Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-20
TA-TA, TA-BA-BOoH.

TA-TA, TA-BA-BOOH.
Lieut.. Wntlace attacks MardMdinO Band
of Nee Perces, Kills Sic and Nortally
Wounds Their Chief-Daring Exploit ola
Sergeant.
[Chicago Times.
The raid of a band of Nez Perces Indians |
through Montana, an account of which, as |
telegraphed Gen. Sheridan, appeared in the
Times over week ago. has ended in disaster |
to the redskins, as is shown by a report re-
ceived at military headquarters on yesterday.
The report, which details the operations of
detachment of soldiers commanded by Lieut..
Thomas S. Wallace, is forwarded by Maj.
Fl. T.. Chapman, commanding at Fort Mis-
soula, Montana.
| It had been reported to the officer in COM
mand that small. party of Indians, sup
posed to be Nez Perces, had committed
numerous murders in the Dearborn Bear
Gulch, and Rock creek valleys, and that they
were apparently moving in the direction of
the Lou-Lou pass, through which they
could easily escape, to Idaho territory. AS
| they were reported as being then in Bitter
Roo valley, Maj. Chapman dispatched Capt
James ii. Gageby, with one company, to
guard the Lou-Lou pass, and at the same
time sent out detachment of fifteen men,
under Lieut.. Wallace,
/ TO GIVE CHASE TO THE RAIDERS.
/ Lieut.. Wallace proceeded up the valley to
the scene of Gibbons fight with the enemy,
a year ago, without finding a trace of In
dians. He started to return, but, at poin
sixty-four miles from the Big Hole battle
; field, struck the looked-for trail, and resumed
pursuit. After following the trail eighty
one miles, and coming within short dis
lance of the enemy, the citizens volunteers,
numbering about fifty, who ha i accompanied
him thus far in the pursuit, turned back.
The next day, with thirteen regulars, two
4 volunteers, and guide, he pushed ahead to
t the north fork of the Clearwater, having i'll
the meantime crossed the line into Idaho
e territory. A little further on, at the mouth
of the cannon, the Indians We're espied.
After short rest, during which it may be
imagined the volunteers were engaged in
screwing up their courage to the sticking
). point,
THE CAMP WAS CHARGED.
;, the troops opening rapid fire as they adj
:. yanced. The Indians, the report says were
; completely surprised. The regulars must
! have fired with tolerably good aim, for the
h report states that six Indians were killed and
a three others wounded aid that twenty three
Il mules and ponies were also killed. The fir
4 ing ceased on both sides until about sun
q down, when tue Indians let fly three shots
/ into camp, striking and severely disabling
), two horses. The fire was promptly returned
, but with what affect is not known, or, i
:. known, is not stated in the report Dark
,e ness enveloped everything, and under cove
IS of it the redskins escaped.
ar During temporary cessation in the firing
q oergt. Edwin Phoenix, of company Fl, Sd in
fantry, waded the stream, which, at tina
point, was twenty feet wide and nearly wais
~ deep, to the open ground in front of tn
e. lated. He coolly set about cutting the lar
y lats and stampeding the animals to the op
IS posite shore. Two rifles, which he foun,
y upon the ground among the ponies, he threy
- into the creek. He mounted one .of tn
1T beasts, and undertook to lead the herd o
de ponies across the stream. The Indian
n poured an unceasing fire at him from til
1t, bush near by. The animal under HIM wa
en- shot dead in its tracks. Nothing daunted b
go this little mishap, he mounted another on
e. {. and successfully stampeded thirty-one hea
al of horses to the opposite bank, where the
le, were taken charge of by the troops.
to The report gives the number of Indian
a engaged in the fight at nineteen. Two c
ed these were squaws, but they fired quite a
a often as the bucks. number of th
sn animals captured were subsequently ident
=. fed and claimed by citizens of the territor,
as from whom they had been stolen Th
SO troops
y, ESCAPED EVEN THE SLIGHTEST CASUALTY,
and only two of their horses were struck b
o.. 90 bullets. The horse belonging to the guild
is was killed. The Indians were a party {
IN Nez Perces, who, having deserted Chic
IN Joseph during the latters engagement wit
e Gen. Miles and taken refuge in Sitting Bull
an camp in Canada, had deserted from his gan
e, and are marauding across the countr,
n with the view of ultimately reaching their
e. home in western Idaho. Ta-ba-b boob is thei
lie chief, and it is thought he was fatally wount
of ed in the fight.
in Lieut.. Wallace, after commenting tf
ng bravery displayed by several officers an
nd men, closes his report as follows: 9Th
&C. position of the Indians was strong, on az
in count of the ground which was necessaril
,e, passed over in approaching them, the troop
he having to charge down hill under full vie
so for about four hundred yards, with but fe
he trees and no brushes to shelter the men fro1
n the fire."