Eureka daily sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1871-1887, 1876-07-08
THE SIOUX EXPEDITION.
Confirmation of the Dreadful Mas
sacre.
General Custer and Command An
initiated.
A FATAL M * z .
Not One Escapes to tell the Tale.
Opportune Arrival of Reinforce.
ments.
DEAD AND WOUNDED.
The Indians Sustain Heavy Losses
The Living Preparing to Avenge
the Dead.

the Dead.
CHICAGO, July Z.
An Inter-Ocedn's special, under date
of Bismarck, July LIST, says: Informa
ton from the Sioux expedition, dated
Mouth of Big Horn, July l." says:
General Custer left the mouth of Rose
bud Creek, with twel We companies, to
follow the trail of a large band of hos
tile Sioux. They followed it up in the
direction of the Big Horn. The In.
dams were making for the eastern
branch of the Little Big Horn. Cen
eral Terry, with Gibbons command of
five companies of infantry and four of
cavalry, started to the Big Horn to at
tack the enemy in the rear. On the
morning of the 18th of June W Crow
scouts brought intelligence of the battle
of the previous day. On The receipt of
the news the command commenced its
march in a ~southerly direction, where
smoke could be seen, which indicated
that Custer had fired the Indian vii
lage. The next morning the head OF
the column entered the plains border
ing on the banks of the Little Big
Horn, where had recently stood an i'm
mense Indian village, three miles in
length. There the ground was strewn
with slaughtered horses. cavalry equip
ments and the dead bodies of nine In
dian chiefs. The etching OF Lleu'en-
ant Sturges and Pastor were also found
pierced with bullets; and further on
was found the body of Lieutenant Me
Intosh. just then a scout arrived with
the intelligence tbat Read was in
trenciled with a remnant of the Sew
enth cavalry on il bluff near by, wait
ing relief, and the command pushed on
aud found Reno with the remainder oI
the seven companies. Reno's com
mand had beer fighting since sunday
noon, the 18th, until relieved by Terry
on the night of the 18th. Terry'> ar
rival caused the Indians to retire. Reno
knew nothing CT the fate of the other
companies, which had been separated
from them on the 18th to make all at
tack under Clusters command, at a
point abo ut four miles down tho right
bank OF the stream. Custer had nppar-
emily made an attack on the Indians
and compelled them TO retreat, but he
was cut off from the main body and
forced into the narrow recess where the
horses and men lay slaughtered. Here
was found the bodies of Custer, his two
brothers, nephews, Mr.. Read, Col
onels Yates and Cooke, and Captain
Smith, all lying in a circle of a few
yards, and here, n after another OF
Custer's brave command fell, and not
a man escaped to tell the tale.
New YORK, July 7.
Special dispatches to nearly all the
papers confirm the dreadful defeat and
massacre of Clusters forces. 1t ap-
pears that his command and Reno's
attacked the Indian camp ut different
moments, thus losing the moral eff
feet of a simultaneous attack. Reno
lost 95 men, killed and wounoed; Gus
command was annihilated. The
show that the command reached
the Indian camp, o m Little Horn, on
June 10Th. Major Reno, with three
companies attacked on the south and
vas repulsed, with the loss of Lieuts.
McIn,osh and Hodgson, DR.. DeWolf
and fifty men killed and five wounded.
Benton's command made for the bluff
across the river and WAS saved from
instant destruction by the timely ar
rival of the battalion. Custer, with
five companies, attacked the lower
part of the camp. Clusters expression
WAS serene. About 1900 warriors were
engaged and the Indians suffered a
severe loss and abandoned AN Immense
store of supplies. Reno's and Glib
bons' commands ~entrenched them
selves until the evening of the 26th,
and then were saved 10y the opportune
arrival of Gen. Terry. Custer under
estimated the enemy, separated his
force and was defeated i'm detail. He
probably mi>judged the time necessary
to make the distance between his and
Reno's forces, thus losing the moral
effect OF a simultaneous attack. The
survivors of the command remained
ut the village two days, burying the
dead and caring for the wounded. The
troops fell back to the mouth of Little
Horn to bring away the wounded and
to retit for future operations.
PHILADELPHIA, July 7.
Gen. Sheridan. now here, has re-
ceived several official dispatches from
Gen. Terry relating to the operations
in the Big Horn country, but they do
not come down to the time of Custer's
fight.
ST. LOUIS, July g..
A telegram from Gen. Ruggles, at
Paul, to Capt. G~ree1hale, com
manding the cavalry at the arsenal
of the officers killed in the fisht be-
tween the Indians and Gen. Custer's
command: Gen. Custer, Col. Custer,
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