. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . ay their cnielty and satisfytheir desire for blood. Referring to the terrible bntchery of theprisoners, in an acc»»iint given by ^Irs. Helm, she says: An oldequaw, infuriated by the loss of friends or excited by the sanguin-ary scenes around her, seemed possessed of demoniac fury. Sheseized a stable-fork and ass
. History of Pike county, Illinois; together with sketches of its cities, villages and townships, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history; portraits of prominent persons and biographies of representative citizens. History of Illinois ... Digest of state laws .. . ay their cnielty and satisfytheir desire for blood. Referring to the terrible bntchery of theprisoners, in an acc»»iint given by ^Irs. Helm, she says: An oldequaw, infuriated by the loss of friends or excited by the sanguin-ary scenes around her, seemed possessed of demoniac fury. Sheseized a stable-fork and assaulted one miserable victim, who lav HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. 00 groaning and writhing in the ai^onies of his wounds, aggravated bythe scorching beams of the sun. With a delicacy of feeling, scarcelyto have been expected under such circumstances, Wan-bee-nee-wanstretched a mat across two poles, between me and this dreadful was thus spared, in some degree, a view of its horrors, altliou<,^h Icould not entirely close my ears to the cries of the sufferer. Thefollowing night live more of the wounded prisoners were toma-hawked. KINZIE FAMILY SAVED. That evening, about sundown, a council of chiefs was held todecide the fate of the prisoners, and it was agreed to deliver them. OLD KINZIE HOUSE, to the British commander at Detroit. After dark, many warriorsfrom a distance came into camji, who were thirsting for blood, andwere determined to murder the prisoners regardless of the terms ofsurrender. Black Partridge, with a few of his friends, surroundedKiuijies house to protect the inmates from the tomahawks of thebloodthirsty savages. Soon a band of hostile warriors rushed bythem into the house, and stood with tomahawks and seal ping-knives,awaiting the signal from their chief to commence the work of death. OG HISTORY OF ILLINOIS. Black Partridge said to Mrs. Kinzic: We are doing ever}tliin<rin our power to save you, but all is now lost; you and jour friends,togetlier with al
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