Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1857-02-19
Correspondence of the Mo-, Republican.
From the Plains.

4 E. From the Plains.
-4ryiual of the Santa Fs Mail Wagon
and Coaches left in the Saor-Kio,ct
Indians at War---Bent an danger MAJ
Train Returnea--Mr. Dodge nottoune
----Reported Killed Iroops----Protec
1 ti0a.
/ Westport, Jan. 81.
At late hour last night, the SAINTS
Fe mail train arrived, or so much of il
as held together. The passengers and
mail was brought through on horseback
the conductor of the train having been
compelled to leave the wagons behind
The mail was due on the 22d.
The train in charge ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
left Santa Fe on the first of January, and
at Cottonwood on the 9th, where they
encountered snow storm which lasted
till the night of the eth. On the sth
they came upon old snow and, from that
time, had to face severe northers, which
drifted the snow, and blewitinth faces
OF both men and passengers, so that all
suffered intensely. 1t was frequently
difficult to find the road, and often nee
essary to shovel snow away, and cut
| channels through the arroyas.
At the Willow Car of. the Cimarone.
the train passed sevenlodges of Kiowas,
consisting of boys, oldmenwomen, who
informed Mr.. Beck, from whom / have
obtained the interesting news herein
contained, that the braves and warriors
of.the tribe had gone to Bent's Fort to
rub him out" in their expressive Ian.
guage. When onward bound Mr.. Muse
was told that the Kiowas intended to
attack Bent. At the lower spring anoth-
err body of kiowas was encamped, and
they said the same; so that unless the
troops, which were sent to his aid, arri-
we'd i'll time to prevent it, Bent's Fort is
now in ruins, and, perhaps, his remains
under them. God forbid.
The train met with much difficulty in
their progress from the Lower Cimarone
Spring to the crossing of the Arkansas,
which was passed over on the ice. The
river was very low, and frozen to the
bottom. The small wagon of the train
was left between the Coon Greeks; and
before they reached the Pawnee Fork,
terrible snow storm was encountered.
The mules became weary and worn, the
corn and other feed was out, nearly all
the provisions for the passengers and
men had been consumed or lost; but for
tunately, at the Pawnee fort, the Janu-
airy mail was encamped, and the conduc-
tor furnished Mr.. Muse with provisions
and corn. Hearing how unusually Sc
we're was the winter, and the difficulties
and dangers of the trip, the conductor
Of the outward bound train returned
with the one bound in, but both were
compelled to leave the coaches at Wal
nut Creek, where they remain at pres
ent.
passengers and mail were brought
from that place to Council Grove in a
small wagon, the former having to walk
most of the way. From Council Grove
they travelled to Westport on mule-back,
which, doubtless, was rather rough
and tedious mode of getting along, as
the mules We're poor and jaded. Some
of the passengers and men are pretty
badly frosted. The passengers are Mr..
Beck, of Santa Fe, Mr.. Manuion of this
place, Mr.. Muse from Las Cazsus, and
Mr.. Shannon of the army, lately retired
The general news is highly interesting
Parties that went out to search for
Mr.. Dodge, the Indian Agent, carried
into captivity by the Apaches, had re-
turned without learning anything of his
fate. 1t was reported by the Ackama
Indians that the poor fellow had been
killed by the savages.
Col. Bonneville, Commander of the
Military Department for New Mexico,
sent detachments of troops on the 18th
of December, to the rescue of Bent.
Great anxiety was felt TO know if they
arrived in time to prevent the contem-
plated attack.
:. Col. Loring, at Fort Union, had or
ders to move against them, should they
begin hostilities.-There is but one way
to stop their depredations, and that is to
make war on the Indians and clean them
out.