The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-18
The M0D0C WAR.
Latest Reports from the
Front.
PREPARATIONS FOR BATTLE.
No Communication with Head
quarters Since Monday.
HONORS TO THE DEAD
Public Reception Of The Remains Of Gen
eral Candy and DR.. Thomas.
SCHOFIELD TO GlLLEM.
More Troops offered and the Total Destruc-
IA ton Of The Sayages Demanded.
THE INDIAN AUXILIARIES.
Description Of the Lava Beds and
Battle Ground.
THE HERALD COMMISSIONER.
More Troops offered and the Total Destruc.
ton Of the Sayages Demanded.
THE INDIAN AUXILIARIEs.
Description Of the Lava Beds and
Battle Ground.
TIE HERALD COMMISSIONER.
! Merited Compliment from the Army
~ in the Field.

SAN FRANCISCO, April Is, 1873.
The remains OF General Candy and DR.. Thomas
reached Yreka this evening. procession OF citi-
zens went to receive them. Flags were at half
mast and Secretary Delano was hanged in efligy.
General Canby's body Is in charge Of the Masons
and the body OF DR.. Thomas will be sent to this CITY,
ADDITIONAL PARTICULARS OF THE MASSACRE.
The following additional particulars of the mas
sacre Of the Peace Commissioners have been re-
ceived:-
{ Captain Anderson was at Colonel Mason's camp
when the attack was made on the Peace Commits
sion and party. He says Lieutenants Sherwood
and Doyle were allnred out from the camp by q
white nag. They went four or I'VE hundred yards,
where they met what they supposed were only
two Indians, who said they wanted to talk to
Little Tycen Colonel Masonl. They were told
that they 1.-THE oflicers) did not want to talk, and
for the Indians to go back to their camp and they
would return to theirs. AS the officers turned
around, the Indians, four in number, fired upon
them, wounding Lieutenant Sherwood in the arm
ard thigh the latter being a very serious wound
the bone having been shattered by the bullet.
THE SCENE FROM THE SIGNAL STATION.
Captain Anderson, who was on duty at the signal
station Hospital Rock, saw plainly the attack
upon Colonel Mason's front, and telegraphed Gen.
eral Gillem to notify the Peace Commission immi-
station at General Gillems headquarters when this
message was received, AT once placed his field
glass upon General Candy. as the party sat to-
gether, about one mile distant, and very soon
afterwards he perceived
TEE WHOLE PARTY SCATTERED.
The Colonel followed the Generals course with
his glass while he ran about fifty yards, when he
threw up his arms and fell backwards dead. Two
Of the Indians who were following him jumped on
him, and one-beeved to be Captain Jack
STABBED HIM IN THE NECK
His body was afterwards completely stripped. Dr.
Thomas was also entirely stripped. His purse. con-
tanning about sixty dollars, was found under the
body, the Indians having dropped It.
Mr.. MEACHAM's WOUNDS.
Mr.. Meacham was shot in three places, one ball
entering at the inner corner Of his right eye
another inside OF his head and the third passing
through his right forearm. The first two balls are
both believed to have lodged within his Uranium
He also received cut in the left arm and scalp
wound about Ave inches long. He was found about
fifty yards from the spot where the slaughter began
In direction opposite that taken by General
Candy. He was also entirely stripped, and when
found was bewidered in mind Captain Anderson
spent an hour with him yesterday morning, when
he was conscious and In no pain. Meacham says
be thinks he
SHOT SCH0NCHIN IN THE ABDOMEN,
and blood was found which indicated that one OF
the Indians had been wounded. The soldiers VINO
were ready started on q double-quick Immediately
upon the firing Of the shots. They met Dyar and
Riddle and his wife before they were half way from
the camp.
THE INDIANS RETIRED
and kept up their retreat about six hundred yards
In advance of the soldiers. who followed them half
q mile beyond the murder grounds where they
remained until dark, when they were withdrawn,
as they were not provided with supplies.
THE EXPECTED FIGHT.
Tuesday was to be spent in closing upon the red
devils, and II general assault was not made to-
day 1t certainly will be tomorrow.
The Bodies OF General Candy and DIR.
Thomas Lying In state at YreIka-No
Further News from the Front.
SAN FRANCISCO, April IA, 1878.
The remains OF General Candy and DR.. Thomas
have been lying in state at Yreka in the Masonic
Hall all day and were visited by nearly the whole
population. over one thousand persons have
viewed the remains. At Twelve O'Clock about three
hundred children OF the public schools passed In
procession by twos. The collins are wrapped In
the national colors and strewn with wreatns and
flowers. An expression Of great sorrow is visible
on every countenance.
THE REMAINS OF GENERAL CANDY
will be forwarded TO Portland by this afternoons
stage In charge OF the Generals aid, Captain r. la
Anderson, who will be met at Rosebud on wednes1-
day evening by a special train for Portland.
THE REMAINS OF DIR. THOMAS
will leave for Reddng by private conveyance al
two O'Clock this afternoon. They will arrive there
Wednesday evening.
NEWS FROM THE FRONT EXPECTED.
No couriers have arrived from the front up to
this hour zone p. NJ, but they are hourly ex-
pected.
There is nothing later from the Modoc country
than was contained in last evenings dispatches.