Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1871-07-29
&iseeIIansous.
The DutcEacry Of Friendly Indians
al GaER1 Grant.


Ht Camp Grant.
The board of Indian commissioners at
Washington have just received the report
Of Lieut.. Royal L. Whitman, Of the Third
States cavalry, deted Camp Grant, Afizo-
na, May 13, 1871, in relation to the late
massacre OF friendly Indians at that post
! by citizens Of Tucson and vicinity. From
this report the following facts are taken:
In FEBRUARY five old women came to the
| lieutcna,stss camp furnishing and nearly
naked. He fed them, and they asked per-
mission TO return with some orders and
young warrior who desired TO be at peace.
| The latter came, and after some negoti-
ations brought in with him his whole band,
| aud was assured of protection and aid. All
were placed in q designated camp, and the
| facts reported to General StoneD0n, and
| Instructions as to feeding and treating them
asked for. All the reply received from
Stoneman's headqua rters, after long de-
| lay, was to return the report without COM
ment, except to call attention TO the fact
that it had not been brictcd exactly accor-
ding to regulations
Alter two or three months the number
of Indians who had come in and were liv-
ing peaccably, constantly aiding in the
work about the fort and gathering hay and
wood for themselves, as far as possible,
was about $40. The officer in charge gives
a most satisfactory account of the behavior
of the Indians, Of their desire TO keep the
peace, and to contribute as far rs possible,
to their own support. They were also
active in exefting Il good in5uence upon
| the Indians in tie vicinity.
From first TO last they acted in good
faith, aud exhibited great content and hap
piness. They were given to understand
that they were under the protection of the
government.
Lieutenant Whitman had moved their
camp to higher ground, q little distance
from the fort, for purposes OF health, aud
because water WAS moro abundant, and,
ns he supposed, he had the Indians salts
factorily established. On the morning Of
the Both of April a band Of citizens from
Tucson, Arizona, without warning OF pro-
vocation Of any kind, surprised the peace
ful and unarmel camp, aud began an in
discriminate butchery. Of 12j killed or
missing only were men. Many were
wounded, and the camp was entirely burn
ed. Lieutenant Whitman had succeeded
since in getting some Of the band in again,
and was again trying to protect them.
The following is Lieut. Whitman's ac-
count Of his visit to the scene and the sur
vivurs Of the massacre
MANY of the men whose families had
all been killed, when l spoke to them aud
expressed sympathy for them, were obliged
to turn away unable 10 speak, and too
proud to show their grief The women
whose children had been killed or stole
were convulsed with grief, and looked TO
me appea!ingly, as though | was their last
hope ON earth. Children who, two days
before, had been full of iun and fro!ic, kept
at n distance, expressing wondering horror,
| did what | could. fed them, aud talk
ed TO them, and listened patiently to their
accounts. ] sent horses into the mountains
! To briuI in two badly wounded women, one
one shot through tiie left lung, and one
with an arm shattered, These were At
tended 10, and are doing well, aud VIII re-
cover Their camp was surrounded and
attacked mt dnyhruak, 50 sudden and un-
expected was 1t that no one was awake %
give the alarm, aud | found quite u mum
bsr of women shot while asleep beside their
bundles of hay they had collected % bring
iu on that mlruing. The wounded who
were unable O. get away had their brains
beaten out with clubs or stones, while some
were shot fun ar arrows after having hvcn
mortally wounded by guushot, The bodies
| were all stripped. OF the whole number
buried one WAS an Dld man, And one we'll
crown by all the resI women ana chill
drun.
Ofthe whole number Killed aud missing,
about ous hundred aul twenty-five, eight
only we're men. |. ha. been said that the
men were not there They were all there,
On 2slh We counted ons hundred aud
twenty-eisht mru, small number bclns
absent iJf muscal all al whom have since
been la, have spent good deal OF time
! wlth them since thu allalb ani have btrn
asluulshld az their continued Hilrlgken iAllh
Ia uie, and their lsricclly cl.aF understand
ing of lheif misfortune They cay, We
knlW there are a great many white msh
sui AeAlcans Who dl ult saut ~ hNe at
psace. Ne Auos that ihe lala suea would
nut have colue uut ahtg us al lhls lline "
thry had not hsn pgnutdei % do 81,
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