St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-08
MARCHING TO THE FRONT.
The Queens Own Arrives at Winnipeg
and Leaves to Join the Other
Troops.
The Riel Half-breeds Expecting 300
Sioux Indians From the Amer
ican Side.
Winnipegers Will Volunteer to Form Six
Companies and the Manitoba College
Students Will Form One.
A Courier Reaches Swift Current From Bat.
tleford, but Brings Meager Intelligence
Of the Rebel Movements.

Special to the Globe.
WINNIPEG, April IA courier sent from
Battleford two days after the line was cut has
reached Swift Current and forwarded by wire
important messages to the Hudson Bay COM
pany, OF which the following is the effect:
There are 200 men and 100 women and
children in the barracks there. They have
provisions sufficient to last them three
months. Before the line was cut the be-
sleged sent dispatch to the effect that they
lad only sufficient provisions to last three
weeks. 1t is presumed that under
COVER OF CANNON
the police sailed forth and brought in all the
provisions they could get from the Hudson
Bay post and the Indian supply depot. The
men are pretty well armed and expect to be
able to hold out until relief arrives. A dis
patch further announces that the Indians
have taken the southern trail and are now
about Sounding Lake making their way to-
wards the frontier.
HOW HE ESCAPED.
Farm Instructor Applegarth gives the fol-
lowing account of his escape: He was To-
Gated on Red Pheasant's reserve, 25 miles
southeast OF Battleford. He had no knowl-
edge OF the uprising until his house was
ralded by Indians at a. m. on Tuesday last.
Ihey d1sarmed him and two Indians felt in
all OF his pockets for money. The chief ad-
vlsed him to leave as soon as possible or his
men
WOULD KILL HIM,
and not go towards Battleford, as all of the
roads were guarded and he would be shot.
When he left with his wife and sister the In
dlans were ransacking the house. Six In
d1ans followed them for about two DAYS,
when Applegarth overlook Judge Roleau and
party of six ladies on their way from Bat
tleford. Indians then stopped them, after
which the party proceeded to Swift Currents
The Indians told Applegarth, when they
arrived at his house, that the Stoneys had
killed their instructor, Payne. as they did not
like him, and had killed Farmer Freeman
for resisting when they attempted to
STEAL HIS STOCK.
The Indians destroyed the furniture in the
houses around Battleford, and carried off all
the stock and provisions. All of the Battle
ford district Indians are now congregating
in Sounding Lake reserve, six miles north
west from Battleford, and claim they expect
THREE HUNDRED SIOUX
from the American side. The Indians de-
molished what they did not wish to carry off
in all the houses and stores raided by them,
and have taken every horse and head of cat
tie in that part of the country. Two hundred
and forty of the Queens Own and eighty of
the School of Infantry, under Col. Otter, ar
rived at Winnipeg early this morning. The
men were nearly all in good health and are
in good spirits, Notwithstanding the hard
ships of the trip around Lake Superior. A
few
HAD BEEN DISABLED
by the exposure, and many had contracted
colds. They went west at this evening. It
is understood that they will follow Middle
toms command from Qu'Appelle north. They
were accompanied by Gen. Laurie and the
commander of the Halifax garrison, who has
offered to serve as the second in command
of the expedition. The Toronto grenadiers
passed Port Arthur this morning, and will
arrive here at an early hour tomorrow.