Daily Los Angeles herald., 1881-09-15
GENERAL CARR'S FIGHT.
A Graphic Description by an Officer of His
Command.
Tucson Journal.l

Tucson Journal.l
FORT APACHE, A. t., Sept. 9, 1881.
EDITOR JOURNAL: - We have
been SO constantly occupied of late,
that no one has been able to write,
and if they had done 30 there has
been little or no opportunity to
send any mail. For the Informs.
tion of our Tucson friends 1 wish
to give you a short account of the
White Mountain Indian outbre Ak.
General Carr was ordered some
days prior to the outbreak, to ar
rest Observation-Disclosures, the
mediciue man, in order to prevent
any outbreak. The Indians were
threatening and saucy, and We're
well armed with breech- -ioaders.
having apparently u large supply
of ana munitiOn. After sending for
the medicine man to come to the
Post, and on his failure to comply
with the request, the General
started to his camp on Cibiou to
bring him iD. We reached the vii.
lage on the SECOND day, August
Both, about 3 P. NJ, General Carr
had sent two Indian scouts (one If
them the First Sergeant of the
company ahead of the column
some hours, to say to all Indians
that no harm was intended by his
visit, and that hs was coming to
get the Medicine Man to take him
to Apacbe for a talk. When the
troops arrived within about three
miles of the village. Sonshey, u
we'll known White Mountain In.
dian, came up, shook hands and
said he was going home to his corn
fields on the Cargo. He passed
down the column, counting the
men, and instead Of going to the
Cargo, he returned to the Creek
bottom. This was the only suspi-
cious thing noticed until Just be-
fore the attack. We rode up to the
"wickie-up" occupied by the medi-
cine man, and he came out to meet
US, shook haads with the General,
and seemed willing go without
any parleying A guard was placed
over him, and he was clearly noti.
fed in the presence of those who
surrounded him that any attem pt
at q rescue by the Indians would
be signal for his death.
The General then rode off with
Capt. Hentig's troop, 3D." crossed
the creek aud camped about a mile
and half away. The guard, Ino
dian scouts and Lit. Stanton's troop
"E' came along the same side of
the creek the viilage was Oh, and
came to cam p just as the pach train
had untOaded and the Sd" troop
horses turned out to Craze. There
seemed to be q large Dumber of In-
dians following the guard, and the
General was notified. He at once
gave orders for the guard to take
the prisoner to the vicinity OF the
cargo, and that all the Indiana be
kept out of camp. Lit. Stanton
marched through camp and formed
line preparatory to dismounting.
Capt, Hentig went towards the In.
dians unarmed and told them to
Keep out. He told his company
not to lake their guns, for fear of
exciting the Indians. Lit. Cruise
Was showing the guard of the med
iclne man where to camp, and Lit.
Carter WAS putting the Indian
scouts In camp. The scouts found
fault with the bottom and said the
mesa had too many ants where
they were told to camp. Iu the
mean time, while selecting y place,
they kept in Il line abouu three
PAGES apart on the crest of the
m I'm n aA a faI n
cry was given by some mounted
indians, aud the scouts and others
opened Il terrific fire on us. Capt.
Hentig fell at the first fire, shot
through the heart. Four men
were killed and four woundee, two
of whom died afterwards. Saucheg
was the moving spirit Of those who
ran off what horses had been
turned out. Knowing how small
a garrison was left here, and what
large number OF Indians were in
the vicinity, Gen. Carr started
back as soon as the dead weIo
buried. We marchedall night and
arrived here next day, the 31st, and
on the next day the Post was at
tackled. The sudden and treacher.
GUS nature OF the attack was
enough to have stampedsd most
people, but the men sprung to
their arms and opened fire on the
indians such that they COM
meuced running for the hills
and q cover in very short
time, The scouts took to the brush,
but the General ordered Lieut.
StantOu's troops, "E" dismounted
to clear the woods, and they did it
quickly aud handsomely. In the
meantime I'D" troop had gotten
into shape, and returned the fire SO
steadily that the Indians soon after
withdrew 80 far that their bullets
did not reach US. Gen. CARTS per-
feet GOODNESS throughout the affair
gave renewed courage to the men
and helped greatly to bring order
promptly out of the chaos created
by 50 sudden an attack. Captain
Heutig and the men Of his troop
killed were buried on the field.
We hope to punish these wretches
in full for this uncalled for atremIt
to massacre the command. The
poor fools are perfectly fapatical in
their belief that this medicine man
could bring the dead Indians to
life, provided the white people left