The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1876-07-07
INDIAN WAR.
General Gustav and his Entlrc Com,
mand BulchCred by The Sioux
Indians.
Colonel Reno with Seven Companies
Defeated with Great Slauuhtor-Flf
teen Officers Killed, Lieutenant
CritIenden Of the Number
Nothing from Crook.

WASHINGTON, July @, General
Hancock arrived this morning, Il Is
supposed for consultation oyor the sit.
uation OF affairs In tho Indian coun.
try.
There has been no official account of
the following disaster but which seems
well confirmed. General Gustav found
the Indians in camp OF two hundred
and lltty lodges on Little Horn, and
immediately attacked them with five
companies, charging into the thlckest
ofthe camp, Nothing Ia known OF the
operations Of this detachment after the
charge, AZ they were only tracked by
their dead. Major Reno attacked tho
lower part OF the camp with seven 70.
naming companies. CustaE his two
brothers, nephew and brother-ln.law,
with about three hundred men were
killed, Only thirty.one wounded.
Two hundred and seven men were
buried In ono place, The Indians sur
rounded Reno's command OF seven
companies, and held them in tho hills
one day away nom water General
Gibbons command then came in
sight, and the Indians broke camp and
left in the night, The remnant of the
Seventh Cavalry returned TO the
mouth of the Little Horn, where there
is a steamboat.
The Indians got tho arms Of the sold
iers Seventeen commissioned officers
are killed. The whole of Custar's
family died ut the head of the column.
Another account Hays the battle wac
fought on the 2Sth. thirty or forty
miles below Little Horn. Gustav at.
tackled village Of $500 to 1000 war
rlorg on one side, Colonel Reno on the
other. General Gustav, aud fifteen
officers and every man OF five COM
pRnles were killed. Reno retrrated
under the protection of the reserves,
while the number killed WAS three
hundred and fifteen. General Glib
bon's joined him. Reno's dead are
mitch mutil9ted. Lieutenant Crllten-
den, son of General Crittenden, Is
among the killed.
CHICAGO, ILL.,, July Ga dispatch,
confirming the report OF General Gus
tar's fight on the Little Horn river has
Just been received at General Sheri-
dams headquarters.
LATER--Genera Hancock, Secretary
Chandler and Postmaster Jewell, with
the President, are again In c0nsulta-
ton over the Indian situation. The
war department received, this after
noon, confrmat0ry reports OF the
newspaper accounts, which gave them
| the first intimation of the disaster, the
following from Sherdan's headquar-
tiers at Chicago, signed 10y AdJutant
General Doran: dispatches from
General Terry, dated ut his camp at
the mouth Of Bghorn, confirming
newspaper reports OF a fight on the
18th Of June, on Little Bigh0rn, and
of Custar's death. Terry has fallen
back to his present camp. J have sent
full dispatches to the Lieutenant Cen
eral, who will probably communicate
them. have not yet received Gener-
al Terry's report of the action or list Of
casualties.
The Secretary of War, General
Sherman and General Sheridan are at
the Centennial. The war department
Is crowded with people to hear the fate
of relatives in the Indian country, but
can learn nothing. General Crltten-
den has been informed of his Sous
death by General Rugglcs, of General
rerrys staff.