A man's miraculous survival of an Indian massacre near Smoky Hill River

“A man came into Salina, about fifty miles west from here, yesterday, and reported that another frightful massacre of white men by the Cheyenne Indians, had occurred near the head of Smoky Hill river a few days since, under the following circumstances :—Wallace’s train, with sixty men, were in camp, when a party of fourteen Indians came begging of the teamsters, who refused to give them anything. The Indians then fired upon them without effect; the teamsters returning the fire, killed eight of the aggressors. About eight o’clock that night, the camp was surrounded by some 200 Indians, who massacred 59 out of 63 men. The man who brought the news had an arrow head through his shoulder, and was also wounded in the hip. He claims to be one of the four men who escaped. — Millennial Star 29:9”