North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1867-05-15
Was there a NInssocres

Was there a Massacre @ ".
This city is quite excited by the report
in telegram to the Chicago Journal that
the steamboat Miner was attacked by In
dams 500 miles above Sioux City, while
the passengers and crew were chopping
wood, and all but two men-including
women and children-were massacred and
scalped, the boat plundered and destroyed
1t is believed that Mr.. J.. G. Fales, of this
city, and also Mr.. 1. w. IIibbard, Frank
and Frederick Hibbard, former residents,
were passengers on board. Of course
their relatives and friends are very much
shocked.
There is every chance that this report is
extremely exaggerated, if not entirely I'M
founded. 1t should be borne in mind
that all boats are required to have one
cannon and twenty-five armed soldiers,
also that the passengers and many of the
crew were fully armed many of them are
old miners and fully acquainted with the
habits of Indians and their warfare.-
The boat had stopped to get wood, which
was being chopped. This wood must be
all "toted " on board, therefore the boat
would land where wood was plenty and
close to the bank the men would chop as
near as possible; they could not have been
more than q few rods off. The only ad-
vantage the Indians could have is in hav-
ing the first fire and in numbers, which
would be but for few seconds, for the
boat would be the refuge of all, and few
turns Of the engine shoves the b1atiltb'
the stream-where to fight or safely re-
treat is at the option of those on board.
The whole thing sounds as though that
of all the passengers, crew and armed SOL
diers, there were but two towards who
skulked and ran away. They, like desert
ers in the war, ran to the nearest place of
refuge and tell horrible tale
CONSTANT READER.
The --latest.
1t was expected that the United States
Supreme court would giye,a decision on
Monday in the reconstruction injunction
cases. Greece is about buying seven
monitors of our government. :. .Commo-
dore Leonard Paulding, United States Ma
Wy, died on the Doth. 80. General SedgKick,
who is about to be mustered out for his
unauthorized occupation of Matamoras,
claims to have papers showing that his
course was warranted. The Millcrites of
Memphis made great preparations for their
final doom which they expected on Sunday
last......Two barges struck pier of the
bridge at Rock Island, on the 10th. One
of them was totally wrecked and the other
seriously damaged. Loss $4,000. Sew
eral RATS of lumber have been broken to
pieces on the bridge recently. .....It is
thought in Europe that the negotiations of
the recent Peace Congress will only post
pone war......Hon. Joseph Wright, U. S.
minister to Prussia, died ut Berlin on the
18th inst......The government. of Great
Britain has committed the death sentence
of Doran, one Of the convicted Fenians,
to long Imprisonment. South American
disturbances still continue. 1.-The heavy
bill for cable dispatches in our Russian
American affairs-one message costing
nearly 50 600 in gold-is not settled yet.
Russia claims we should pay the bill and
Sec. Seward holds that it was incurred by
the Russian authorities. -. Tho loss of the
steamer Miner and the massacre Of oil bnt
two on board by the Indians noted else
where has been contradicted.. ....Jeff. Da-
Wis with the officers in charge arrived in
Richmond, Va, on Saturday last. /; His
case was expected to come up before Judge
Underwood on Monday or to-day Tues
day.. Horace Greeley is in Richmond it
is believed to become one of his bail should
his case be thus disposed of. Should he
be released on the writ of haJcas corpus,
however, it is intimated that he will be
Immediately arrested on an indictment for
treason.