Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1879-01-24

Dul Ouo sCdlp IL IepOTJeu anu bno CreOlJ
of that is given TO the citizens. Five
soldiers have been killed OF died from
wounds and eight wounded. Thirty
two Indians, of which twenty-five were
males and the remainder women and
children, have been killed, and twenty
six buried in one common grave. 1t is
believed that about fifty Indians, in
cluding Dull Knife, have escaped. Wild
Hog, Old Crow and one other savage,
lie in irons in the camp, one mile from
Fort Robinson.
The Sioux at the Pine Ridge Agency
have as yet made no demonstration
other than in the indulgence in exhi-
bitions of grief over their slain rela-
tions. 1t is not believed among army
officers here that an outbreak will be |
made, but if no better management |
prevails in restraining the Sioux from
indulging in a war dance than was |
exhibited in the capture of the |
Cheyennes there can be no safe |
prediction as to the result. The |
Sioux say they can feed the Cheyennes |
if the Government cannot, and would /
scrimp themselves rather than to see |
their relatives starved.
1t will require evidence to prove that |
the hostiles were not permitted to es-
cape. Companies b and ID, Third Cav
airy, left Fort Laramie this morning,
commanded by Captain johnson, ac-
companied by pack train, to endeavor
to intercept the Cheyennes.
Fort ROBINSON, Neb, Jan. l6.
Yesterday at noon Captain Lawson,
commanding Company E, Third Cav
airy, started in pursuit of the fleeing
savages, who are said to be making
detour in the direction of Pine Ridge or
Rose Bud Indian camp, and the pros
poets of reaching the wigwams of their
sympathizing red brethren are greatly
in their favor despite the sanguine hopes
of the military to capture them ere
they can reach them. The savages
have a good thirty hours start of the
troops, and should they succeed in
stealing enough horses to mount them
selves, which is not improbable, their
escape is certain, and will be the
means of getting the young warriors of
the powerful Sioux Nation to dig up the
hatchet and avenge their wrongs. The
prevalent impression here is that we
are near the eve OF a bloody Indian war.
The mail carrier just in from Pine
Ridge Agency, Red Clouds new loca-
tion, states that since the news of the
Cheyenne outbreak and its results be-
came known to Red Clouds people
there is much weeping and wailing
among them, and they say their hearts
are bad. Captain Vessels started with
his company this morning at four for
Indian Greek. He will take up the
trail.
Fort LARAMIE, W. T., Jan. 16.
Captain Johnson's command camped
tonight at Silver Springs, forty miles
north of here on the old Deadwood stage
road. 1t is reported that the Cheyennes
were seen last night six miles from
Bluff Station, on the Cheyenne and
Deadwood stage road, about thirty
miles northwest of Red Cloud. They
were evidently making for the station
to secure herd of horses there belong
ing to the stage company.
CHICAGO, Jan. 16.
The officer sent from Omaha by Gen
eral Crook to investigate the recent
Cheyenne outbreak has made his official
report. He says upon the Sd inst. the
chiefs were notified that the Washing
ton authorities had decided that they
must return south. They consulted
their people, and next day Hog gave an
unequivocal refusal, saying they would
die first. The attempt to starve and
| freeze out was last alternative. On
the 9th Hog was arrested as the lead
! ing oppositionist and ironed, after stab
bing a soldier in the struggle. The
| prison where the remainder of the In
L.,
caded and the windows draped to con-
ceal their movements. 1t became dan
| gerous for white man to 90 inside the
door, as the Indians had knives and
would cut them. 1t was not known
that they had guns, but on the night of
the 9th they fired four shots, killing two
of the six sentinels, and made rush
! through all the windows with the in
tention of killing or being killed. The
guard and others pursued. In the firing
which was now going on several women
and children who were gong in the
crowd with the men were unintention-
ally killed, though many officers bravely
tried to save them. All the men refused
to surrender, and when exhausted stood
at bay. Several soldiers were killed
in trying to capture them. None were
killed who could be taken. They had
concealed their arms under the prison
floors. They had fifteen guns, a few
revolvers, and many knives. A des-
perate outbreak had doubtless been pre-
meditated. The squaws say the men
feared hanging if they returned south,
and in this affair all expected to die.
The casualties to date are: Soldiers
killed, 5; wounded, z; Indians captured,
! II; killed, 32. A company resumed the
trail to-day (January 15th.) Col Schuy-
| Ter, the officer who makes this report,
having thus intimated that the Indians
had concealed arms, it is probable that
an investigation will be made into the
manner in which they received them.
! The press dispatches have mentioned
| fact that the Red Cloud Indians visited
the prisoners, fact which is not stated
in the official report.
Fort ROBINSON, Neb. Jan. II.
A courier has just arrived from the
scene of hostilities, five miles distant
from the position held by the Cheyennes
at the last writing, with information to
the effect that the savages had assumed
the most inaccessible position of any of
the many from which they recently
! stood the troops at bay.
He also states that a party of five
soldiers who were detached from the
command for the purpose of ascer-
tanning the position held by the
Indians, unexpectedly found them
selves within short rifle range of over
half a score of Indians. The latter
discharged volley at the squad, kill
ing Private Barber, of Company II,
Third Cavalry, and gaining possession
The comrades of Barber, though ex-
posed to the fire of the Indians, used
desperate efforts to prevent the Indians
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