Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1878-10-10
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
BLOODY WORK ON THE PLAINS.

ments there. The chief depredations
were on Sappa Creek. Every resi-
dence for twelve miles was plundered.
almost everything destroyed, all cattle
stampeded and what of crops was left
by Indians has been eaten up or de-
strOyed by stock. The number of peo-
pie killed is not yet known, but the fol
lowing bodies have been found and
brought to Oberlin and buried: III. z.
Humphrey, James G. Laning, VIM.
Laning, Thos. Kelly, Mr.. Lude, Mar
cells Fell, NJ J Alternately and Mr.
| Irwin.
Two other members of the Laning
family have been killed and their moth
er brutally outraged by several Indians.
john Marshall and a man named Stey-
man were badly wounded, and Fred
Walters and Mr. Wright are missing.
The house of II. d. Column was sur
rounded by Indians but he and his wife
with shot gun and revolvers defended
their house till they drove the Indians
away, killing several of them. Other
cases similar to this occurred. Nearly
all settlers along Sappo Creek have
taken refuge in Oberlin, and are being
cared for. They have been literally
stripped of everything they possessed
1t is reported that troops have scattered
the Indians in all directions and that
the worst is over.
AT TIE BLACK HILLS.
A st. Paul dispatch of the 9th inst,
says reports received at military head
quarters here say that both Spotted
Tail and Red Cloud Sioux have eft
their reservations III Dakota and are
moving west directly toward the Black
Hills. The supposition is that they are
about to join the fugitive Cheyennes in
a descent upon the hills. Much solici-
tude is felt for the safety of the cities
there which are protected by only four
companies of soldiers at Newport. The
seventh cavalry is under orders to
march.
GONE TO THE FRONT.
A Portland, Maine, dispatch of the
4th says: The United States steamship
Plymouth sailed this afternoon for Santa
Cruz having been ordered to protect
American citizens there.
THE ROW IN SANTA CRUZ.
Says Kingston, Jamacia. dispatch
of the 4th inst: The insurgents in
Santa Cruz are burning estates. Fried
erickstadt has been reduced TO ashes
and several leading planters have
been murdered The governor has ar
rived from St. Thomas. Only fifth sol
dier3 are available in engagements. AT
AnashOpe estate the negrOws were
routed and two hundred killed. The
town of Bassen is threatened but is yet
safe. English and French frigates are
daily expected at the Island.
THE INDIAN WAR.
Cheyenne advices Ofthe 4th inst, say
it is understood at North Platte that
Gen. Carr, at Fort Mcpherson, has no
titled ranchmen in that vicinity that
hostiles have been fighting settlers on
Red Willow creek, directly south of
North Platte, and he Is of the opinion
that this band will come up and at
tempt to cross the railroad near Brady
Island. If this is the case, this band is
separated from that one which left Re
| publican river last night, all mounted
on fresh rancho horses stolen at that
place, and are now only thirty miles
south of the line of the railroad at Ogal-
lalla Station.
An Ogallalla special reports the In
dians crossing the river at 10 A. NJ, five
miles east of that station. Fifty citi-
zens in Ogallalla are mounted and pre-
pared to defend the town, should it be
attacked.
The engine and caboose has Just re-
turned to Ogallalla. The engineer says
the uail is across the track and the In
dians on the bluff The troop train has
not yet departed from Sidney.
| A Denver dispatch of the 4th says ad-
vices just in from Fort Wallace, Kas.,
referring to the band Of Indians which
! lett the reservation near Fort Reno has
| just been received:
/ The Indians crossed the Union Pacific
railroad Sunday forenoon, going north.
! When about % miles north of Buffalo
Station, they commenced killing the
settlers, and so far seventeen dead bodies
have been found along Sophia Greek.
The Indians do not go out Of their way
to kill white people, but if they meet a
man on horseback, they kill him and
take his horse. They are now so or 100
miles north of the Kansas Pacific rail
way, with the troops pressing them pret-
/ ty hard, they have killed no women and
children, and have not thus far mutilat-
ed the bodies of their victims. The re-
port that Lieut.. Bodgerick was killed
is untrue. There has been no fight
since Friday, and Bodgerirck is here,
we'll and hearty.
PRAIRIE FIRES.
A st. Paul dispatch of the 4th inst
says a gentleman just returned from
/ Big Stone, Red River, reports great
prairie fires, extending miles in distance.
which have destroyed thousands of tons
of hay. One burned twenty miles in
one hour and forty minutes. Another,
| still burning, is thirty miles in length
/ The burned country is completely des-
olate.
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES OF INDIANS IN
KANSAS
Says a Denver special of Oct. ID: A
special to the Tribune from Buffalo Sta
ton, on the Kansas Pacific road, gives
an account of Indian depredations in
that vicinity and the killing of seventeen
| persons. The special says: The Indians
crossed the Kansas Pacific road on Sun
day morning, after killing Col. Lewis in
the battle of the Goth on Beaver creek.
They crossed twenty miles south of
Monument, struck northwest to the cat
tie trail on the north fork of the Salmon
river, and attacked the herders of Smith
d Savage, driving them away and
sUampeding the cattle They de-
stroyed the Sheridan postoffice and
ranch of F. Bayles, besides several
others in the same vicinity, going north
west to Prairie Dog Creek. On Mon