The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1881-09-04
India "a Massacre.

GENERAL CARTS COMMAND, COMPRISING ONE
HUNDRED AND ZEN MEN AND SEVEN csFI-
GERS, REPoRTSD KILLED.
SAN Francisco, September "A dispatch
aom Tucson saws the Star has adyices rom
Fort Grant to the following effect: Three
souriers have DOW come into Camp Thomas,
all bringing the same news-tbat GsDeral
Carr ana command bsve all been massacred
by the White Mountain indians Thirty five
miles from Camp Apache. One bIndred
spd ten msB and seven officers wers. killed.
The officers must be General Carr. Captain
Heuiig, IieutenaniS Carter, Gordon, STAN
ton, Ormes, and DR.. McCreery.
The White Mountain Indians reservation
is located about 100 miles north OF Wilcox,
near the line OF New Mexico. The tribe
plumbers about 1900 in all. Thly can mus
ter 400 warriors. This j. the only tribe of
Apacnes which have not been whipped into
subsection. They were moved in 1876 iaio
The San Carlos reservation. bat were recall
ed and returned to their old hunting
grounds, where they have been ever since.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT CONFIRMING HE HAssA-
GRE.
WASHINGTON, September 3.-Ths follow
ing telegram was received al the War De-
partment this morning by acting Adiutant-
General McKeever from General Mcdowell,
dated September I'd:
"The following was received from The
commanding General Of the Department OF
Arizona, dated to-day: Tiffany telegraphs
the report from a sub-agency that an Indian
named Mickey brought word that number
OF chiefs are coming ia with their bands,
but that Pedro with ali his band and others
are on the war path, and that Carr's CON-
mand, Including himself and six other off,
GERS ADD slXty-four enlisted men. were killed
day before Yesterday; also that Pedro's men
had killed seven or eight men, including an
expres,man, between Apacha and Thomas.
No word from Apacha; line down and wire
cut. Blddle was at work yes erday and
last night getting troops across The Gila,
with difficulty, pushing for Apacba."
REPORTED ESCAPE OF some OF THE COMMAND.
SAN FRAgCIsCO, September "a dispatch
received from General Wilcox this morn.
ing says that be has received news that
few Of General Carr, command escaped at
Crook creek, which is forty miles west OF
Fort Apache. Those who escaped are fight
ing their way 10 Fort Apache, bnt their
success is doubtful. PedrO's band attacked
Fort Apache, but the commander OF the de-
psrtmeut thinks that he mast have been re-
pulsed, and that be now holds the canon
through wbich the road from Camp THONGS
10 Fort Apache passes.
At BrOwnton, station OF the United
Ststes army, no definite information has been
received regarding the reported massacre
OF General Carr and bis command, but the
officers there infer that the report is essen
italy correct, and that an outbreak on Sc
rious scale has taken place. company OF
the First cavalry stationed at Camp MlcDer-
mot and another at Camp Halleck, Nevada,
snd a company Of the Eighth infantry at
Beuicis, have been ordered TO start at once
for Arizona.
ANOTHER COMBINATION AND SOME DETAILS.
CHICAGO, September "a special TO the
Times from Tucson, Arizona, confirms the
report OF the massacre OF two companies OF
cavalry, under General Carr, by Apachcs,
near Camp Thomas. Lieutenant Cruze was
shot By a med cine mau, whom be was try
ing TO arrest, whereupon the troops opened
Ore and killed the medicine man. The mas
sscre then began, the Indian scouts firing
on the white troops, and nearly every white
was killed. Three companies Of cavalry
and a company OF scout, under OyertOn are
en- route rs achievements. No courier has
yet come through, aud all are supposed TO
have been killed.