The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-04
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Reported Killing OF General
carr and Command.

carr and Command.
San Francisco, 3.-Tucson dispatch:
Tie Star has advlces from Fort Grant to
the following Ell. ct: Three cuuriers have
now come into Camp Thomas, al bring
ing The same pews, that General Carr and
commaud have sll been massacred by
White Mountain Indians, thirty-fve
miles from Camp Apache. One nun
dred and ten men ard seven officers
were killed. The officers must be Gen
eral Carr. Captain Henley, and Lieuten-
ants Carter, Gordon, Stanton, Crues and
DR.. McCreery. The White Mount IN
Indian reservation is located about 100
miles north Of Wilcox near the line of
New Mexico. The tribe numbers about
1,50D in all They can muster 400 war
riors, This is the only tribe of Apaches
which have not been whipped into sub
lection. They were moved in 1876 into
San Carlos reservation, but rebelled and
returned to their old hunting grounds,
where they have been ever since.
San Francisco, ga dispatch from
General MeDoWel's headquarters at
Preside says "a dispatch from General
Wilcox received last night says be has
received news by an Indian runner that
CArr's command, including himself, six
other officers and sixty-four enlisted men
were killed on the 3lst, and that Pedro's
men had killed seven or eight men, in
Guiding the expressman between Apsche
and Thomas. a dispatch received from
General Wilcox, this morning, says he
has received news that q few escaped
from CarI's disaster at Cibicu Creek,
which was forty miles west Of Apache
Those who escaped are fighting their way
to Fort Apache, but it is doubtful if they
will get in. Predro's band attacked Fort
Apache, but the department commander
thinks be must have been repulsed, and
now holds the canon through which the
road from Thomas to the Apaches
passes.
(Signed) KELToN, a. a. G.
At the down town office of United
States army no definite information has
been received regarding the reported
massacre Of Gen. Carr and his command,
but officers there think from orders for
the disposition Of troops that the report is
practically correct, and that an out
break on serious scale has taken place.
A company of the First Cavalry, sta
toned at Camp McDermit, and another
st Camp Halleck, New, and company
of the Eighth Infantry, at Benecia, have
been ordered to start at once for Arizons.
Nothing has yet been heard Ia reply |
to the inquiry of Gen. Mcdowell at Pre-
sidiO, but there seems 10 be no reason to |
doubt that the report of the massacre Of
Gen. Carr and command in Arizona is
true.
Washington, 3.-The following Va !
received at the war department ln,s
morning, from Gen. Mcdowell, Sep
TENDER I'd:
The following was received from the
general, Department of
Arizona, dated Prescott, TO- day: Tiffany
telegraphs report from the sub-agency
that one Indian, named Mickey, brought
word that a number of chiefs are coming
in With their bands, but that Pedro with
all his band, and others, are on the war
path; that Csrr's command, including
himaelf, six other officers and sixty-four
enlisted men were killed the dag before
also that Pedro's mens had
killed seven or eight men, including an
expressman between Apache and
Thomas.
San francisco, 3.-Tucson dispatch:
The Star has Just received the following:
FORT GRANT, 2.
All day Indian runners have been
coming in from San Carlos Agency with
reports of the fight with Gen. Carr, at
Ciblen Creek, IN which they say three
were seven officers and about 100 men
killed. They also report an expressm An
and seven men killed on their way from
Thomas to Apache. on the 3lst. The
White Mountain Apaches are the only
Indians known who have been concerned
In the outbreak, and they number about
400 braves, but others may have been
drawn to their forces. If these reports
are confirmed, this will be serious affair
for the territory IS well as the military
force. The killed wers probably Gen.
Carr, Lieutenant Garter, DR.. McUreary,
Lieutenant Stanton, Lieutenant Cruz,
the captain commanding the Sixth
Cavalry, and q son, of Gen. Carr, who
has just graduated from 81 eastern col
lege. Troops are being FASTENED forward,
and by to.norreW it is believed couriers
will arrive with the particulars. Gen.
Wilcox is moving soldiers towards the
Indians from all points that his limited
force can cover.
Lstsr-Ths following is given IS the
latest from official sources:
jar, THOMAS, September 2.
Lieut.. Haskell, 4. D. c.. Fort Grant;
No courier from Apache, but there are
rumors through Indians that Carr's COM
mand were all killed. His Indian scouts
company commenced the attack upon
the troops, and other Indians finished
them. Runners say Pedro's band at
tackled Fort Apache and have been re-
pulsed, and that it was Pedro's band
who killed eight men ear the post.
a later report from Thomas says
Mills Indian scouts, who were with
Carr's command, turned and made the
first attack en- our troops. After the
fight, part of the Indians fastened to
Fort Apache and took the fort. It is
thought some escaped, but it is not GER
tain. Several officers ives, including
Gen. Cars wife, were a. the fort.