waif of the wounded knee mrs colba intends training the little one rescued from the jaws of death to a useful life |