The New York herald., 1874-10-09

4 SPLENDID CHARGE,
driving the Indians before them: Major LYMAN
the train, deployed at Intervals, ana the other
hall in the rear Of the train. commanded BY Lieu
charge, and about seventy. i've IN the rear, who
cupying some very steep buns adjoining. The
tram was Immediately parked IN two lines,
0oguey The fsnsy on the right red into the
from that time forward. It being then Two
0c0S5 sas s WAS ssps up
upon pom the the Indians. and sSey. with q dash and
Ss
from which loss OF the leg or death may ensue,
Citizen n % wasonmsster standiofd, Who was T in the
corral, was shot through the bowels. He possibly
may recover Tas escort @ then ley down, firing as
around continually and firing, and the scene for
the time, as Lieutenant West states very much
when the eScort dug rine pits par allel with the
train, the Indians doing the saMe-tne frst time
yards distance. The firing was renewed at day
hight from the rlne pits, and continued without
1es
until they reached within nfty yards Of the train
some OF the Indians left on the morning OF the
18th OF september Company X, Sixth cav
airy. Lieutenant Kingsbury commanding, from
Camp supply, appearing on the morning Of the
the train proceeded to join General Miles, COM
mand at the Washita. about six miles west or
@ a Es ossas a. as ase 10 sSer
peculiar circng horseback, 1T is dificult to get
sure aim at Them. The loss Of the detachment
was one killed and four wounded OF enlisted men
and three killed and seventy-fve wounded OF
mules, one horse killed and two wounded. The
fact that one OF the scouts, named Sandstone,
went through the lines OF the besieged train and
DeMs S ns Hcs o sSP
Lieutenants West and Lewis, succeeding IN get
mandns the post M Camp suppy to send as he
did. very magnanimously, every available man he
nad to rescue the train and Its defenders leaving
himself almost without means Of defence and ex-
hibiting praiseworthy spirit OF sefdenial The
men and oficers defending the train were four
sLEEPLEss DAYS AND NIGHTS,
during which their su1lerlngs @ were intense and
posing the attacking coumn were the same as
those whipped by General Davidson At the Washita
aSn wsn x %o
proved breech-loadlng arms Alter Miles had
miles into the StaKed Plains, his supply of rattvns
becoming exhausted, which indicated that there
luctantly to withdraw and seek channel oi COM
muDications to secure additional ratiOns from his
e i ne n
his column to the south bank Of the
Washita, latitude 35 deg 40 min. and longitude
90 deg. as mln., where he Is now and win remain
Tor four or five days, when he with strike for the
west up the sweetwater and Washita along the
Staked Plains. Some Of the events In the ope-
rations OF General Miles, troops battle In adventure
all attempts at description, and excel, as was
OF the encounters,
The heroic action OF Amos Chapman and Dixon,
the scouts, with two citizens, sergeant and one
enlisted man, who, lying In sand hole surrounded
for whole day one OF them, the sergeant. being
killed and oil the others being badly wounded.
yes in the terrible aesalls OF me event ana
t.at Kit Carson ever dreamed OF or Ned
Buntline ever attempted to describe from his
less SO was the experience OF Lieutenant West
and hts associates with the train, and the climax
tachment commanded by Colonel Bristol told me
that ne and his associates lived Two DAYS on
acorns Il Is Wen VEIL known principle % Of military
to fight well and long but, IN his experience, Miles
and his poor men seemed to have been lost sight
how 1t is to De explained will leave to those who
know more aboutit than DO to determine; but IT
made to suffer unnecessarily
General Miles has issued general order to-day,
IN which a. ne highly the orayery ana de
In the recent encounters oil his expedition with
the Indians.
THE LOSS OF HORSES
in the Miles column has been immense, amount
ing, one ol his officers informed me- to over l60
and they literally strew the line OF his march The
gree. This shows that neither men nor horses
nave been spared. General Niles nas nndoubtedly
tions with brilliancy, but, perhaps, just now .
slower and more co-opc4 .i-tve movement might
whole more to the end desired BY General Miles.
He is certainly 0 first class nghting soldier and
RrqadeG 81 In the unted
Army in the event Of Howard's being retired,
which Grant was said among army men to
have been very an xious Howard should sccede TO
about time or his going before the Court OF In
quiry: But Howard's friends opposed It and pro-
tested against IT strenuously, and he determined
to resist the Presidents wish. Thus the gentle
man who 10 familiar with ana deals ont at price
post traderships and Is surrounded BY money
KNAPP, secretary or War was no less disappointed
in being rendered unable to give the anticipated
It, Was naS
determined to secure the nice little plum for his
them both, the Indian war is expected to settle
tue claims OF the two and 1t is gener-
ally believed that Mckenzie VIII be the lucky indi
vidua, though Miles has great merit and national
reputation well earned during the war.
We leave here in the morning for camp and
ward rapidly to Mcclellan Creek and thence south
wardly on the Staked Plains, securing everything.
HOPING TO MEET M'KRNzrE
who is coming up on the Pecos or Red River.
What our subsequent programme Will be events
give good account OF ITSELF With about 500 fight
about abe % forty indian and nsif dozen Of the best
volunteer citizen scouts which the country can
afford, all in entire "rapportn with their oflcers
and disposed to do all they TO help close up the
Indian war. Miles win lay by for about ten days
to recuperate and get remounted, We shall
in all probability open communications with
Mckenzie in about week at furthest. II he Is
moving up, rs we suppose. Between us and Buell.,
VINO is marching toward both, obliquely, we shall
strike the Indians, no doubt; but 1t may not be
looked for as nything else but
ANOTHER QUASI AoDOC WAR
and an all winter campaign with all the available
force we can get mustered together, and the whole
thing 1t be possible, one OF surrounding or such
concentration that we can strike from co-operat-
ing radli and reach the Indian every time. He
wiI at all events get such "whirl' as will settle
the conv viction In his mind that we are earnest,
and between Mckenzie and this column he Will get
his most positive 1rst dressing as soon as either
comes upon him. But 1t must be remembered
that as the Plains grow broader the stories viii
grow longer as to what we are doing and what
the public expects US to do. But In my next, to
SATISFY the dear. good nnhllc which does NOT ike