This fiend in human shape, this man Cut Nose, presented a most forbidden [sic], horrifying spectacle. With his bloody thumb he had besmeared his naked body, with his blackened face and long bushy hair like a Zulu's, and a half nose (one of his nostrils was missing) he was by far the ugliest looking and most repulsive specimen of humanity I had ever seen. [Samuel Brown's Account, Through Dakota Eyes]
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The most repulsive-looking prisoner was
Cut-nose, some of whose acts have been detailed by Samuel Brown.
He was the foremost man in many of the massacres. The first and second
days of the outbreak he devoted his attention particularly to the Beaver
Creek settlement, and to the fugitives on that side of the river.
I will give a single additional instance of the atrocity of this wretch
and his companions. A part of settlers were gathered together for
flight when the savages approached; the defenseless, helpless women and
children, huddled together in the wagons, bending down their heads, and
drawing over them still closer their shawls. Cut-nose, while two others
held the horses, leaped into a wagon that contained eleven, mostly children,
and deliberately, in cold blood, tomahawked them all---cleft open the head
of each, while the others, stupefied with horror, powerless with fright,
as they heard the heavy dull blows crash and tear through flesh and bones,
awaited their turn. Taking an infant from its mother's arms, before
her eyes, with a bolt from one of the wagons they riveted it through its
body to the fence and left it there to die, writhing in agony. After
holding for a while the mother before this agonizing spectacle, they chopped
off her arms and legs, and left her to bleed to death. Thus they
butchered twenty-five within a quarter of an acre. Kicking the bodies
out of the wagons, they filled them with plunder from the burning houses,
and, sending them back, pushed on for other adventures.
[Heard, The History of the Great Sioux
Uprising and Massacre]