The Redwood gazette., 1881-09-15
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The Reported Massacre 81 General
Carr's Command . Canard-A Diss
patch from the General Giving an
Account Of isis Fight with the In.
aAans at Cibieu-Capsain Eaentig and
seven Men Killed-Fort Apache
Reached In Safety.
SAN FRANCISCO, September s.
Inc following has been received at mill.
tary headquarters:
FORT APACHE, September 2-8:a0 p. m.
TO the Adjutant-0ene,al wmpple Barracks,
Arizona:
Pursuant to orders from the command.
ing General, dated August 80, to arrest the
Indian doctor, Mo- oskay. .Delklinnc, a. SOON
as practicable, and formal request from
the Agent dated the 14th to arrest or kin
him, or both, ! first hoped to arrest him
when he came to hold his dances and in.
eantations here, but he did not keep his ap.
pointment. I then sent an Indian scout
with q message that 1 wanted to see
him Sunday, August %. received
an evasive answer from him, and
the next day marched with Troops D
and E. Sixth Cavalry, and Company A, In
dian scouts, the command numbering six
officers and seventy-nine soldiers, and
twenty-three Indian scouts. Preached his
village on the 3Oth and arrested the medi.
cine man. He professed entire willingness
to come with me, and said he would not try
to escape, and there would be no attempt at
rescue; but as we were making camp our
own scouts and many other Indians opened
fire upon us, killed Captain Hentig first, and
ran of the animals, already turned out to
Craze.
The medicine man was killed as soon as
they commenced firing, and we drove them
of after severe fight, in which we lost
Captain Hentig (shot in the back by our
Indian scouts as he turned to get his gum,
four privates killed, one Sergeant and three
privates wounded, two mortally.
After burying the dead l returned as
rapidly as practicable, arriving on the 3lst.
Some Of the Indians had preceded US, aud
had killed eight men on the road to Thomas.
The next morning they made demonstra.
tion against this post, and attacked in the
afternoon, but were repulsed.
Our total loss is: killed-Captain F.. C.
Hentig, Sixth Cavalry; seven priyates Of
| Troop d, Sixth Cavalry, and one private Of
Troop E, Sixth Cavalry; two privates of
Company D. Twelfth Infantry. Wounded
First Lieutenant c. G. Gordon, Sixth
Cavalry, In the ley; one Sergeant of Troop
E. and one private of Troop D. Forty five
horses and ten mules killed, wounded and
missing.
The command behaved with the utmost
coolness and gallantry, and encountered
danger, hardship and fatigue with the great.
est cheerfulness, in spite of the sudden and
most traitorous nature of the attack in the
midst OF camp officers. The soldiers sprang
to their arms and defeated the plan Of mas
sacre, and subsequently held their post, and
are ready for further service.
We require fifty-nine horses and ten
pack-mules. The officers here are: Major
Cochrane. Twelfth Infantry; Captain B.
MacGowan, commanding Company y,
Twelfth Infantry; First Lieutenant G G..
Gordon, Sixth Cavalry, Post Quartermas. .er,
wounded; William Stanton, commanding
Troop f, who moved forward with skirmish.
ers and most handsomely cleared the savages
out Of the bushy bottoms close to the camp;
W. H. Carter, Regimental Qusrtermaster.
Sixth Cavalry, Adjutant, and commanding
Troop D after Hentig's death; Second Lieu
tenant Thomas Cruise, commanding Compa-
| ny A, Indian scouts, and afterwards Troop
D, Sixth Cavalry, on the march and battle
here; Assistant. Surgeon George McCreary,
U. s. A., who, besides skIllfully performing
his professional duties, used carbine effect
lively. My young son, Clark NJ. Carr, ac-
companied the expedition, aud deserves to
have his name mentioned in this dispatch.
| There are forty.f civilians here who are
assisting in the defense Of the post, and am
rationing such as require it.
armed four prisoners, two Of whom be.
long to the Ninth Cavalry. They fought
bravely, and l shall recommend that their
offenses be pardoned.
am confident that the Indians have been
preparing for this outbreak for six months.
| Cooley, who Is here, says SO, also Phipp,
whose employe, Cullen, was killed.
| There have been only few Indians around
the fort to-day. CARR, Commanding.
While lamenting the death by treachery
Of Captain Hcntig and the men who fell
with him, 1 am rejoiced to report that the
story of the massacre of Carr's command is
not true. MCDOWELL, Major General.
! Another Account.
| FORT APACHE, September l.
The fight (at Cibicu Creek) began at four
O'Clock, and lasted nearly three hours, un-
| til darkness. when the Indians drew of to.
wards their own camp. 1t is impossible to
tell how many hostiles were killed.
A council was held, and It was decided
that 1t was impossible to hold the position
| against such large force. There was but one