. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. stav;i <ipregnancy, was tomahawketl, scalpetl. cut o])en, and had the childtaken out and its head cjt off. Tiiniiiig to tile latest of the force, dated1810, we identify among; these .stirvivurs the names ofDyson Dyer, Nathan Edst)n, Paul Grummow. James \*anHome, James Corbin and Plielini Corbin. .\mong theperished, August Mott. John Xeads and Iltigh this sad list must be added four still more pitiable vie- 120 THE CHICAGO MASSACRE OF l8l2. tims—the wife and unborn child of Phelim Corbin, andt
. The Chicago massacre of 1812 : with illustrations and historical documents. stav;i <ipregnancy, was tomahawketl, scalpetl. cut o])en, and had the childtaken out and its head cjt off. Tiiniiiig to tile latest of the force, dated1810, we identify among; these .stirvivurs the names ofDyson Dyer, Nathan Edst)n, Paul Grummow. James \*anHome, James Corbin and Plielini Corbin. .\mong theperished, August Mott. John Xeads and Iltigh this sad list must be added four still more pitiable vie- 120 THE CHICAGO MASSACRE OF l8l2. tims—the wife and unborn child of Phelim Corbin, andthe unhappy Mrs. Neads, to whom death must have beenwelcome after seeing her little one tied to a tree to keepit from following her and crying for victuals. Mrs. John Kinzie, in a sketch of the life of her hus-band (Chic. Hist. Society, July ii, 1877. Fergus No. 10) says: In 1816 the Kinzie family returned to their desolated home inChicago. The bones of the murdered soldiers, who had fallen fouryears bef3re, were still lying unburied where they had fallen. The. THE SECOND BLOCK HOUSE IN ITS LAST DAYS. troops who rebuilt the fort collected and interred these coffins which contained them were deposited near the bank ofthe river, which then had its outlet about at the foot of MadisonStreet. The cutting through the sand-bar for the harbor caused thelake to encroach and wash away the earth, exposing the long rangeof coffins and their contents, which were afterward cared for andreinterred by the civil authorities. There is good reason to believe that Mrs. Kinzie wasmistaken in thinking that the coffins exposed on the lake Ki:iM)KTS. shore by llie action ofllir waves, rontaiiicd llio Ixxlies ofthose wlio perished in iIk- massacre. The lort l)uryin;j-groiiiul certainly was al tlic i)hice inchcaled. and the ex-posed colVms doubtless contained the- hodits ol thosehuiiccl in that ground; hut that does not indndi-tjje mas-sacre \ictinis. Mr.
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