. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. t at that timewere the wives of Capt. Heald and Lieutenant Helm and a few of thesoldiers, Mr. Kinzie and his family, and a few Canadian voyagers with theirwives and children. The soldiers and Mr. Kinzie were on the mostfriendly terms with the Pottawatomies and the Winnebagoes, the prin-cipal tribes around them, but they could not win them from their attach-ment to the British. THK TKTIRITOKY. 85 After the battle of Tippecanoe it was observed that some of the lead-ing chiefs became sullen, for some of their people had perish
. History of Greene county, Illinois: its past and present. t at that timewere the wives of Capt. Heald and Lieutenant Helm and a few of thesoldiers, Mr. Kinzie and his family, and a few Canadian voyagers with theirwives and children. The soldiers and Mr. Kinzie were on the mostfriendly terms with the Pottawatomies and the Winnebagoes, the prin-cipal tribes around them, but they could not win them from their attach-ment to the British. THK TKTIRITOKY. 85 After the battle of Tippecanoe it was observed that some of the lead-ing chiefs became sullen, for some of their people had perished in thatconflict with American troops. One evening in April, 1812, Mr. Kinzie sat playing his violin and hischildren were dancing to the music, when Mrs. Kinzie came rushing intothe house pale with terror, and exclaiming, • The Indians ! the Indians ! What? Where? eagerly inquired Mr. Kinzie. Up at Lees, killingand scalping, answered the frightened mother, who, when the alarm wasgiven, was attending Mrs. Burns, a newly-made mother, living not far :fNZlE HOUSJ?. Mr. Kinzie and his family crossed the river in boats, and took refuge inthe fort, to which place Mrs. Burns and her infant, not a day old, wereconveyed in safety to the shelter of the guns of Fort Dearborn, and therest of the white inhabitants fled. The Indians were a scalping party ofWinnebagoes, who hovered around the fort some days, when the}^ dis-appeared, and for several weeks the inhabitants \vere not disturbed byalarms. Chicago was then so deep in the wilderness, that the news of thedeclaration of war against Great Britain, made on the 19th of June, 1812,did not reach the commander of the garrison at Fort Dearborn till the 7thof August. Now the fast mail train will carry a man from New York toChicago in twenty-seven liouvs, and such a declaration might be sent,every word, by the telegi-apli in less than the same number of minutes.
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