Chapter VII. Contemporaneous Reports.--Progress of

the press since 1812; Niles' Weekly Register our main authority; 113:--First published statement of the massacre; the schooner Queen Charlotte; 114:--Absurd story regarding Mrs. Helm; 115:--Still more absurd story, signed Walter Jordan; 116:--Possible leaven of truth; 117:--Nine survivors reported arrived at Plattsburgh from Quebec; 118:--Familiar names; harrowing tales they told; 119:--Pitiable fate of Mrs. Neads and her child, Kinzie family return to Chicago, where the bones of the massacre victims are buried by the soldiers sent to build the new fort; 120:--Letter from Fernando Jones; 121:--Solution of the Indian problem treated; 122:--Present condition of the Pottowatomies; 123:--Wonderful progress in five generations; speculations concerning the renewed interest in these old tales; 124:--Sculptured mementoes of the past slowly being provided by public-spirited citizens; Lambert Tree, Martin Ryerson and EH Bates; George M. Pullman's splendid bronze group of the massacre; 126:--Eugene Hall's verses at the unveiling of the Block-house Tablet in 1881.

APPENDIX

=A.= Pointe De Saible.--First settler, 100 years after Marquette etc.; 133:--Col. de Peyster mentions him in 1778 in his "Miscellanies," Burns's verses to De Peyster; 134:--De P. also mentions George Rogers Clark, 135:--De P's verses; 136:--His foot-notes, naming Chicago; what is known about De Saible; 137:--E. G. Mason's remarks about him and Shaubena; 138--Perish Grignon (Wis. Hist. Soc. Collection) on the same subject; 139:--Guesses as to the character and fortunes of De Saible; 140:--"_Point de Sable_," no sand.

=B.= Fort Dearborn Records at Washington.--Probable reason why records are scanty; 143:--Letter from Gen. Dearborn, Secretary of War; statement compiled from the adjutant-general's records; memorandum of the destruction; order for rebuilding; successive commanders; evacuation of 1823; 144:--Re-occupation in 1828; Major Whistler ordered to Fort Dearborn; final evacuation in 1836; 145:--Demolition of fort in 1856; old paper found, dating from first fort; familiar names; 146:--One building survived until the great fire of 1871; the Waubansa stone; 147:--Daniel Webster speaks from its summit; its later vicissitudes; 148:--Who were the victims of Aug. 15, 1812? Oblivion the usual fate of martyrs; 149:--Muster and pay-roll of 1810, the last now existing; 150.

=C.= The Whistler Family.--Gardner's Military Dictionary gives items of old John Whistler, the Burgoyne soldier; suggestion that in Heald's place he might have avoided the disaster; his descendants; Mrs. William Whistler and her daughter, Gwenthlean Whistler Kinzie; Mrs. General Sheridan; 153:--Mrs. Whistler's visit to Chicago in 1875, 154:--Her reminiscences; 155:--Whistler descendants in the army; 156.

=D.= The Kinzie Family.--John Kinzie's origin and youth; 157:--The Forsyths, Blanchard's story of the McKenzie girls; 158:--Margaret, mother of some Kinzies and some Halls; Elizabeth, mother of some Clarks and some Clybourns; 160:--The bend sinister; John marries Eleanor (Lytle) McKillip and comes to Chicago; 161:--Extent of his trade; his continued relations with Detroit; 162;--His daughter-in-law, Juliette (Magill) Kinzie, writer of Wau-Bun, return after the massacre; 163:--His losses; pathetic letter to his son, John Harris Kinzie; 164:--His papers burned in 1871; 165:--Inestimable services as treaty-maker; their partial recognition in treaty of 1838; 165:--His hospitality; 166:--Visit of Gov. Cass; 167:--Winnebago scare; 168:--End of the old pioneer; Hubbard's narrative of his closing moments; 169:--Disappearance of the ancient mansion; 170:--Mrs. Nellie Kinzie Gordon; 171:--Heroic death in battle of John Harris Kinzie, Jr.; 172.

=E.= The Wells and the Heald Families.--William Wells's captivity among the Indians; Wa-nan-ga-peth, daughter of Me-che-kan-nah-quah, and her Wells descendants; 173:--William fighting on the Indians' side; Rebekah (Wells) Heald's story of her reclamation of her "Indian uncle;" 174:--His parting with his red father-in-law; later history of Me-che-kan-nah-quah, or Little Turtle; his presentation to Washington; 175:--Rebekah meets Nathan Heald at Fort Wayne; 176:--A. H. Edwards's anecdotes about Captain Wells; 177:--Family feeling of Wells's descendants; the Heald massacre relics shown; 179:--Masonic record of Nathan Heald; his letter of Oct. 13, 1813, reporting the massacre; 180:--Letter on official business, May 18, 1812; 181:--Remarks thereon; 182:--Death of his niece, Mrs. Edwards, while this book is printing; 183.

