The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-09-23
AN INDIAN FORAY.
Six Murders CommItted on tlle Upper Missouri.

Six Murders Committed OH the Upper Missouri.
The Sioux City Qowa) Times of Sept 10, has
the following:-lt is our unpleasant duty to
again recount the sckening details of another
Indian foray upon white men on the Upper Mis-
souri,, near Fort Buford, as related to us by an
eye witness and partial participant. 1t is the
usual custom for Indian traders to give the heads
of the different tribes a feast each year. On the
occasion to which we refer, Mr.. Larpenter.
whose trading-post Is at Fort Buford had given
feast to u large number of Indians. After their
repast they went to the officers quarters at Fort
Buford, and amused the latter with a war-dance.
OF course, every one in and about
the fort was present to witness this
novel and amusing performance, little
dreaming that while they were standing as
spectators to witness the war-dance of Il lot of
quasi-peaceable savages, their friends only one
and a half miles from the Fort, were being MUIR
dered. 1t appears that four wood-choppers,
named Peter S. Dugan, whose parents reside in
Butler county, Pa; James II. McLain, from
some part of Illinois; j. Unroldie, an italian;
and an old plainsmen named Adam Jones' went
out in the morning to cut wood about one mile
and half from the Fort. About noon, and be-
fore the wOOd-chOppcrs were able to give the
alarm, they were surrounded by about seventy
five Indian warriors belonging to the Honca
Papa tribe. The Indians Immediately COM
menced an attack on the small body of white
men. The latter, being well armed fought back
with herOism. For one hour the unequal con-
test ragged, at the end of which time the four
white men were killed, but not before they had
killed ten and dangerously wounded thir-
teen more of their enemies. After the Indians
had killed the four white men, they
proceeded to take their scalps. Previous to this
time, Mr.. j. W. Cooper, hearing shots, and sus-
pectng that everything was not right got on
his horse and rode in the direction from whence
the sounds of the shooting proceeded. AS he
came in sight of the Indians they started for the
Missouri river. Mr.. c., learning the condition
of affairs, returned Immediately to the fort, and
gave the alarm. A large number of citizens and
soldiers went in pursuit, but before they reached
the battle-ground the Indians had scalped the
four white men, and were in the act of carrying
off their own dead The white men giving pur-
suit. the Indians made q bee-line for the Mis-
souri, river. They succeeded in reaching the op-
posite bank, and gaining protection from the
underbrush on its bank, before their
Ten Indians were killed outright, and
| thirteen wounded. The latter made their
| escape. The bodies of the ten dead Indians
were fastened to the horses of the soldiers and
| citizens and dragged to Fort Buford, where they
| were cut up and quartered. 1t would appear
| that the four white men fought until they were
| each one killed. When they were found they
| were clustered together, some of them having
| fired from fifty to seventy rounds of cartridge.
| Our informant states that part of the same
| band of Indians, on the same day and about the
| same time, attacked q train belonging to Cap
| tain Payne. There were about thirty-five men
| in Captain Paynes party. He had one man
| wounded and one horse stolen. Old Indian
| traders express fears of general Indian out.
| break. They say that the Indians never showed
| as much hostility as they do ut the present time
| and everything indicates an Indian war.