The Burlington weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington [Iowa]) 1860-1876, 1862-11-22

Murder Of Emigrants on their way 70
the Salmon River :Mlnes.
From the b. Paul Press, NOV. Is.
A correspondent Of the Mankato Record,
VIM. H. Sergeant, who left that place in May
last, for the Salmon river mines, writing now
from Raft river, in Washington Territory,
August 18th, gives the following detailed &C
| count of the outrages and murders perpetra-
ted by the Sioux on his own and other parties
who had taken the same route to the Salmon
| river mines.
| 1t will be seen that several citizens Of st
| Paul are mentioned o. killed, or in the parties
exposed to these attacks Of the savage bandit
ii. The facts given are Of the utmost impor-
lance at this juncture, IS they substantiate the
theory ofa widespread hostile combination
4 Of the Sioux Of which the outbreak in Mime
sofa Was but part. It will be seen from
this account that the Sioux Indians Of the
plains and mountain passes in Western Me-
brssks and beyond, were engaged in general
massacre Of all the parties Of emigrsnts which
fell in their way, about the same time that the
bloody outbreak at Red Wood and Yellow
Medicine, in this State, occurred. The stimuli.
taneous news of these outrsges at such widely
distant points is suggestive, and may afford
q useful hint to those persons who the tele-
grab tells are ''making efforts 10 effect per-
manent peace with the conquered Sioux of
Minnesota"
after leaving the Platte river, we heard
many reports Of Indian outrages ahead of us,
and were told that it would be impossible for
US to travel the Lander road on account of
them. We came on and found the reports
much exaggerated, though the stock from the
- A~l hnn,n J~:v ~
Water river, and we saw several new graves
i Of emigrants killed by them, Still we saw no
| Indians all the way up the Sweet Water, nor
on Lander's road till within fifteen or twenty
miles of Fort Hall-not one, and We began to
be careless about the matter, though we were
in . longer train, commanded by Captain Bris-
tol, of Riron, Wis, and kept up strong
guard every night. We still apprehended no
trouble till near camping time on last Sunday
afternoon, the 9th inst. One Of our party, who
had gone ahead Of the train, came riding
back at full speed, and said the Indians had
attacked train of twelve wagons, killing some
of the people, and driving off all the stock ex-
cept one horse, and robbing the wagons Of all
the provisions, and that they were anxious for
| our train to 90 forward and camp with them.
An advance and rear guard was placed to our
train and We hurried forward till dark, pass
ing the battlefield, marked with blood and
strewn with all kinds of provisions, bedding,
wearing apparel, &C. Night came on and we
were obliged to 60 into camp for the night,
without learning anything further Of affais.-
By daylight, on the morning of the 10th, our
train was in motion, which brought US to their
camp in about three miles. We found there
had been an attack made lat first with arrows,
but continued with rifes) upon two trains SIM
| Mia hon un mill
were in motion-one Of twelve and the other
of eight wagons. The small train was from
Iowa City, and commanded by Capt. A. j.
Hunter. This train lost Capt. Hunter, killed,
and gentleman from New York city by the
name Of C. Bullwinkle. Gle had some cards
Of old date, showing former address to have
been 374 Sixth avenue.) The other train had
one man killed, Massimo Lippi, an Italian by
birth, from St. Paul, MINI. This man had
two partners from the same place, F. Bobert
and Giovanni Bonvenuti, the latter of whom
was slightly wounded in several places, but
Robert escaped without q scratch. They
started with D. w. c. Duuwell, and party,
from West St. Paul, but parted company with
them about one hundred miles below Fort
Larimie. They had one mule shot and the
other two taken off They also lost all their
bedding, wear ing apparel, and provisions,
/
-four and bacon. There are five wounded
one of them lady. When we got to the camp
there were two other large trains with the
sufferers-Captain Kennedy with thirty-six
wagons, and another from Iowa, called the
Newborn colony, with forty. We helped bury
the dead, and then party of some forty men
was formed to 60 in pursuit and if possible.
: recover the stock. Soon after q courier came
back with the intelligence that they had had a
fight on the bluffs, some four miles from the
, road, and had been beaten back, with loss OF
several killed and others woundad. Roose
welt and Kegerreis went to the war, and your
humble correspondent remained in the "Home
Guard" The result of this day was two kill.
; ed and recovered, and three missing, undoubt'
eddy killed. which we are forced to leave
Capt Kennedy is thought to be mortally
wounded. The Indians 1.-THE Snakes, were in
large force and it was not considered prudent
for us to stay longer in that camp, though VIC
number now nearly two hundred wagons
Judge we are now neatly forty-five miles from
from here, towards the fort. The whole fight
sums up FIVE killed, two missing and clever
wounded-one mortally. There were some,
thing like one hundred oxen two mules and
four horses lost. The Iowa City train had
mules and horses, but saved all except Rob-
erts'. The names of the killed yedterday
were Geo. w. Adams and Geo. Leeper, OF
Iowa. The missing were named William Mots
and Thos. Noonan. The wounded were Capt
Kennedy Miss Elizabeth Adams, Jas. Crawford,
Thos. j. Adams, Thos. Bradford, John Walk.
er, A. J. Cassidy, o. E. Sullivan, John Miller,
John Patterson, and Ephram Taylor,-all Of
Iowa. The party who carries this was on its
way to the States, but returned with our party
and will 60 up this river, via Salt Lake.
PARTIAL OFFICIAL VoTE OF IowA.-Tbe re-
turns from the Beard of Canvassers are mesgre
as yet; but we present what we have received
nho -hoIo pun,her of hallots cast by resden1