The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-09-18


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CHEYENNE, Wy, September 10
courier who lett General Crooks com
mand September II, brings the following
news, up 70 September y:
Since General Crooks column tnrne!
south towards tho Black Hills, on the 6tl
instr there has been considerable hard
ship, through wet weather and living OF
bacon and hard bread and good deal o
grumbling. On the 9TH II was decide!
to send portion ot the pack train ahead
under escort OF Colonel Miles, with titeei
men, on the best horses Of each company
Of the Third Cavalry, making lou IN oil
Lientenants Won Lutwitz, schuttle anc
Crawford composed the subordinate ON
GERS, with Lieutenant Bubb, Fourth In
fantry, Chief Commissary, Tom Moore
chief packer, and Frank Gruard, Crook''
chief scout. '
The latter was 10 serve both as guide
and scout, and on yesterday evening HI
discovered, through the rain and fog
without being himself observed, o hostile
Sioux village, consisting. Of forty-ont
large lodges, and band Of several hun.
dred ponies, and a few American horses
Colonel Miles concluded to attemp the
attack with his one hundred and fifty men
without waiting to send word to Crook
for reintorcements. He fell back few
miles, hid his command in rayine, and a
2o'clock thismorning marched for the vii
lage, which was situated on a little creek
q tributary Of the Grand or Owl Creek.
He formed on the north side before day
light, and ordered Lieutenant Schmaltka
and Company M to charge through the
village, while the rest OF the force (dis-
mounted) were To form u skirmish line
on either side, and pick oifthe Indians
as they came out.
The latter were completely surprised,
and scattered out pell.mell, half naked
returning the fire 10 some extent. Their
ponies were etlectually stampeded. ow'
Ing to Miles small force, he only succeed
ed IN securing the lodges and property
therein, and about 140 ponies. There
was an immense quntity oil dried meat
tSc.-all that Crooks whole pack
train could carry, and sufficient to post.
pone the proposed purchase Of supplies
There were wagon loads OF robes and
savage spoil Of all kinds. The guidon Of
the Seventh Cavalry, which Custer used in
the Little Horn massacre, and various ar.
ticles Of wearing apparel worn on that &C.
casion, were also captured. A quantity
Of corn stored ut the mouth OF Powder
River as late MS August s, where Terry
was fired on, was among the spoils. The
whole march and showing since Terry
and Crook met goes 10 confirm the sound.
ness of the latter's views Of the enemy's
probable destination and whereabouts
since leaving their camp on the Little
Horn.
Lieutenant Won Lutwitz, Of Company
@. was seriously wounded in the knee.
Priyates Medbury and Charles Foster, oi
Cotnpany 3; Augustus Dorm, Of Company
D, and Sergeant Glass, Of Company L,
were wounded, and Private Wenzel, Of
Company A, was killed in the action oi
The morning.
About Z o'clock, word had reached
Crook, fifteen miles back, with the main
column He came forward with sections
from the cavalry, reaching Colonel Miles
at II o'clock. The latter had Kept up q
good picket fight during the forenoon
Crook was very much disappointed be-
cause Miles did not report the discovery
last night, as there was plenty oi time to
have got up the entire command and SO
eGectually surrounded the village That
nothing could haye escaped. But the
General was also pleased too, all things
considered.
About one hundred yards from the
village is little raylne, in which a Dand
ol seven warriors ana hiteen women anu
children were safely lodged IN cayernous
rocks, and y was in trying TO dislodge
them that Miles lost his Killed ana most
oil the wounded. Gen. Crook desired 10
save the women and children, anu py
means OF the guards interpreting, a par
ley ensued. Three warriors came out,
one, a chief named American Horse, be-
ing mortally wounded. Before THIS par
ley was effected, however, Frank White,
a citizen, was shot through the heart, and
priyates Kennedy and Mckeenan,, oi
Company G, Fifth Cavalry, were wounded.
About twenty minutes past 4 o'clock
this afternoon, there was sudden picket
firing sprung up, beginning on Colonel
front, resulting in the wounding
OF Sergeant Scheiber, Company X, and
private Dorm, Company F, Fifth Caval-
ry. It proved to be the result OF rein
received from Crazy Horses
band, and running attack all around the
circle, but the troops were quickly thrown
out and the enemy driven on IN every d.
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