Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-08


BILE zeal. The organization of thu
campaign is being made as rapidly
as possible. The Indians have no
yet developed their plans. 1t i
believed thus far that the hostile'
have no greater following than thu
White Mountain Indians and. prob
ably few young bucks from th'
San Carlos tribes.
INDIAN SCOUTS.
Lieutenant Gatewood Is now a
San Carlos trying to recruit com
pany Of Indian scouts, but finds i
difficult. The Indians are very in
different about enlisting, except il
large bodies, not less than fifty
This is bad indication, as they
have generally been anxious to en-.
list. The department are only al.
lowed to enlist 100 Indian scouts az
soldiers, all told, until the scouts
have been organized. The move
ments of the hostiles cannot be SO
we'll determined without the aid OF
the Indian scouts, who know their
habits and their hiding places.
The following is
GENERAL CARR's OFFICIAL RE-
PORT.
DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS, !
FORT APACHE, 7
Sept. 2, s:03 P. M.
Pursuant to order from the Com
mandlng General, dated August Is,
to arrest the Indian medicine man
as soon as practicable, a request
having also been forwarded from
the Agent to arrest or kill him,
first hoped to corral him when he
came to hold bis dance and incab-
tation, but he did not keep his ap-
pointment. l then sent two In
dians with a message that would
like to see him on August 28th. /
received an evasive answer from
him, and next day marched with
troops d and e, Sixth Cavalry,
and company A, Indian scouts, the
command numbering six officers,
three Indian scouts. reached his
village on the Both ult. and arrest
ed the medicine man. He pro-
fessed entire willingness to come
with me; said he did not want to
escape, and that there would be no
attempt at rescue. AS we were
camped the medicine man and
many other Indians opened fire
upon us, killing Captain Hentig on
the first fire, and run off our ami.
mails already turned out to Craze.
hi cd
they commenced firing, and we
drove them Off after severe fight,
in which we lost Captain Hentig,
shot in the back by one of our own
scouts as he turned to get his gun;
five privates killed and four wound
ed, two mOrtaliy. After burying
the dead l returned as rapidly as
practicable, arriving at the Fort
on the 30th ult. Some of the In
dians had preceded me and killed
eight men on the road to Thomas.
Next morning they made demon
stration on the post and attacked
q guard that afternoon, but were
repuIsed. Our total loss lie: killed
Capt. D. G. Hentig, 9th Cavalry;
seven privates OF troop d, 9th Cav
airy; one private OF troop E, 9th
Cavalry; two privates of Company
d, 18th Infantry. Wounded-Lieu-
tenant G. Il. Gordon, 9th Cavalry;
a sergeant of troop e and one pri-
vate of troop ID, also forty horses
and ten mules killed, wounded and
missing. The command behaved
with the utmost GOODNESS and gal
lantry, and encountered danger,
hardship and fatigue with the
greatest carelessuess, in spite of
the sudden and most traitorous ma
ture of the attack. In the midst of
deadly fire the officers and men
sprang for their arms to defend
themselves against carefully
planned massacre, and subsequent.
ly held the fort and are ready for
further service. We require fifty
nine horses and eighteen pack
mules. The officers here are Ma
jor A. Cochran, 18th Infantry;
Capt. A. b. MCGOWAN, command
ing Co. ID, 18th Infantray; Post
Quartermaster Stanton, command
ing troop K, who went forward
with the skirmisbers and cleared
the savages out of tn 9 bushy bot
tom near the Camp; w. H. Carter,
regimental Quartermaster, COM
manding troop d after Hentig's
death; second Lieut.. Thomas Cruz,
commanding Company A scouts,
and afterwards troop ID, 9th, Cav.
airy, on the march to the battle.
Surgeon Geo. McCreery was
not only proficient in his
professional duties, but was
skillful with his carbine.
-wy young son, Clark NJ. Carr, ac-
companied the expedition and de.
serves to have his name mention
ed in the department. dispatches.
He did effective work with his ri
fie. There are forty-five Civilians
here assembled to defend the post,
and am relieving such as require
it. I armed the four prisoners,
two of whom belong to the 9th
cavalry. They fought bravely,
and shall recommend that their
offenses be pardoned. received
no dispatch from you later than
August 14th until after my return;
then one of the 18th, which is the
latest now at hand. 1 am conf
dent that the Indians have been
preparing for this many months
past. Cooley who is here says so
also. Phipps, who was employed
as woodcutter, was killed. There
have been but few Indians around
the post today.
(Signed) CARR, Commanding.
From private information just
received we learn the following:
AT last half the animals of CARTS
command were killed, and In
spite of this and while momentari-
ly expecting an attack in force,
General carr started at once for
Fort Apache, i,lainly foreseeing
that the Indians would attempt to
capture the garrison. In the Grip.
pied condition of the command,
over almos impossible roads, he
marched the forty-five miles from
the battle field to the Fort in elev-
| en- hours. arriving there before dav