The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-04-13

Shack Nasty Jim to his LETT.
Annppssrs BY nfEAcHAM, CANDY AND THOMAS
Meacham opened the talk, and gave
long history Of what they wanted to do fol
them, after which General Candy and DR.
Thomas both talked for some time
JACKS CUNNING SPEECH.
Captain Jack then talked in an apparently
good, serious strain, and when he finished
stepped back to the rear near where Meacham'
horse was hitched
SIGNAL FOR THE MASSACRE.
John Schonchin then began to talk, and
while he was speaking my informant, Mr..
Dyar, heard cap miss fire, and looking
around saw Captain Jack to his left with his
pistol pointed at General Candy. This was
the signal for general massacre, and dozen
shots were fred inside of half minute.
MR.. DyAR's MARROW ESCAPE.
Mr.. Dyar, after hearing the cap miss fire,
turned and fled, followed closely by Hawker
Jim, who fired two shots after him. Dyar
finding Hawker Jim gaining on him turned
and drew his Derringer whereupon Hawker
Jim retreated and Dyar made the best of his
way to the camp.
GENERAL CANDY SHOT DOWN.
Captain Jack fired again on General Candy,
and the noble old gentleman ran off to the
left, but was speedily shot down and killed
instantly.
MEACHAM WOUNDED AND KNOCKED DOWN.
Meacham was shot at by Schonchin and
wounded in the head. He tried to draw his
Derringer, when two Indians ran up and
knocked him down.
DIR. THOMAS SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD.
Dr. Thomas was killed almost instantly by
two pistol shots in the head
ONLY THREE OF THE PARTY RETURN.
Riddle ran off, and it appears they did not
fire at him, but they knocked his squaw down.
Dy"i, AsiosoAo aAu Cle SquaW leIuIueu IL safety
to the camp.
The above story obtained from Mr.. Dyar.
s'THEY ARE FIRING ON THE COMMISSIONERS. "
Twas lying down in my tent just after lunch,
reading book and rather sulky with the
Peace Commissioners for refusing the press
access to the talk, when heard sh out from
the signal station on the side Of the bluff
s'They are firing on the Peace Commission
ers"
Jumped up, and, buckling on my revolver,
ran out just as the drums and bugles were
sounding the call to arms.
COLONEL MAsoN's CAMP ATTACKED.
then learned from General Gillem that the
Indians had attacked Colonel Mason's camp
on the east side of Tule Lake, and he showed
me haf-written note which he had hastily
penned to send as warning to General Candy.
J. AT THE SCENE OF THE AssAssINATIoNs.
I rushed out with Colonel Miller and Major
Throckmorton's two batteries that were lead
ing the skirmish line, and, after about five
minutes tramp over the broken rocks, we
arrived OF the scene of the massacre
FLIGHT OF THE sAvAeEs.
In the distance I saw three of the per-
petrators Of the murders running round the
edge of the lake on their way back to their
rocky fastness.
MR.. MEACHAM FOUND BADLY WOUNDED.
About q hundred yards to the west of the
place Of meeting we found Mr.. A. B. Mea-
cham badly wounded with pistol shot over
the left eye. He was Immediately attended
to and carried back for medical treatment.
DIR. THOMAS CORPSE FOUND.
Fifty yards further on was the body of the
Rev. DR.. Thomas, lying on his face and
stripped to the waist. Life was extinct from
pistol shot wounds in his head.
TEE BELOVED VETERAN GENERAL STRIPPED AND
The body Of General Candy, the hero of
many fight, was stripped of every vestige of
clothing and lny about one hundred yards to
the southwark, with two pistol shot wounds in
the head
THE TROOPS HALT.
Pausing only to cast glance on the body
Of the man they both loved and respected, the
troops dashed on and the two leading batteries
the bugle call sounded shalt" Lieutenant
Egan and Major Wrights companies of the
Twelfth infantry were behind the artillery and