The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1877-08-21

W0u0OeO-Gen.G lb0On Receives
A Slight Injury-One Hundred Of
The Indians Probably Killed.
HELENA, M"nt.. August 1.-THE
Wa received this morning
i;n lloI.E. Mont, Aug. -.
IL Gor. Ists:
Had a hard fight with the Mex Per.
ces. killing a number and losing Il
Of officers and men. We need
a doctor and everything. Send Us re-
lief ii YOU can. JOiIN GIBEON,
Colonel Commanding.
Bic HoIE. Aug9
II Cor. Potts:
We are here near the mouth Of the
Big Hole pass with large number o1
wounded, in want Of everything, food
medicines and medical attend
ance. Send us assistance mt once.
JOHN GIBEoN. Col. L. :. y
ACCOUNT OF THE FIGHT.
r. Gor. Potts:
We had hard fight and took thu
village, but were finally driven back
with heavy loss. Capt Logan and
Lieut.. Bradley were killed !; Glen Glib
bon and Lieu.s Coolidge. English anC
Woodruff are wounded; English seri
ously; the Others slightly. The troops
are entrenched, and the Indians ar,
leaving.
When the messenger left, Gen. Glib
bon said 81 want an escort sufficien
to protect the wagons which are goin:
ON to relieve us. Load the wagons Il,
lightly As possible. The Indians Gu
me Off from my supplies.
DEER LODGE. Aug. II. ga. m.
w. III. Edwards has Just arrives
from Big Hole. bringing accounts Of :
terrible battle between Gibbons com
mand and the Nez Perces ON the BIZ
Hole river on August o. Gibbons
command. consisting Of 1872 men. Il
officers, 133 regulars and 50 volun
teers, crossed over from Ross Hole OF
Wednesday. starting II o'clock. Or
the same night they moved down al
the troops with the exception o
a few left to guard the transporta
ton.
4 few miles above and close to III,
Indian camp which was made ON thu
BIG Hole, about three miles below
where the Bitter Root and Bannocl
trail crosses, at daylight this forenoon
the fight opened by the volunteers
firing ON and killing an Indian going
after horses. The charge was ther
made on the camp AMI har,l fighting
occurred f.r the next two hours. du
ring which time a large number o.
men and Indians were killed. Thu
soldiers then charged on the lodges but
were repulsed in the attempt. The
Indians then attempted to cut then
from a high wooded point, but the sol
diers charged and driving the Indian
advance from it and at once fortified
The fighting continued all day and was
still progressing fitfu.ly when the
courier left at II o'clock. The fight
ing was desperate on both sides,
the full force of the Indians beng in
the fight.
Capt. Logan and Lieut.. Bradley
were killed. Gen. Gibbon Capt.
Williams and Lieuts. Coolidge. Eng.
lish and Woodruff were wounded.
Gen Gibbon only slightly. Bradley
was the first man killed. The messen-
ger says that after they failed to cap
ture the lodges the Indians moved
their Camp off,n the direction Of Ban
mock. All their horses being captured
the messenger had to come to French
Gulch, nearly sixty miles, ON foot.
Another messenger was sent to How
srd, who should nave reached there
today. The howitzer had been left
tx miles behind and was ordered to
he moved up at daylight. During the
light they heard it discharged twice
md then it was silent. A band of In
lians soon after appeared with large
,and Of horses, and it is believed all
he horses Of the command, the gun,
heir supplies Of reserve ammunition.
tic. were captured. Gen Gibbon
bought. when the courier lett there,
re still had a hundred effective men
ind believed the Indians hal nearly
III Withdrawn from his front. The
says he thinks one hundred
indians were killed and nearly half the
including citizens. were
Tiled or wounded.
Gen. Gibbon has sent for medicines,
urgeons. supplies, etc: DR.. Mitchell
rill leave to-day with an escort. Gen.
;ibbon particularly asks for ambulance
Tagons to come under escort, and every
vailsble wagon will 60 forward from
ere and Butte. II IL ono of the hard.