, 1873-05-08

Lynch foil wounded, and VAS left to tho onomy,
, II tho tleht Company 2, TWo1fth Infantry, Ool.
Wright, Ind M tho r., skttlnisl ltne which accounts
line ahead was in tho al,aro Of Y, point a1,ond,
with t]anlsorH at eno ond, tho reserve being oloso
belind I1oarn that whom thoy wero attacked
nss sssrx osa.ss s ssoG t. STs hota saitns e. pov
Fourth Artillery, who went out to attend tho
wounded early IN the morning, returned ut 2 ,
O'clock e,a9 tha afternoon. On tho wey ho found a
Spring Indian ncalpetl tho dead warrior, MAKING
four Bcalpy III all takon in t'iia light.
1eaw big tlro III tho AIodoo camp to-tlay,
and It ia burning nov. fear Lieut.. 0ranatoi,,
God PITY him. @ for thoae onds |aearneto earnei havo so
mono. Still wo walt aadly for tito last and most
accurate news amid thia cold and pitcss rain,
allnoHt alono, aud with our aoal-not ours 7ot,
though wo oxpoot thcm evory minute. 0ura III
and camp tonight, and eyory man's hand grows
stTSSn'g. as e." "0 shinh only oi vengeance
had tlod, but thoy found only Modooa there, who
poured In on thom a morciless fire.
do not Jay thts blame to MI tho men, but to
tho false a-hoartoa Of these commands who ilcd Mt
Htayol through oil that dreadful scene. Tho
guido, hTr. Ticknor, escaped, and foil In with
Warm Spring Ipdsns. They expected to moot
our troops at tho Long cayo, but missing them
part In tho closing soeiio. But Buch was
The Generalization Of our troops that though tho
Warm Spring indians Ind D 6uglor with them
and tried to nako IN advance to help our men,
'upon. Finally, they Ind to give up in despair,
chance to render assistance. wel1, that is all I
@ 81 a 1gb sfa h 1G% ss ss hf unS ffs on
binding snow-atorm filed tho mir. K fro was
kept burning on Signal Rock to guido our troops
in With The dead ena youndoa, but they did not
night tho storm ragcd, and through the tlarknoss
tho soldiera toilod over tho rocks, gotting in tho
living and burying tho doad. Part Of tho SOL
dtore wore buried On the battle-ground, having
a citizon named LOWS Wobbor, who was in
oharge Of tha stretchors, was also killed. making
" all, out OK tho purity OF sl1ty-four, soYentcen
Killed, seventeen woundod, and i've missing,
two killed aud sovonteen wounded, not including
two places. TGo battlo-dold pro presented hor-
riblo Bight. In ono holc, tllrteon doad and
they had huddled: together like slloop and wero
slain or wounded. It WAS total rout, caused by
the detection Of few mon on tho start. Tho
pnnio throw everything into disorder.
4 courier from Col. Mendonhall announcoH that
his command, 120 men, Was at Dur1getsyille: two
and onc-hnlf miles from Fort Crook, in Pit River
Valley, on tito oath. Tho Moloo women and
children ha1 all arrived, aud woro acatterod
18tl, inst, q band Of aquaws were observed 1eav~
ing tho lava-bod loaded for 4 journey. They
were the advance guard Of tho train which con-
voyed tho women and childron to place Of
to Tue hilt fight vYhilo a Modoo survives.
From second dispatch received from Maj.
Groen to-day, It appcars tint there arc now col
1ccted and awaiting conveyance to camp aixtccn
men killed, including Capt. TAomas and Lieut.
Twelfth Infantry, and oight wounded, including
Lieut.. Harris, Fourth Artillery. TlleHo, addol
to. the numbor OF wounded men above cited,
| show n large percentage Of casnaltios from tho
email number Of men engaged, but it IL readily
accounted for whom ono considers that many OF
the Nlodocs aro armed with tho Spencer carblnes
and breech-loadng mupkets: Nor IL it single
instance only where ono Modoc has bcon known
to have in big ,posseaaion two or moro Spencer
rifles, thus enabling him to keep up rapid fro
of shots from lia natural or artificial breast-
work Of rock. Tho surface Of tho ground in
many places Ia so torn by volcanic action as to
leave oroyicos, ana those are adaptable to pur-
poses of either hiding OF points OF defenso.
In eoveral inBtancca, Boldiors knowing nothing
Of the Topography OF tho place have colno unn,
| by willy Inlian with rilo leYeled AMI finger on
trigger. DEATH, or ut least dangerous wound,
ie tlo result, an1 hut too often tho redsltin es-
capes by somo ono Of tho many paths known
only to themselves. As sample ot their cum
| ming, it may not be amiHs to state TINT portion
OF Bntteres A aud Il, Fourth Artillery, aud
Company I, Twelfth Infantry, finding them
solves In danger Of boing outllanked, took shell
There were some twenty In all. No sooner Ind
they done 80 than tho Indians, who knew and
commanded every egresa from this cavity, und
who ut this point numbered twenty-ono war-
| riorg, detached soyen OF their Number to ono
| side, fourteen remaining on tho othor, and
| opened croHs.dro on tho poor fellows, who
could not show head'or hnnd without On almost
certainty of being struck. A very few eacapod
uniniurcd; tho rcHt wozn killed or wounaod-