CHAPTER II.
THE STORMING OF SINQUEFIELD.
When the news of the massacre at Kimball's reached Fort Glass, a detachment of ten men was sent out to recover the bodies, which they brought to Fort Sinquefield for burial.

The graves were dug in a little valley three or four hundred yards from the fort, and all the people went out to attend the funeral.

The services had just come to an end when the cry of "Indians! Indians!" was raised, and a body of warriors, under the prophet Francis, dashed down from behind a hill, upon the defenceless people, whose guns were inside the fort.

The first impulse of every one was to catch up the little children and hasten inside the gates, but it was manifestly too late.

The Indians were already nearer the fort than they, and were running with all their might, brandishing their knives and tomahawks, and yelling like demons.
There seemed no way of escape.