The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-30

ing the lake, where Hovey was killed, and
headed for the scene of the fight. They were
under the command of Captain Miller, brevet
colonel Of the Fourth artillery.
THE OTHER SUPPORTS.
The command from our camp under Major
Green, brevet colonel of the First cavalry,
consisted of Captain Perry, brevet colonel,
with F troop, First cavalry; Lieutenant
Cresson, brevet major, with X troop, First
cavalry, and Captain Trimble, brevet major,
with H troop, First cavalry. Colonel Greens
command advanced along the bluff and finally
connected their left with Colonel Miller
right
DARKNESS SETS IN.
Darkness finally set in, and the living, dead
and dying were soon surrounded with the i'm
penetrable cloak of night. Occasionally
news was brought in by the scared stragglers,
exagge rated in the extreme, but significant Of
some dire disaster Many of these
MEN, WHO HAD DESERTED THEIR OFFICERS
in the time of peril, had seen o hundred
Indians all around them. Fear had distorted
their vision and rendered them so helpless
that one of their number was afterwards found
dead on the field without shot. He had
been butchered by knives, and SO panic
struck he could not fire shot in his own
defence
A MELANCHOLY NIGHT
was passed in camp, awaiting the return of
the killed and wounded As the reports had
been SO vague, no one felt assured who we're
numbered among the killed and wounded.
There was little sleep among the garrison of
that camp. They moved about from tent to
tent through the drilling rain, each anxious
to hear the latest news. There was
MYSTERY ABOUT THE ATTACK
that nobody appeared to solve, as to how the
troops were SO completely surprised If in
camp, where were the pickets or advanced
skirmishers? 1t appeared so strange that
party of sixty-nine men should be al
most surrounded by Indians without their
being aware of the sign of an Indian
as far as they could see. This fact alone will
give the public an idea of the nature of the
ground in which these Indians fight and what
our soldiers have to contend against.
FRONTIER SCOUTS WANTED.
One hundred we'll armed frontier Scouts are
wanted in this c5dntry-men each of whom is
general in himself These Modocs, once
in line, fight on their own responsibility and
do not require orders and we want men to
meet them accustomed to Indian fighting, not
mere machines who have to await the orders
of their officers. They would be all very well
in open country but in these rocks every man
has to look out for himself and fight the Modoc
in his own way.
ARRIVAL OF A WOUNDED SOLDIER.
About daybreak on Sunday morning
Corporal Noble of Battery A, Fourth artil-
lery, arrived in camp severely wounded in
the neck. From this man was learned the
first authentic news of the fight, and the pre-
vious reports of the death of Brevet Major
Thomas, Brevet Colonel Wright and Lieu
tenant Howe we're confirmed Each death
had its own sorrowful tale Of answering
courage in the fearful position into which
their duty had called them.
PARTY LEFT TO THEIR FATE.
Colonel Wright and some few men, seven
or eight in number, were left by the rest of
the company shortly after the first fire. They
were lying behind small ridge of rocks,
which only proved protection en- one side,