(Names of women on reverse page) Women taken prisoners: Mrs. Heald Released. Mrs. Helm " Mrs. Holt } Mrs. Burns } Mrs. Leigh } Prisoners Mrs. Simmons } Mrs. Needs } Killed in action: Mrs. Corbin. Mrs. Heald's Negro woman. Children yet in captivity: Mrs. Leigh's 2, one since dead N D. Mrs. Burns' 2. Mrs. Simmons' 1. 13 children killed during the action. 11 citizens including Captain Wells. John Kinzie taken, but not considered as a prisoner of war. 54 Rank and file left the Garrison. THE MASSACRE AT CHICAGO[1] It was the evening of April 7, 1812. The children were dancing before the fire to the music of their father's violin. The tea table was spread, and they were awaiting the return of their mother, who had gone to visit a sick neighbor about a quarter of a mile up the river. Suddenly their sports were interrupted. The door was thrown open, and Mrs. Kinzie rushed in, pale with terror, and scarcely able to speak. "The Indians! the Indians!" she gasped. "The Indians? What? Where?" they all demanded in alarm. "Up at Lee's Place, killing and scalping!" With difficulty Mrs. Kinzie composed herself sufficiently to say that, while she was at Burns', a man and a boy had been seen running down with all speed on the opposite side of the river. They had called across to the Burns family to save themselves, for the Indians were at Lee's Place, from which the two had just made their escape. Having given this terrifying news, they had made all speed for the fort, which was on the same side of the river. All was now consternation and dismay in the Kinzie household. The family were hurried into two old pirogues that lay moored near the house, and paddled with all possible haste across the river to take refuge in the fort. All that the man and boy who had made their escape were able to tell was soon known; but, in order to render their story more intelligible, it is necessary to describe the situation. Lee's Place, since known as Hardscrabble, was a farm intersected by the Chicago River, about four miles from its mouth. The farmhouse stood on the west bank of the south branch of this river. On the north side of the main stream, but near its junction with Lake Michigan, stood the dwelling house and trading establishment of Mr. Kinzie. The fort was situated on the southern bank, directly opposite this mansion, the river and a few rods of sloping green turf on either side being all that intervened between them. The fort was differently constructed from the one erected on the same site in 1816. It had two blockhouses on the southern side, and on the northern a sally port, or subterranean passage from the parade ground to the river. This was designed to facilitate escape in case of an emergency or as a means of supplying the garrison with water during a siege.