Morning journal and courier., 1885-04-11

dians-EIeven Hundred Savages Be- siegfng Fort Pitt-The American Tribes Crossing Over 1n Small Bodies.
 WINNIPEG, April 1O.-This place is in- tensely excited over the report coming from Battleford of the massacre of white settlers at Frog Lake. The victims include T. T. Quinn, Indian agent; John Delaney, farm instructor; Governor Hancock and wife; Father Tafard and Father Lemarshand priests, and two men whose names are not learned. Mrs. Delaney is prisoner and it is not known what became of Cameron, the Hudson Bay eompany's agent. The word was brought to Battleford by w. Quinn, nephew of the Indian agent, who escaped. The wire between Bautleford and Clarke's Crossingsis apparently not cut, but has been lying on the ground and circuit was estab lished for short time allowing the message to come through. There was Roman Cath olio mission school for Indian children at Frog Lake, which was in a prosperous con dition' last summer. That this massacre could have been the work of Frog Lake In dians does not seem altogether probable as they are thought quiet and we'll behaved It will be remembered that as late as the end of last December, Big Bear with his band of six hundred South Crees was in Fort Pitt agency stirring up the local tribes, and it is not improbable that he may be 8 leader in the uprising of that locality. It is also stated in the same message that Battleford is surrounded by thousand h. dians, but no attack has been made on the barracks. Indian Agent Rae has not been killed as reported. The Hudson Bay officer
 
 and Calgary that the Saddle Lake Indians have raided the government warehouse at that point and gone to join the rebels
 General Middleton was informed by mes senger last evening that Big Bear Indians had killed Indian Agent Rae at Battleford. Rae was relative of Sir John Macdonald. The report cannot be corroborated. Settlers from the north are hurrying south along the telegraph trails in numbers. They say there is nothing left to eat north of Gabrils Crossing, the rebels having destroyed every thing.
 Six thousand American troops are sta toned along the boundary to prevent Ameri- can Indians from crossing. A man named Mcintosh, a settler, who has arrived at Brandon from Duck Lake, says Riel has three thousand men and six nine -pounder cannon. The Sixty-sixth battalion, of Mon treal, arrived there this morning. They leave for the West to-day at noon.
 
 killed in the massacre at Frog Lake and probably many others met the same fate. It is known that the Indians have attacked Fort Pitt, but whether successfully or not cannot be ascertained. As the fort was held by only twenty five policemen and handful of settlers and surrounded by eleven hundred Indians headed by Big Bear, one of the most ferocious chiefs in the Northwest, it is most certain that the little band succumbed and were killed. The Indians at Saddle Rock have pill laged the government house and gone to join the rebels At Battleford party of forty Indians approached the fort and were fired on. Two were killed. The others re- treated. The rebels have taken all the pro- visions from the Saskatchewan settlement. It is said that the Blackfeet and Bloods re- fuse to smoke the tobacco brought by the Cree runners. At Turtle Mountain the the house of white settler named Perritt has been sacked. The Indians are coming in from the American side in twos and threes and assemb bling at Wood Mountain. One division of Canadian troops is north of Touchwood hills advancing toward the rebel headquarters Another is going by Sas- katchewan river to Prince Albert while a third proceeds Sunday to Calgary and thence to Edmonton and Battleford. Consul Taylor says seventeen hundred American troops are patrolling the border to enforce the United States neutrality laws.
 TORONTO, April 10-The harmful effect of the Indian troubles upon immigration is be- coming apparent. Six hundred newly ar rived Scotch and English immigrants have abandoned their intention of going to the Northwest and will remain in Ontario. Four hundred others have changed their plans even more radically and will settle in Wisconsin and Indiana.