The Newtown bee., 1879-01-28
DESPERATE INDIANS.
Details of Their Outbreak at Fort RebInso
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Details of Their Oatbreak at Fort Robinson.
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 A correspondent at Fort Robinson furnishes details of the recent outbreak of imprisoned Cheyennes, as follows. The original programme of these sav- es seems now to have been carefully prepared by them with an intelligence and spirit which would have been he- roic in the highest degree if employed ln better catise. During visit to this band of reckless wretches, made by your correspondent during the past three weeks, it became evident that the young bucks were struag up to the high est pitch of resolve and were plotting some desperate undertaking. They freely gave out that they were ready to die before consenting to be transferred south, aud said they would butcher one another with their own knives.
 When the decisive moment arrived for their desperate attempt, the first incl dent which took place was the deliper- ate shooting by buck of Private Rich ard Smith. Company A, Third Cavalry, through the window sash, in front of which the latter was walking as sentry: after which the Indian sprang through the window and seized tho ettn of the wounded soldier, as quickly springing back to his cover. Then simultaneous. ly two bucks ran out of the dcor at the west end of the barracks and fired upon the two sentinels there, wounding one, Privste Peter Halse, Company A, and as precipitately rushed back, The guard room close by was filed with the guard, and Corporal Pulver opened the door quickly to see what was the matter. Turning the corner where the firing occurred. he tcc was shot by an Indian, whereupon the remaining members of the guard jumped through the windows. as did the Indians, pell nell, and the firing became rapid and almost in- discriminate. Here Private Daniel Tommeny, of Company B, on guard, was shot down. At the lower northeasterly end of the barracks a squad of Indian bucks, four or five in number, huddled and fired rapidly on the soldiers to protect the flight of their band.
 The bucks dashed forward, with chil- dren under their arms, while the squaws followed close upon their heels, carrying saddles, bridles and provender for their perilous march. Captain Wessells had Company c out quickly from their quarters, which run in Ell oblique direction to the prison house of the Cheyennes, and volley after volley was poured into the fleeing desperadoes and as earnestly returned by the Indi- ans, who sped toward the saw mill, which lies south, and their bleeding bodies, mangled and torn, bucks, squaws and papooses all together, literally strewed the road they had se- lected for their much hoped deliverance. This lasted for miles out into the dark ness until the neighboring hills, rising | like giant icebergs, were reached and many one stumbled and fell dead just as the mountain fastnesses were reach ed, where pursuit would be impractical ble and safety gained.
 The soldiers, who all along, from off, cers down to the privates, had treated them with the greatest kindness, were now aroused to the highest pitch of evaporation, and, where the first shot did not dispose of the victim, c0uo de grace was readily given by final pistol charge. Almost every one is shot through the head, and the attitudes of the dead are of almost every variety. Some throwing their hands in the air wildly; some clutching at their knives with last effort, aud others holding their firearms in frozen, helpless clutch. One of the Indians fought so tenaciously at close quarters that his garments were set on fire by the pistol which killed him.
 Twenty-two braves, eight squaws and two children were thus killed. although one of the latter is believed to have frozen to death. The men, although frenzied at this sudden but Indian-like | ingratitude for their kindness, were as tender in caring for the squaws as if they had done no harm. Captain Wes- sells himself carried child less than two years old for hundred yards to a place of safety. Lieutenant Simpson brought wagon and team to pick up the women and children, and Captain Vessels says that while it is to be re- gretted that any woman or child was killed, it could not be helped, as they were huddled together go no distinction could be made between male and female.
 Some very ludicrous as we'll as tragic scenes occurred in the bright moon- light. Captain Vessels, with six men, was following moccasin tracks, and, dis mounting, he, with the six men, crawled upon the high ridge, when he discovered a Kiochsa squaw whom he knew, with a buck beside her. He called to her to surrender, when the buck charged the party like an infuriated demon, dlscharg, ing his revolver at close quarters, and actually drove the captains party until they could reload, which done, Private George Lavalle killed him. Sergeant Casey, of the group, says it was the most astonishing case of resolution he ever | saw