Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1873-04-22
THE MODOC WAR.
Further Accounts of the Mas
Sacre.
HISTORY or THE TREkCHER0US MO
DOCS,
General Sherman's Views on
Indian Affairs.
THREE DAYS BATTLE.

THREE DAYS BATTLE.
PARTICULARS OF THE MAsscRE.
Lac dispatches TO the New York
Herald from it's lava bed correspond
cut give the following account of the
Modoc massacre on the 18th inst.
was lying down in my tent just
after lunch, reading book, and rath-
or sulky with the peace commission
ers for refusing the press access to
the talk, when | heard a shout from
the signal station on the side of the
bluff "They are firing on the peace
commissioners" Jumped up, and
buckling on my revolver, and ran
out Just as the drums and bugles
were sounding the call TO arms. |
learned from Gen. Glllem that the
Indians had attacked Co. Mason's
camp on the east side of Tale lake.
and he shove me half written
note which he had hastily penned to
send az q warning to Gen. Candy.
| rushed out with Col Miller and
Major Throckmorton's two batteries
that were leading the skirmish line,
and after about five minutes tramp
over the broken rocks, we arrived at
the scene of the massacre. In the
distance | saw three Of tie p9rpa trs e.
ors running around the edge # the
lake on their Wy back 10 their
rocky fastness.
About a hundred yards to the
west Of the place of meeting, we
found Mr.. A. B. Meacham badly
wounded with pistol shot over the
left eye. He was Immediately at
tended to and carried back for med
ioal treatment. Fifty yards further
on was the body of the Rev. DIR.
Thomas, lying on his face and strip
ped to the waist Life was extinct
from pistol wounds in his bead.
BODY OF GEN CANDY.
The hero Of many a fight was
stripped Of every vestige of clothing
and lay about one hundred yards to
the southwark, with two pistol-shot
| WOUNDS IN the neBu.
Pausing only to cast a glance on
the man they both loved and re-
spected, the troops dashed on, and
the two leading batteries were with
in mile of the murdcrera, when the
bugle call sounded "halt." Lieu
tenant Egan and Major Wright's
companies of the 18th infantry were
behind the artillery, and then came
the cavalry. General GiIlem and
Colonel Green and staff were up with
the men, but as soon as they found
that the Indians had all got back To
their stronghold the troops were or
dered to fall back.
The attack on Col. Mason's camp,
as | learn through Lieutenant Adj
ans, signal officer. commenced by the
Indians firing on Boyle and Sber-
wood, who had wandered some 500
yards outside their picket lines.
Lieutenant Sherwood was shot
throu gh the arm and leg, but Lieu
tenant Boyle escaped without injur
Both officers got safely To their
camp.
FURTHER ACCOUNTS.
San Francisco dispatches give adj
dltionaI particulars of the massacre
IF the mmissioners, as follows:
Captain Anderson was at Colonel
Mason's camp. when the attack was
made on the Peace Commission par
ty, says Lieutenants Sherwood and
Doyle were alIured out OF camp by q
white flag. They went four or Eve
hundred yards, when they met what
happened to he only two Indians
who said they wanted to talk to lit
tie Tyll (Col. Mason). The officers
said they did not want to talk, and
for the Indians to go back to their
camp, and they would return to
theirs. AS they turned around the
Indians, four 10 number, fred upon
them, wounding Lieutenant Sher
wood in The arm Al tnigh, The iat.
ter being gorr serious g0uLr, inc
bone having been sha tered ~ bull
let.
Capt. Anderson, who was on duty
at the signal station on Hospital
Rock, saw plainly the attack on Col.
Mason's front, and telegraphed Gen
eral GiIlem to notify the Peace Com
missioners Immediately. Colonel
Bidwell, who was 10 the signal sta
ton at Gillem's headquarters when
this message was received, and at
once placed his fieldglass upon Gen.
eral Candy and party, who sat to-
gether about one mile distant. Soon
the whole party scattered. He foil.
owed the Generals course with bis
glass while be ran about fifty yards,
threw up his bands and fell back
wards dead. Two of the Isdians
who were folio wig him then jump
ed upon him. One, believed 20 be
CAPTAIN JACK,
stabbed him in the n ok, and he was
completely stripped. Dr. Thomas
Was also entirely stripped. HIS
rurse, containing about sixty dollars.
was found under his body, the Indi-
aus having dropped 1t. Mr.. Meach-
am was shot in three places, one ball
entering the inner corner of the
right eye, another on the side of the
head. These are both believed to
have lodged within his Uranium.
The third passed through his right
forearm. He also received q cut on
his right arm and scalp wound five
inches long. He was found about
fifty yards from the spot where the
slaughter began, in direction oppo
site TO that taken by GIN. Candy
He was enureiy ripped, ana Devil
dered in mind. The Captain spen,
an hour with him yesterday morn
ing He was conscious, and in no
pain.
MoDoc HISTORY.
The present troubles with the No.
docs NAV be said to have orr pjnated