Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1876-07-29
THE INDIAN WAR.
Another Slaughter Of U. s. Troops.

the following special:
ST.. LOUIS, July %. "A special from Leavcn-
worth, Kansas, says terrible story CONES trcm
Sidney, Nebraska, recruiting station On tic
Union Pacific Railroad, not lartrom Cheyenne,
10 the effect thst the attack made BY the Sioux
upon Crooks camp on Goose Cree proved t.
be more of a slaughter than h-ht, nearly
three hundred soldiers of Crooks command
being killed and the entire command driven
across the c:eek-a nal for the unerrlnE but
lets of their savage adversaries. The advlcos
state that on last Wednesday evening Mr. y.
T. Fray. the post suttIer at Camp Sheridan,
arrived at Sidney with the Information that
Lame Deer, friendly chief, had come into
t,amp Sheridan, thirty six hours trom the bat
tie field, as courier, bringing the terrible
news, aud stating tina, Gen. Crook had more
men killed than Custer had with him III the
fatal fight up the Little Big Horn. The loss
of the Iudia1s Was no; stated, as IL Is hardly
probanic that Lame Deer k1ew, The led skis
having driven the soldiers across the creek. ami
being in possession Of the field, leaving them
sufficient time to bury their dead. Lame Deer
also says that the lDdlans now nave full sweep
ia the northern country, and propose alter
driving the miuers from the Black Hills to
make a clean sweep OF the agencieS, following
which they propose to devote their attention to
the different stations on the line Of the Union
Pacific railroad. The Sioux feel greatly elatcd
over this, their greatest victory. Large mum
bers Of braves vino had deserted the s'audard
Of Sitting Bull, have now rajoined bis forces.
4 feeling Of depresslon and gloom seems 10 have
taken possession Of the soldiers 10 Crook
command who regard their fate as certain and
who do not expect 20 see their friends IN the
States again.
This is the substance of the story, as told by
Nj. Gray, at Sidney, being what be heard iIom
the lips of Lame Deer himself, but nothing OF
an offioial character has been heard yet at Fort
Leavenworth relating to it. The Times on the
same subject has the following:
CHICAGO, July ga special dispatch to-
plight, brings the Intelligence via Font LeaVen-
worth, that an Indian is reported TO have ar
rived at Sidney barracks who states that he Is
direct from Gen. Crooks command add ne says
that on Monday last the Sioux made an attack
on Gen. Crook and killed nearly three hundred
of his command and routed him completely.
Your corresp nnjeut has made dllgant l1qiiry
at Gen. Sheridan's headquarters, aud General
Drum, the Assistant Adjutant Geueral, says
that the report is prepostcrous. Had the In
dian come cut from Gen. Crooks vicinity and
struck for Sidney Barracks be would have
Tail Agency, and there Is direct topographic
communication with those points. Had there
been any truth u the wild rumor 1t would
have been received at headquarters AMI not
leaked out round ab3u, BY way of Fort Sidney.
New YORK, July 29.-The Times has the
following:
CHICAGO, July 2S.-Gen. Sheridan to-day
received letter addressed BY all the surviving
nou-commissioDcd officers and prlVates ct the
18th cavalry who were engaged 10 the light OF
June 25th aud 10Th to President Grant and
Congress. The letter sets forth the earnest
d. sire of these men that the vacancies among
the commissioned officers be flied ty the PR
motion of Major Reno 10 the llcutc uan' colo:
nelcy. OF Captain BeuteeD to the majority, and
that the other vacancies be filed BY officers OF
the regiment according to seniority. The pctl'
TONERS state that while this may be contrary
to the established rules of promotion DIVA
ton is desirable, as it will be couterrng u
brayeIy foug for and justly merltcd promo
ton Gu officers who by their bra9try, Goodness
and decision, saved the lives OF every man DOW
living of the 7th cavalry, and who participated
ia battle, which the petitioners say was one
Of the most bloody on record, and one that
would have ended with the loss OF the lie o.
every officer and enlisted man on The field. but
for the position taken by Major Reno, which VT
held with bitter tenacity, against fearful odds,
to the last. TO support this assertion, had our
position been taken one hundred yards back
from the brink OF the heights overlooking the
river, We would have been entirely cut OF roln
water, and behind those heights the Indian dc
mons would have swarmed in hundreds, pick
ing off our men by detail and before Monday,
June &c, b. not an officer or enlisted man OF our
regiment would have been left to tell OF our
dreadful fate as we then would have been com
pletely surrounded" The petition is signed
by $50 Dor. commissioned officers and prlvateS.
NEW YORK July 29.-Papers publish this
morung the following:
"OTTowA, July % The Canadian depart.
ment OF the interior has just received iUtelll-
mounted police that the Sioux approached the
Btackeet Indians resident 10 Canadian territory
and asked them to take up arms against the
whites but we're refused. The Sioux the,.
proposed an attack 90 the Americans alone, hu'
this also failed to cause an alliance. This gov
erument has a treaty with the Backfeet, and
it has so lar been strictly observed by both
parties,
A Womelsdort pa correspondent of the
Reading Eagle writes that Oh Tuesday, lSth
inst, while the sun was pouring dowo its Bills
teriog rays, making The thermometer dance up
to 40, Adam L. Fisher Of Marion township.
engaged the service of eight brothers at NOW
log oats 10 81 acre field, something which
has never before baen done in Marion town
ship, if 10 the State. B low We give the nam",
age and hegh, of eac', OF the brothers: B>nj
Hehiuger, forty. one years DID, height feet !
inches; George, thirty-eight years Ole, heich:
5 feet IL inches; Joho, thirty five years old,
height feet; William, thirty years old. hegh!
5 feet IL! inches; Fraukliu, twenty six year:
old, height feet III inches; Daoiel, twenty
four years old, height feet III inches; Pcarse
twenty. three years old, fee, Il inches; Cab
rie, nineteen years old, 5 feet liz inches.
Here were eight brothers averaging six feet /: