Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-05-14
THE MODOC WAR.

inf was received tonight:
LAVA BEDS. May Via Yreka, May 9
The Modocs made sudden and unex
pected sortie to-day on train returning
to camp on what is known as leland
Whittier. The quartermaster and Other
stories had been removed from the former
depot, at the southeast corner of Tule
Lake. They captured IL mules and 8
horses, burning 3 wagons. Three of the
escort. Privates Bursewell, Company B,
slst Infantry ; Evans. Company l, 2ls,
Infantry. and Burns, Troop G. lst Cav.
airy, were wounded while repelling the
sortie.
LAVA BEDS, May SIS A M.-Sev.
eral large fires are burning in Jack 8
camp. in plain sight from this place. 1t
is evidently braggadocia over their TEN
porary victory.
General Davis and officers who accom-
panied him here fom San Francisco,
leave here to day under escort of Lieu
tenant Miller and detachment of bis
troops.
The Modoc squaws captured at the
first battle have been forwarded to Vain.
OK reservation.
Batteries G. G.. and NJ, and a detach
ment of Battery A. Fourth Artillery,
now near the stronghold, are ordered to
report to these headquarters.
Captain Halbrouck's s Light Battery B
4th Artillery remain at the depot. south
east corner Tule lake, the infantry to
occupy positions in the vicinity of the
stronghold. All the wounded GONZALES
cent will be removed to-day to Fork
klamath. Surgeon Semig is progressing
favorably.
Private Ber.ram, Company G 18th
Infantry, died on the 9th, in the hospital
from a wound received on the Goth ult.
LAVA BEDS. May S-4l5 P. NJ
Two squaws sent out on Tuesday from
Fairchild's Rancho by instruction of
General Davis to reconnoitre the position
held by the Modoes at the time of their
attack on Captain Thomas have returned
and report that they saw no Modocs =,
their idea being that Captain Jack has
eft for some other point where water is
obtainable. The Warm Spring Indians
were ordered forward to the poin. t. dis-
cover the Modocs.
LAVA BEDS. May 10. via YREKA,
May l2.-On the 9th inst an expedition
for the recovery of the bodies of Lieu
tenant A. Cranston, of the Fourth Artl-
lery, and the men OF his command who
were missing after the engagement Of
April &c. and also of the men who could
not be brought off from the field, left
campsunder command of Lieut.. Edward
Field, of the Fourth Artillery. The
force consisted Of Batteries A and X. of
the Fourteenth Artillery, and companies
E and G of the Twelfth Infantry. under
command Of Lieutenants Camp and
kingsbury. The command left camp a;
$50 o'clock A NJ, and was supported
by troops L and X. of the First Cavalry.
and detachment of troops of the same
regiment, the cavalry being under the
command of Capt J. N. Trimble, of the
First Cavalry. The object of the e1pe-
dition was frustrated by reason of the
advanced state of decomposition in which
the bodies were found The troops,
however, buried the bodies on the field
where they fell, and headboards were
placed at the graves of Lieut.. Cranston
aud the men who were with him.
The bodie. of eight men who were
left on the field had cage brush piled
over them, which had been set on fire
by the Indians, and were almost unrec.
ognizable. The troops advanced as
skirmishers, with their fanks we'll pro-
tected. Skirmishers were employed in
groups of three, instead of the usual or
der, five or ten PAGES apart Flanks
were thrown back to the depth of nearly
equal to the front
General Davis is awaiting information
from Captain Hasbrouck. commanding
the troops in pursuit of the Modocs-
Inspector General Hardee started this
morning for Fort Klamath, Oregon, were
he is instructed to learn from the Indian
agent the disposition of the Indians in
that vicinity.
SAN Francisco, May IA courier
arrived at Yreka, at nine o'clock this
morning, with news of battle between
Hasbrouck's command and the Modocs,
in which the Indians were repulsed. No
further particulars have yet been re-
ceived.
A young woman in cumberland. Eng
land, lately threw herself in front of a
railwry tra:1 and was killed. Her con-
duct was attributed to a love quarrel.
Two weeks later her suitor followed her
oxamcle, and was killed in the came way.
As the four hundred boys in the
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