HOW IT FEELS TO BE SCALPED.

Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 132, 22 September 1876, Page 3

HOW IT FEELS TO BE SCALPED.

'lliere survived! here ott Friday evening's insas Pacific train a party of three per-, ins,, direct Iron*' Bead wood City, the new Ming down in the Black Hilts. Luarof that (ano of t.he party hart been stint I scalped by Indians, a -reporter sought mi one and obtained the following inter* ting- facts i—" Merman Ganzio's .head #w the centre of"the forehead back'to 10 crown of the head, b at present one* jss of aoras. The hair iiaa l«pen et-.t' ray by the surgeons tn sramiw, bat tlio |>«ar-sh»ped patch made r the sua'p'rij:-knife b thus made ail the ore d'bttnufs. The poor fell*i.w»ha» htien Hospital since the 13th «f April. CJatusit* ill,descrying- hi» mishap : * Vow sew, we SEu into the valby of Hut eelc, on oar, way to PWt Laramie, when 1 thought *we saw Im-lians coming down e creelt few the right, Instead of erntvpg: there, \i?» fcfrlmghfc ft safer to water mtr uclc and go on into the hitla and make a !yeamp tn the bushes, it' we could n«t Itjpi-- Ktcgiving Water <Jreek, where a la rye i%ei"»i::igUlie.ts were reported. I had en stfnlSffiiit ahead nj> hill, jtuvt where the f t&im# -fitft stands, by the- road, ami tli a named Kountxe, from Omaha, (l/liaOUHwn to wait for wagons, which re slowly coming ttp ottt of the rattey. *»«n the wagon.'* reached tw I started on mo-fch-rua&h; the rooks and pine bit.*',us - seeK ft gt.n.l vamp. A few hundred ffda on, I looked down a ravine ji&fe Pijjht and saw five trortnted rfians ride- aprons the valley. I started go back t<\ the tram, when at least doaen JiuUsh* ran at me ottt *>f the Rshy sad, yon bet, I ran and fi*>Uerw<t ' help.. In a mi».ute more two or three them shot at tne. I felt a sharp, sti»?g- - pain in nvy left !«•?. and another in ' left shoulder ; and 1 fetf. Then tliey % upon me in a mirutW. and one of %i put lib knee in my back, while 'other hit me a etip wit?* a elvtbor a butt : & gun.. I don't lcno w whteh, as I had > time, to think. AH I knew was,. I was i®B scalped; my hair vtm feeing held £&t.. I felt a hot, stinging pnm a!! wnd the top- of my head—beiruf torn or»t F the roots —it was too roach ; *1 eonlun't ! wd it; 1 —at least, 1 thought i did. 1

Hut my sealp was saved jnst n« it was being t»-m ofF. The tavs at the wagons hint aofiti me running: saw the- Indians, and came on—thirteen *>f them —and got rip juat it* time t*> prevent the r«l rIcWU (In: diing their *ork. V « Indians. ."3 xv -it as my friends, thmr. T • ■■■ -i-.-ad. fine I eame to again, and my waff laid f>aek again. It wasonty half torn oil, as yotn will ae«r, awl i* growing again n bel'y.' The poor fe!E*>w was taken t*> Fort Laramie, and revived every alien* tion. and, as soon as he was able, started for his parents' home tn Milwaukee. He is the first white man who has felt the • frijuris ' hand in his hair this year who has lived to tell how it feels.—Kntw* Ti.ni.r.i.