The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-07-06
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ASSOCIATED PRESS REPORT
10 rHs DAILY SEELLIGESoER
Disastrous Rattle with the In.
dIans-Gen. CastaF's Command
Cut 10 Pieces.

SALT LAKE, July IA special sOrres-
poudeut Of Helena, Montana Hsruld
writes from Saltwater, MontapA, under
date Of July 9, As follows: Muggins Tay,
lor, scout for Gen. Gibbons, arrived here
last night direct from Little Horn river
General Custar found an Indian camp o.
SboGt 1000 lodges on the Little Horn
river and attacked the camp. Gustav
took Eve companies and charged
upon the thiekest portion Of the
Indian camp. Nothing is known Of the
operations Of this detaehmSnt only a
they trace II BY the dead. Major Reno
commanded the other seven companies,
and attacked the lower portion Of the
camp. The Indians poured in 4 murder.
Gus ERE from all directions, and besides
the grealer portion fought on horseback,
Custer has two brothers, u nephew and a
lbrotherin-iAW killed, and none OF his de.
achment escaped. Two hundred and seven
men we're buried Id one place, aud the
killed Is estimated al 800, with only
thirty-one wounded. The Indians sur.
rounded Renos command and held them
one day in the hills cut OF from water,
until Gibbons' command came in sight,
where they Camped, and in the night they
left The Seventh fought like tigers,
and were overcome by mere brute
force. The, Indians loss cannot be
estimated as they bore of or catched the
most Of their killed. The remnant Of
the Seventh cavalry and Gibbons com.
mahd are retiring TO the mouth OF the
Little Horn, where steamboat lies.
The Indians got the arms Of the Killed.
There were seventeen commissioned Off.
eets killed. The Custars died in their
column. The exact loSs i' un-
known as both adiutantS and
sergsant.Major were killed. The In.
dian camp, from three to four miles long,
WaS twenty miles up the Little Horn
from ib mouth. The Indians actually
pulled the men of their horses in some
instances. give this as Taylor told me,
'as.he was over the Geld Of battle. The
above is confirmed by another letter,
which says CustAr met with fearful dis
aater.
Further ParticuIars-.Gen. Cus-
tar Killed.
sALrLGKE, July 5.-The Tnes extra
Of Bozeman, Montana, dated July ., says :
Mr.. Taylor, bearer Of dispatches from
Little Horn river TO Fort Ellis, arrived
here this evening and reports the follow
ing: The battle was fonght on the
25th, thirty or forty miles below the
Little Horn. Gen. Custar attacked the
Indian village, from $500 to 1000 war.
riors, on one side, and Col. Reno was to
attack them on the other. Three com.
panies were placed on hill as a reserve.
Gen. Custar and 10 officers and every man
belonging. to the FIVE companies were
killed. Reno retreated under the protec.
ton Of the reserve. The whole number
killed was 3l5. General Gibbon Joined
Reno. When the IndiarS left the
battle ground looked like a slaughter
pen, as it really was, being in a narrow
raSipe. The dead were much mutilated.
The situation now looks serious.
Gen. Terry arrived at Gibbons Camp
on n steamboat and crossed Lhe command
over and accompanied it to join Custar,
who knew it was coming before the fight
occurred.
Lieutenant Crittenden, son Of General
Crittenden'was among the killed.