The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-06
POSTSCRIPT.
JULY a. A. N.
JULY % A. NJ.
GENERAL CUSTER KILLED.
orER THREE HUNDRED SOLDIERS
SLAIN RI THE INDIANS.
Tue Men Fight Like Tigers but are over
powrrcd- seventeen Omccr- stain -Tne
wboic Caster Family DESTROYED.

SAT- LAKE, Utah, July 5.-The special
,orresrondent of the Helena tMont) Herald
rr,e. from saltwater, Montana, under dlte OF
Juy ., follows:
Mueutns Taylor scout for Gen. Gibbon, ar
rived here last night direct from Little Horn
Rtcr. and reports that Gen Custer found tho
Indian camp of 1900 lodges on the Little horh'
and att, cked 1t. lie charged tho thlckest
rortion Of the camp with Ave companies. Noun
itg Is known Of the operations OF thls dctacn-
.ort xceut their course as traced by .he dead.
Nj ior Reno commanded the other seven com
,anics. and ntta rked the lower portion Of the
,amp The Indians poured a murderous are
hom oil directions.
Gen Custer, biz two brothers, his nephew and
Srsther.in-law were all killed and not one OF
Ii, det ,chment escaped. Two hundred and
,eyen men we're buried In one place. The num-
ber OF Killed is estlmsted at 300, and the wound
nd at thlrty-one. The Indians surrounded
Major Rcno's command and held them one day
40 them one day In the hills, cut OF from water,
nntiI Gibbons command came In sight when
they broke camp IN the night and left.
The seventh fought like tigers, and were over
come by mere brute force. The Indian loss can
not be estimated, as they bore Oh and cached
most of their killed.
The remnant Of the seventh Cavalry and Glib
tons' command are returning to the mouth Of
fhs Little Horu. where . steamboat lies. The
Indians got all the arms Of the killed soldiers.
There were seventeen commissioned of1cers
Killed. The whole OF the Custer family died at
the head OF their column. The exact loss 10 not
known, as both Adjutants and ths Sergeant Ma
bor were killed.
The Indian camp was from three to fonr miles
.ong, and was twenty miles up the Little Horr
Horn from its mouth. The Iodians actually
pulled men Oh their hoIses In some instances
This report Ia given as Tni lor told It. as be wa
over the Geld after tue battle. The above Il
confirmed by other letters, which say Custer
has met with fearful disaster.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
SALT LAKE. CITY, July 5.-rhe Tunes pub
hshes a dispatch from Boseman, Montana Ter
ritory, dated July 3, Pm:
Mr.. Taylor. bearer OF dispatches from Litti'
Horn to Fort Ellis, arrived this evening. and re-
ports the following:
The battle was fought on the e5tb Of June
thirty or forty miles below the Little Horn
Gen. Custer STACKED an Indian village Of from
$500 to 4,OOO warriors on one side, and Col. REM
was to attack It on the other side.
Three companies were placed on hill as q re
serve. Gen. Custer and fifteen officers anC
every man belonging to the nve companies wers
killed.
Reno retreated under the protection OF the re
seNe. The whole number killed was 3l5. Gen
Gibbon Joined Reno.
When the Indians left the battle-n neld looked
Ike Slaughter pen. as 1t really was, being In
narrow Tavine. The dead were much II mutilatsd d
The situation now looks serious.
Gen. Terry arrived at Gibbons camp on
steamboat and crossed the command over, AM
socou panied IL to Join Custer, who knew it WI
coming before the fight occurred. Lieut.. Crit
tenden, son Of cen. Crlttenden. was among th
killed.