The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1864-09-02
Indian Atrocities.
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81. Losts, Sept, 1.-LAie sdvicas from Fort
Reilly say thst the Indisn outrages have Increased
the paai Ven days- On u,s leah trnin frvn Santa
Fe to Lcavcnworth WAS STOCKED at Cimmerisn
springs Ten usn lied. sod IN the ssck captured.
The train was abandoned. 0n.the s1s,, 800 Indians
attacked several trains. including one belonging 10
the Gcverninsnt, sixty miles wess Of Fort I~rncd.
one man was killed, and nearly oil the stock cap
tured Large bands II Indians are congrcgasing In
the ncighborhood Of Fort Lyon, and outrn1es
Of daily occurrence. A party corning within sight
or the fort, was pursued by Major wynkoop, and
three or four OF them killed. Several unprotected
settlements between Fort Lyon and the hase Of the
mountains are now receiving tho attention Of tho
Indians. Lieut.. Booth, Of The 1ith KAnsAs, sent 10
the relief n the citizens Of Republic and Clay
Counties reports finding Indians Mar .
srout OF 100 miller. lie Is now en-
camped al Clay Centrr. on Me Republican
Fork. The section Of country travcrsci
by the snvsScs, extends from the Platte TO the Ar
kansas River, about too mile sfrom east 70 wes,.
Our prcscut force 10 entirely insicqusto for the
work before II, and imulcds,e Reinforcement Ia an
solutsly needed. Over 1000 persons have bccu
murdered on the Platte route, and 100 on the Ar
kansas tho head waters Of the smoky Hill and Re-
publc,n Forks and $3oo,oo0 worth o. property
destroyed or captured. besides 1900 horses, SEQ
mules and 1900 oxen. Idaho and Montana arc
said 70 swarm with dissHectcd and disloyal men,
II Is estimated that 10000 men Of this class have
gone there in the pas, year and . half. The Mexi-
cans sre very uneusy alony the entire Ia untan
range. Rebel and Mormon Agents sre said 10
have been At work among them.
TOY kaa.)
The st. Josph mo. uyRALp ssys: 1--WE con.
verred yesterday with . guntleman who loft Fort
kearncy lew days aga havinr come in by way Of
Onahs, and from thence by boat 10 this city.
General Curtis, with several hundred troops, Is
now at Fort Kearnev md great sctvty Ia manfcs.
ted In the preparations for the cnmra,gn against the
Indians. General Mitchell will head iorces In
tho field. Colonels Jenniron of Kansas. and Iiv.
In, ston of Nebraska, will I've under him. The Over
land Mail Company have removed most of their
stock TO Fort kearney for protection and bctwcen
that port and Denver there are but few white IN
hsbi,ar,s left. All have gathered into ue two f1r
tilted posts letween kcsrney and Dcpvor-Fort-
Curtis and Columbus. Tho chief ~ the Paw
pcea has agreed 10 sssist General Curtis
| " put down the savage outbreak. The
various tribes OF the Sioux, who have persuaded
acme few ~ the Cheycnncs to Cooperate with
them. Their attacks have hcen rapid and heavy,
and having thus far mot with but littlc oppOs ii on
they arc inflated with the dcx that no siccessfu
| opposition can lie made ~ them. Terror has beer
struck 70 the hearts u the unnrrned settlers, and
| along the great overland route wherc r,-cnily oil
WAS life, energy and hustle, IL now dcsola,ir
| Tho overland stages have now stopped running
Nail communication with tho West Is etopped al
the present. Mail communication with tho Ess
by overland stage line IL also cut OF. All along ~
road from L,tlr Blue to Fort Kcarney hundreds o
dsscrted wagons NAV 10 secn, the mrn in chg1,s