, 1873-04-30

Michael Wallace, Fourth Artillery, Battery Meuts
Ie,iea vebbcr q eisk!yon Company, Twelfth II.
f&nsry: Private Newhury, Company Twofth Infantry
Il "a a t. the toan So sss nasd
tet Arthur Crauhton and four mon OF Dattery are
'ti1 wdn,sa ni,,,ing ,o,on,, uo.-o n,t,.,v L.
Fourth Art!!lory ieft th!sh; Private Mathew Murphy,
5 aMs;1G 2''ssS L. 4 s nss; ?F% &
1.Sy S bS 5 s Str hses @ ssy aon
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Ssa sssa sas 0s:a F.n Hf nole bassfy
5si'e;y S6 Sst;ssz Si;:3r II
sraa; fs fifs! r sosaesa tyt?n eo%pany f. 4ws7!s
s4s Fo1 esaa1' s;'sSa sasssoa o1 D. ss d
oasa sas fassssss S:iss Hs dispatch from x.s.e
V m s1s s g e. and
s;9 ;sl e; III nnm'oF "ers expected
fho aottlers III tho Villages Of Oregon abovo tho lake
and lavn-bel. aro getting out with their cattle and
pIoperty. They arS afraid to remain any longer. No
M xosx, 19T!i a5The ntra,a M speetsl Ill from y.
os Sh6@ss .a'ii o "
tion ssupposod to .be hold by the h1odoca, nnG.
esrsd an nm tho 7hS wa ,,t6z sp
md whether mortars could 10 brought up and used
Effectively aFstns se a. the troops approached
taEe D. rest. mi, ntory Of tho arst nro Is
ss sa ssPess sa s2. on s' 1 ss 81
ss Rsy Sf n2 sqo i
@e?' 1asE wishta as no amy o.
weso anted the rIaht By party of fourteen other
Indians that h.d CONG 70 tho ndg.neo Of those no
5sa proved % ?ss ssas' as sna oy
bsok in eont%Bon, leaving hoir g gallant @s
small psfty of IadsnS had o5ano % posoh to to
and Of opsaS1 pepar rtng g, ass s.1 on 1s ttsp to
nd tne .nrat four .shots were only nred
K s5Sey 10 5e q
complete and with tho exception Of tho ocors and
eemmissonea oiecrs hc majority q whom ey stetch~
tho watuhword was saupeq gut peut. Confused aud de-
morazed - thoy wero tho men becaH,e ~ easy Prey
frightened deer. Occasionally was brought In BY
tho acaf6u 8tF1BBlog, cIaB8eFnteu IN the extreme DIE
Bgni1cant Of somo dire disaster Many Of these men
soon an hundred Indians ~ around them.
thcm 30 hclpioss TINT ono of their number
was afterwards found dead the fold without
a SHOT. Hs had been butcheral by knives and 90
panfcBtr1lck ha could not fro shot In bis OWL do
fenso. Tlcro myso1y about tho attack that no.
body appeared to solve Is to how the troops wero
that party Of alxty-nino men ohould be almost
surrounded BY Indians without their beiug Of
sign Of Indian far al they could This fact
alone will give tho public Idea Of tho nature Of tho
ground in which these Indians fight, and wlat our
soldiers haye 10 contend against. During the night
10 scalp md "Trip tho dead Soldiers coming through
mains Of tho mernbors OF Batteries < and
we're to 10 found. Col. areon Immediately
moved forward Lis limo to the place indicated,
anhore hid LII aome Bagcbrnsh wore tho naked bodies
Of Maj Thomaa Lieut.. Howe, Hergt. Romer, and sIE
others. Col. WrghtH body lay little to the lef and
on tho right was Lieut.. Harris severely wounded, and
tho bodies Of five Of his sirpped ct a their cloth
command Of sixty-nin men.
WARRINGTON, April 29:-A comparatively brief tele.
gram received by General Sherman tonight. It
contains nothing ro]atiyo to tho Modoc expedition
in addition to tho prcsa ACCOUNTS, which 1t eon~
lrn1cd.
WARRINGTON, April 2o.-Cspt. Thomas, reported
among the killed by tho Modocs, waa tho son Of Gen.
Army.
Lieut.. Howe WAS tho son Of Mai. Marshall Howe, aud
son-in-law Of Con. Barry, commandant 1t Fortress
Monroe.
Lieut.. Wright was the son Of tho late Gen. George
Wright, and uephow Of the late Gen. Humner.