Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1881-09-07
INDIAN MASSACRE.
Further Particulars Of the Bloody
Event on the Plains.


Further Particulars Of the Bloody
Event on the Plains.
! SAN Francisco, September 6.-The fol-
lowing has been received at the military
| quarters:
Fort APACHE, September $3.50 p. m.
Tonight General Whipple-Barracks
Arizona-Pursuantt to orders from the com
manding general, dated August 80, to arrest
the Indian doctor, Nockay Delkinner, as
soon as practicable, and formal request
from the agent dated the 14th, to arrest or
kill him, or both, 1 first hoped to arrest
him when he came to hold his dances and
incantations here, but he did not keep his
| appointment l then sent an Indian scout
with a message that l wanted to see
him on Sunday, August IS. l re-
ceived an eyaslve answer from him
and next day marched with companies D.
and E., of the Sixth Cavalry, and company
| A, with scouts, the command numbering
Six officers and seventy-nine soldiers and
twenty-three Indian scouts. I reached his
village on the 30th, 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 and killed Capt. Hentig first and
ran off the animals already turned out to
Craze.
The medicine man was killed as soon as
they commenced firing. We drove them off
| after q severe fight, in which We lost Capt.
Henley, who was shot in the back by our
indian scouts as he turned to get his gun.
| -Four privates were killed, and one sargeant
and three privates wounded-two mortally.
hl1r1- fna
idly as practicable, arriving on the
3lst. Some of the Indians had pre-
eeded and killed eight men on the
road to Thomas. Next morning they made
q demonstration against this post and at
tackled it in the afternoon, but were repulsed.
Our total loss is: killed-Cept. E. G. Hen
tig, Sixth Cavalry seven privates of troop
d., Sixth Cavalry; one private of troop E.,
Sixth Cavalry; two privates of company D.,
Twelfth Infantry. Wounded-First Lieu
tenant c. G. Gordon, Sixth Cavalry, in
| the leg; one sergeant of troop E., and
one private of troop D., and forty-6ve
horses and ten mules, killed, wounded and
| missing The command behaved with the
utmost coolness and gallantry, and encoun-
tered danger, hardship and fatigue with the
| greatest cheerfulness. In spite of the sud-
den aud most traitorous nature of the attack
in the midst of the camp, the officers and
| soldiers sprang to their erms and
| defeated the plan of the massacre and
subsequently held their post, end are ready
for further service We require 500 horses
and 10 pack-mules. The officers here are
Major Cochran, of the Twelfth Infantry ;
Capt. B. Morgenen, commanding company
D, Twelfth Infantry; First Lieut.. c. G.
Gordon, Sixth Cavalry; Post Quartermaster
VIM. Stanton, commanding troop E, who
moved forward with the skirmishers, and
most handsomely cleared the saw
ages out of a brushy bottom
close to the camp; W. H. Carter, regimen
tai quartermaster of the Sixth Cavalry, ad-
| jutant and commanding troop D. After
Captain Hentig's death Second Lieutenant
! Thomas Crane, commanded the Goa In
dams on the coast, and of Eoward's COM
mand, troop D., Sixth Cavalry. Assistant
Surgeon George McCreary, of the U. S.
A., who, besides skillfully performing his
professional duties, used a carbine effectu-
ally. My young son, Clark NJ. Carr,
accompanied the expedition, and deserves to
have his name mentioned in this dispatch.
There are forty civilians here who are assist
ing in the defense of the post, aud 1 am
relieving such as require it. / armed four
prisoners, two of whom belong to the
Nlntn SaValry. 1ney 1ouSnl oiaVely, ana L
shall recommend that their offense be par
doned. I received no dispatches from you
later than August 14.h till after
my return: then came those of the 18th,
which are the latest now at hand. I am
confident that the Indians have been prepar-
! ing 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
post to-day.
(Signed) CARR, Commanding.
While lamenting the death, by treachery,
of Captain Hentig and men, I am rejoiced
to report that the massacre Of Carrs COM
mand is not true.
(signed) MCDOWELL, Major-General.