New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-04-18
THE MODOCS.
Further Particulars of the Atfnck-Death
OF General Candy as Viewed from a
signal staiiOn-Nature Of the Wounds
-B0dies stripped by the Indians

Further Particulars of the Atfnck-Death
OF tenernf Candy as Viewed from a
signal staiion-Nature of the Wounds
Bodies Stripped by the Indians.
YREKA, April l7.-General Canby's re-
mains have been received here. Secretary
Delano was hanged in ettigy.
San FRANCISCO, April 1.-THE following
additional particulars of the massacre of
the peace commissioners have been re.
ceiveG:
Captain Anderson was at Colonel Ma
sons camp when the attack was made on
the peace commissioners and party. He
says Lieutenants Sherwood and Doyle were
allured out from camp by white flag
They went 400 or 500 yards, when they met
what they supposed were only two Indians
who said they wanted to talk to Little
Tyce Colonel Mason).
They were told that the officers did not
want to talk, and for the Indians to
go back to their camp and they would re-
turn TO theirs. AS the officers turned
around the Indians, four in number, fired
on them, wounding Lieutenant Sherwood
in the arm and thigh.
Captain Anderson, who was on duty at
the signal station on Hospital Rock, saw
plainly the attack upon Colonel Mason's
front, and telegraphed General Gillem to
notify the peace commission Immediately.
Colonel Dudley, who was at the signal sta
ton at Gillem's headquarters when this
message was received, at once placed his
field glass upon General Candy as the party
sat together about one mile distant, and
very soon atterward he perceived the whole
party scattered
The Colonel followed the Generals course
with his glass. He ran about fifty yards, when
he threw up his arms and fell backward
dead. Two Of the Indians who were fol-
lowing him jumped on him, and one, be-
Heved to be Captain Jack, stabbed him in
the neck. His body was afterward com
pletely stripped. Dr. Thomas was also en-
tirelv stripped.
His purse. containing about sixty dollars,
was found under his body, the Indians hav.
ing dropped it. Meacham was shot in three
places, one ball entering at the inner cor.
ner OF his right eye, another inside his
head, the third passing through his right
forearm. The first two balls are both be-
lieved to have lodged within his cranium.
He also received a cut in the LETT arm
and scalp wound about five inches long
He was found about fifty Yards from the
spot where the slaughter began, in direc
ton opposite to that taken by Candy. He
was also entirely stripped. and when found
was beWildered in mind. Captain Ander.
son spent an hour with him yesterday
morning, when he was conscious and in no
pain.
Mr. Meacham says he thinks he shot
Schonchin in the abdomen, and blood was
found, which indicated that one Indian had
been wounded. The soldiers who were
ready started on a double quick upon the
firing Of the shots: they net Dyar and
Riddle and his wife before they were half
way from camp.
The Indians retired and kept up the re.
treat about 600 yards III advance of the sol
diers, who followed them half mile be.
yond the murder ground. where they re.
manned until dark. when they were with
drawn, as they were not provided with sup
plies. To-day was to be spent in chasing
up the red devils. and if a general assault
was not made to day it certainly will be to-
morrow.