=F.= John Lalime.--Portents of the massacre; rivalry between government and civilian traders; 185:--Factions in the garrison; traits of John Lalime; 186:--His letters; retort of Main Poc; Miss Noke-no-qua; 187:--Lalime's attack on John Kinzie; Gurdon Hubbard's letter about it; Victoire (Mirandeau) Porthier's story; 189:--Garrison acquits Kinzie but buries Lalime in sight of the old house; 190:--Discovery of a skeleton in 1891; 191:--Reasons for thinking it that of Lalime; 193:--Facts learned from Fernando Jones, Judge Blodgett, Hon. John C. Haines and others; St. James' church-yard; 193:--Letters from Fernando Jones, Hon. John C. Haines and Doctors Hosmer and Freer; 194-195.

=G.= Reminiscences of A. H. Edwards.--Letter to John Wentworth; story of a girl who was one of the scalped children; bare spot on her head; 197:--She the daughter of John Cooper who is named in the muster-roll; 198:--Married a Detroiter named Farnum; 199.

=H.= Billy Caldwell, the Sauganash.--His traits, good and bad; 201:--He and Shabonee write a letter about General Harrison; 202.

=I.= Farewell War-Dance of the Indians.--Treaty of 1833; Latrobe's impressions of Chicago; 203:--Ex-Chief-Justice Caton describes the war dance; 205:--"Farewell Indians!" 206.

=K.= The Bronze Memorial Group.--Where the massacre occurred; cumulative testimony identifying the spot; letters from Mrs. Henry W. King, Isaac N. Arnold, A. J. Galloway, Mrs. Mary Clark Williams, and Robert G. Clarke; 207-210:--The design of the group, and the designer, Carl Rohl-Smith: lucky chance gives two savages, "Kicking Bear" and "Short Bull," to serve as models for the figures; characteristic bearing of the savage models; bas-reliefs for pedestal, the fort interior, the evacuation, the fight, death of Captain Wells; dedicatory inscription; 211:--Memorial fit to stand for centuries; 212.

List of Illustrations; 15.

Alphabetical Index; 213.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Flag of distress; 14. Chicago in 1813; 26. Jesuit missionary; 53. Me-che-kan-nah-quah; 55. Gen. Anthony Wayne; 56. Wm. Whistler; 58. Mrs. Wm. Whistler; 59. Charles Jouett; 62. Redcoat of 1812; 65. Old Fort Dearborn; 67. Cabin in the Woods; 71. Kinzie mansion in 1812; 73. Human Scalp; 75. Indian Warrior; 77. Squaw; 86. Black Partridge Medal; 91. William Wells; 94. Chief Robinson; 101. New fort, River and Kinzie House (Wau-Bun); 111. Massacre tree; 18th St.; 113. Second Block-house in its last days; 120. Block-House Tablet; 125. Beaubien fiddle and Calumet; 127. Emigrants with wagon; 129. Cock crow; 133. Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La-Salle; 134. George Rogers Clark, late in life; 135. Shaubena; 130. Map of new Harbor; 148. Drummer; 148. Interior of Fort (1850), Lake House in distance; 145. Waubansa stone and Great Fire relics; 147. Wild onion; 151. Gwenthlean (Whistler) Kinzie; 153. James Kinzie (autograph); 160. Samuel Miller (autograph); 161. Juliette Kinzie; 163. John Harris Kinzie in 1827; 164. John Kinzie (autograph); 165. John Harris Kinzie late in life; 166. Robert Allen Kinzie, 167. Kinzie Mansion as given in Wau-Bun; 168. Mrs. Nellie (Kinzie) Gordon; 171. John Harris Kinzie Jr.; 172. Indian Mother and pappoose; 173. Darius Heald with massacre relics; 179. Massacre tree and Pullman house; 184. Cyclone; 185. Skeleton; 186. The late Calumet Club-House; 196. Sauganash Hotel; 200. Me-tee-a, a signer of the treaty of 1821; 203. Indian War-dance, August 18, 1885; 204. Chi-ca-gou; 213.

The Chicago Massacre of 1812

IN TWO PARTS AND AN APPENDIX.