Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1885-06-04
LATER NEWS ITEMS.

A force of about 500 Indians under
Big Bear gave battle to the troops under
Gen. Strange some twelve miles north of
Fort Pitt and about four miles north OF the
Saskatchewan River. Gen. Strange's loss
was one man killed and two wounded; the
Indian loss is unknown. The fight was begun
by the Indians, who were waiting in ambush
for Gen. Strange's detachment. The latter
was compelled to retreat.
Louis Reaume, O crazy fresco-painter,
belonging in Letroit started from Kansas
City for Chicago by wabash train. While
en- route he appeared in the aisle of the
chair-car, swinging revolver, and an
nounced that he was being pursued by
men desiring TO lynch him. Whom the po-
liceman at Peoria attempted TO capture him
he retired to the Mushroom and began firing
toward his fellow-passengers An attempt
was made at El Pdso ILL.,, to cut out the coach
he occupied, and he stopped the scheme by
shooting from the platform. On reaching
Englewood, a suburb of Chicago, he grazed
the neck OF an intruder with bullet. When
Chicago was reached the mailman killed
Patrolman Cornelius Barrett and struck
LcuJ- LduBullH Oh tue IOrenehu Win u re-
volver. A general firing by squad of
police brought the lunatic down, with fatal
"No Indian raid for the last ten
years equaled the present outbreak for
cruelty" says dispatch from New Mexico
'Al along the ella River out from Silver
City to distance of seventy miles the
bleaching remains of whole families have
been found, which tell the tale of how out
rageously the Apaches have broken Gen.
Crooks poor peace policy. Men, women,
and children have been butchered unmerci-
fully" A gentleman from Silver City tells a
heartrending tale of Apache inhumanity.
He was one of party of thirty-four citizens
who went out the other day to protect their
families, who were surrounded by Apaches
on Bear Creek and along the ella. Before
making twelve miles they had buried ten
persons, two of whom were women. All the
bodies were hacked into unrecognizable
shapes. The women had been outraged and
their bodies pinned to the earth by wedges
driven through them into the ground. One
or the women =s,>----,-.-.-.-u-
driven up her body. The men suf-
fered like fates, their bodies be-
lingo mutilated terribly This gentleman
confirms the reported murder of Col. Phil
lips and family. The daughter was hung up
alive by meat-hook stuck In the back of her
head. Mrs. Phillips eyes were gouged out,
her ears and breasts cut or, and her body
otherwise brutally mangled. The bodies are
heartrending and sckening sights" A San
ia Fe dispatch says the total number of muir
ders known to have been committed by the
Indians reaches seventy-fve.
The rain-sterm that recently deluged
a large section of Texas was one of the most
terrific on record. At Waco, eleven and a
quarter inches of water fell in FIVE hours. In
an incredibly short space of time the Brazos
River became wild, raging flood, in many
places five miles wide. Some idea of the
wholesale destruction may be had when it is
remembered that the Brazos is the richest
and most prosperous farming country in
rexas. There 10 n very neavy ropur.sso..-~-.
negroes, who all live in the bottoms, and the
rapidity of the rise did not permit them to
save anything but their lives. a vast desti-
tuition must be the result. The damage to
the growing crops on the Brazos, to say
nothing of the shrinkage in real values, is
beyond calculation, perhaps reaching to be-
yond $50, 100000.