It nearly passed through the body of Lieutenant Moore, killing him instantly.

The woman made no attempt to evade the penalty which she knew weald follow this act.

In an instant twenty bullets pierced her body, and she fell dead at the door of the house.
The infuriate soldiers rushed in and shot the defenceless warriors mercilessly, until every one was fatally wounded or dead.

They then set the house on fire and burned it up, with the forty-six warriors in it.
It mattered not to them whether the flames consumed the flesh of the living or of the dead.
There was something very remarkable in the stoicism which the Indians ever manifested.

There was a bright-looking little Indian boy, not more than twelve years of age, whose arm was shattered by one bullet and his thigh-bone by another.