The Evening critic., 1881-09-06
BETTER NEWS
FROM THE APACHE COUNTRY.

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The First Report Greatly Exag.
geratcd-GeD. Carr Reported All
Right-Some Officers and Men
Killed. fas
Gen. Mcdowell telegraphed yesterday Ia
the War Department. the following dis
patch,- which he had just received from
Camp Thomas, Arizona
aS Liets Stanton Is on the other side Of
/ the river crossing with company =, Sixth
Cavalry, He calls across that Capt.o Hentig
and seven men are killed, aud that Lieut..
Gordon was wounded in the attack on the
post. Men are cheering in the quarters.
Will give you more in an hour" tl
Lieut.. Stanton and the company referred
to are of tho command heretofore reported
to have been massacred under Gen. Carr.
| From the San Carlos Agency.
The Indian bureau has received the fol-
lowing from Agent Tiffany, dated at San
Carlos Agency, September A:
Reports have come in that affairs ut
Cibien are not so bad as reported. Capt.
Hentig, of the Sixth Cavalry, and ten men
were killed. The Indian losses were large.
Col Carr and Others reported killed false.
am cooperating with the military, and am
fully prepared by my scouts and employees.
Agency in no danger. Can stand Off all hos
tiles, and will"
Major Wilcox, Eighth Infantry, left San
Francisco this morning with 200 men on u
special train for Arizona. He will go
i through as fast as possible These troops
arc veteran Indian fighters The First
Cavalry is much scattered on the coast, but
has been ordered to Arizona, and will be
sent South us soon rs possible. The Fourth
Artillery is ready for marching but will
not be sent until positively needed. Capts.
Smith and Stacey, with their command Of
seventy men, who passed through Bowie
Station, will march from Wilcox, sixty-fve
miles, on foot, to Camp Thomas. Major
McClelland, with sixty enlisted men of the
Sixth Cavalry, left Lowell for Thomas, and
goes via old Fort Grant to observe the
movements Of the Indians ON the lower San
Pedro.
An Important OnleiaI Dispatch from
Gen. Mcdowell. + t,
Gen. Mcdowell tclegraphs the follow
"PREsIDIo OF SAN Francisco, Sept. 5
1.-The outbreak in Arizona appears very
general. The h0stiles are reported along the
Southern Pacific road from wilma to Bowie,
| a distance of one hundred miles. They
pursued the West-bound train of the Third
near wilma for six miles, and attacked Fort
Bowie the same night. The railroad en-
ployecs at Bowie station have been re-
moved, and will not be returned till
they are armed. The railroad officials
are earnestly asking for loan of arms
and ammunition with which to protect
their trains and stations for few days.
This request is respectfully referred to the
Secretary Of War. l have a battalion of
Fourth Artillery ready to dispatch, and then
all but the infantry companies, one mt
CASTOR, one at Bidwell and one at Nc.
Dermott and Halleck, will have gone to
Arizona. Nothing yet heard from Apache.
trust Gen. Sheridan will be able to
send troops by the Atlantic & Pacific road
to try and open communications with
Apache from the North. 1t is surmised by
the commanding officer of Camp Thomas that
the attack on that point has been repulsed.
but 1t is not known it was occupied by a
military company, and contained a large
quantity of arms, ammunition and sup
plies. The troops approaching the post
from Camp Thomas are greatly impcded by
flooded streams, and must be prepared to
meet serious opposition from the Indians oc.
cupying Apache Canon, the only approach
to the post from the South. large party
OF hostiles crossed the railroad yesterday
between this pass and San Simon, going
north. This presents very serious out
break, and gives rise to fears that the hos
Apache or expect to be.
Col. Carr's Report.
The following was sent to-day to the
General of the Army;
"The following Is Colonel Carr's report
Pursuant to orders from the commanding
general, dated August 10, to arrest the In
dian doctor, Noekay-delk- lime, as soon as
practicable, and the formal request from
the agent, dated the 14th, to arrest or kill
him or both, l first hoped to arrest him
when he came tohold his dances and in
carnations here, but he did not keep his ap-
pOintment.. / then sent an Indian scout
with message that wanted to see him ON
Sunday, August %. i received an evasive
answer from him, and next day marched
with Troops ID and. L, Sixth Cav
airy, and Company A, Indian scouts,
the command, numbering six officers
and seventy-nine soldiers and twenty-three
Indian scouts. / reached this village on the
Both, and arrested the Medicine Man. He
professed entire willingness to come with
me; said he would not try to escape, and
there would be no attempt at escape, but as
we We're making camp our own scouts and
many other Indians opened fire upon us.
They killed Capt. Hentig at the first fire,
and ran OIL the animals alrcadyturned out
to Craze. The Medicine Man was killed as
soon MS they commenced firing, and we |
drove them of after a severe fight, in which |
we lost Capt. Hentig, who was shot in the
back by our Indian scouts us he turned to |
get his gun. Four privates were killed. |
One sergeant and three privates were
wounded, two mortally. After burying the |
dead, returned as rapidly as practicable,
arriving on the 3lst. Some of the Indians |
had preceded us, and had killed eight men |
on the road to Thomas. The next morning |
they made a demonstration against this post
and attacked it in. the afternoon, but were |
repulsed. Our total loss is: Killed-Capt
Hentig, 9th Cavalry; seven privates of
Troop ID, 9th Cavalry, and one private of
Troop E, 9th Cavalry, and two privates of
Company ID, 18th Infantry. They wounded
First Lieut.. c. G. Gordon, 9th Cavalry. in
the leg. One sergeant Of Troop L and one |
private of Troop ID, and forty five horses and
ten mules were killed, wounded and miss
ing. The command behaved with the utmost
GOODNESS and gallantry and encountered
dangers, hardships and fatigucs with the
greatest cheerfulness In spite of the sud-
denness and most traitorous nature of the
attack, in the midst of the camp, officers
and soldiers sprang to their arms and de-
feated their plan of massacre, and subsc-
quently held this post, and are ready for
further service. We require fifty-nine
horses and ten pack mules. The officers
here are Major Cochrane, Twelfth Infantry:
Capt. Is. MACEDONIAN, commanding Com
pany ID, Twelfth Infantry: First dent O.