Began fiercely with the hotchkiss guns raining

began fiercely with the Hotchkiss guns raining
fragmentation shells into the village at a combined rate
of 200 or more rounds a minute. The 500 well armed
Cavalry Troopers were well positioned using crossing
fire to methodically carry out what is known as the
Wounded Knee Massacre.

Almost immediately most of the Sioux Indian men were killed.
A few Sioux Indians mustered enough strength barehanded to
kill 29 soldiers and wound 39 more. The bravery of these
people was to no avail for as long as an Indian moved, the
guns kept firing. Unarmed Sioux Indian Women and children
were mercilessly massacred. A few ran as far as three miles
only to be chased by the long knives of the Cavalry and put to
death

Officers and men were revengeful and
trigger-happy.. The Hotchkiss guns were
pouring shells into groups of mothers and
children.

Of the original 350 Indians one estimate stated
that only 50 survived. Almost all historical
statistics report over 200 Indians being killed on
that day. Government figures only reported the
Indian dead as 64 men, 44 women and girls,
and 18 babies. All of the bodies were buried in
one communal grave.