Three Truan Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory on January 17, 1891
Collection: Kiowa Indian School
Title
Three Truan Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory on January 17, 1891
Subject
Kingfisher, Oklahoma
Kiowa Indian School - Anadarko, Wichita Agency
Winfield, KS
Description
This article describes the circumstances surrounding the death of 3 students at the Kiowa Indian School at Anadarko. The 3 students left the school and did not make it back to their parent's camp before winter weather caused them to get lost. All 3 were found frozen to death 2 days later.
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Winfield Public Library, Winfield, KS USA
Date
1891-01-17
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Unknown, “Three Truan Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory on January 17, 1891,” Winfield Digital Collections, accessed June 23, 2026, https://winfield.digitalsckls.info/item/228.
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WINFIELD, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS
FROZEN TO DEATH Three Truant Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory
Kingfisher, Ok., Jan. 17.—There is trouble at the Kiowa Indian school at Anadarko, Wichita agency, between the Kiowa and Wichita reservations. It has grown out of the following facts: On the 9th inst. the principal of the school pun-ished a Kiowa pupil for some misconduct. Immediately afterward the boy persuaded two other Indian pupils to run away from school with him. Their absence was noticed that evening, but the principal supposed that they had gone to the camp of the refractory boy's parents, which was two miles distant. Saturday the teacher went in pursuit of the truants, but they were not to be found.
Their parents were not ified of their ab-sence, and Indian friends were started out in search of them. They were found Sun-day, the first one (about 10 years of age), about twenty miles distant, and the two others, three or four years older, were found within the next ten miles, all frozen. It is suppssed that the boys had got lost and were overtaken by the snow storm, which began falling about 2 o’clock Saturday morning, and perished.
As stated, they were going in the direc-tion of the Wichita mountains. As soon as the principal of the school learned of their sad fate, fearing the vengeance of the Indians, he left that locality for parts unknown, and has not since been heard from. A report was received, by the Min-co and Fort Sill stage driver, who came through Anadarko today, that 400 or 500 angry Indians were encamped in the vi-cinity of the agency, and are threatening to burn the school building, and to scalp the principal if he can be found. An ap-plication has been made to the command-ing officer at Fort Sill for troops to pre-vent an outbreak.
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Title
Three Truan Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory on January 17, 1891
Subject
Kingfisher, Oklahoma
Kiowa Indian School - Anadarko, Wichita Agency
Winfield, KS
Description
This article describes the circumstances surrounding the death of 3 students at the Kiowa Indian School at Anadarko. The 3 students left the school and did not make it back to their parent's camp before winter weather caused them to get lost. All 3 were found frozen to death 2 days later.
Creator
Unknown
Publisher
Winfield Public Library, Winfield, KS USA
Date
1891-01-17
Rights
Format
text/plain
Type
Clippings
Citation
Unknown, “Three Truan Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory on January 17, 1891,” Winfield Digital Collections, accessed June 23, 2026, https://winfield.digitalsckls.info/item/228.Text
WINFIELD, COWLEY COUNTY, KANSAS
FROZEN TO DEATH Three Truant Indian Boys Frozen to Death in the Territory
Kingfisher, Ok., Jan. 17.—There is trouble at the Kiowa Indian school at Anadarko, Wichita agency, between the Kiowa and Wichita reservations. It has grown out of the following facts: On the 9th inst. the principal of the school pun-ished a Kiowa pupil for some misconduct. Immediately afterward the boy persuaded two other Indian pupils to run away from school with him. Their absence was noticed that evening, but the principal supposed that they had gone to the camp of the refractory boy's parents, which was two miles distant. Saturday the teacher went in pursuit of the truants, but they were not to be found.
Their parents were not ified of their ab-sence, and Indian friends were started out in search of them. They were found Sun-day, the first one (about 10 years of age), about twenty miles distant, and the two others, three or four years older, were found within the next ten miles, all frozen. It is suppssed that the boys had got lost and were overtaken by the snow storm, which began falling about 2 o’clock Saturday morning, and perished.
As stated, they were going in the direc-tion of the Wichita mountains. As soon as the principal of the school learned of their sad fate, fearing the vengeance of the Indians, he left that locality for parts unknown, and has not since been heard from. A report was received, by the Min-co and Fort Sill stage driver, who came through Anadarko today, that 400 or 500 angry Indians were encamped in the vi-cinity of the agency, and are threatening to burn the school building, and to scalp the principal if he can be found. An ap-plication has been made to the command-ing officer at Fort Sill for troops to pre-vent an outbreak.
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