Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1873-04-19
Further Particulars of the Massa ere,

A San Francisco dispatch of April IA. says
the remains of General Candy and DR.. Thorn.
as reached Yreka tha: evening. process
sion of citizens went to receive them. The
| flags were at half-mast. The bodies lay in
state at Yreka in Masonic hall all day, and
were visited by nearly the whole population
At about ~ o'clock about 800 children of the
public schools passed in procession by two
The collins were wrapped in the national col
ors and strewn with wreaths and flowers. An
expression of great sorrow was visible on
every countenance. The remains of General
Candy will be forwarded to Portland, Oregon
The remains of DR.. Thomas were sent to
Reading by private conveyance Monday after
noon, and would arrive there Wednesday
evening.
The following additional particulars of the
massacre of the peace commissioners have
been received: Captain Anderson was at
Colonel Mason's camp when the attack was
made on the peace commission and party.
He says Leutenants Sherwood and Doyle
were allured out from the camp by white
flag. They went four or five hundred yards
where they met what they supposed were only
two Indians, who said they wanted to talk to
Little Tyee' Colonel Mason) They were
told that they (the officers 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, woundng Lieu
tenant Sherwood E the arm and thigh Cap
tain Anderson, who was OH duty at the signal
station on Hospital Rock, saw plainly the at
tack upon Colonel Mason's front, and tele-
graphed General Gillem to notify the peace
commissioners Immediately. Colonel Biddle,
who was at the signal station at General Gill
LENS headquarters when this message was re-
ceived, ut once placed his field glass upon
General Candy, as the party sat together
about 4 mile distant, and very soon after
wards perceived the 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 follow
ing him jumped on him, and one, believed to
be Captain Jack, stabbed him in the neck.
His body was afterwards completely stripped.
DR.. Thomas was also entirely stripped. His
purse, containing about $50, was found under
the body, the Indians having dropped it. Mr..
Meacham was shot in three places, one ball
entering at the inner corner of the right eye,
another inside of his head, and the third pas
sing 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 a scalp wound about five
inches long. He was found about fifty yards
from the spot where the slaughter began, in
the direction opposite that taken by General
Candy. He was also entirely stripped, and
when found was bewildered in mind. Cap.
tain Anderson spent an hour with him yester-
day morning, when he was conscious and in
no pain. Meacham says he shot Schonchin
in the abdomen, and blood Was found which
indicated that one of the Indians had been
wounded The soldiers who were ready
started on double. quick Immediately upon
the firing of the shots. They met Dyer and
Riddle and his wife before they were half
way from the camp. The Indians retired and
kept up the retreat about GOO yards in advance
of the soldiers, who followed them half mile
beyond the murder ground, where they rec
manned until dark, when they were with.
drawn, as they were not provided with sup.
plies. To-day was spent in closing upon the
red. skins.