The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-05-13
REIL'S REBELS.
Massing Troops and Arms
Against Them.
A VERY SERIOUS SITUATION.
viding Against ChoIera-An Insane
Mother-Other News.
The Rel Rebellion.

OTTAWA, Ont, May p. General
Middleton has ordered up forces to
strengthen his column. and wants more
cannon and gatling guns. Bruce's bat
tallion of artillery has been started fol
the front.
TORONTO, May PA field battery is
in expectation of receiving orders any
moment, and the Prince of Wales Rifles
of Montreal and and Sixty-second regi-
ment of st. John, n. B., have both been
ordered out.
WINNIPEG, May 12.-Advices received
here indicate that Middleton's forces
were engaged all day Sunday Smelling
Riel's men from the entrenched posi-
ton. Two of the troop were killed, and
twelve or fifteen wounded. The details
will probably be sent as soon as the wire
is working west. When the courier left
on Sunday evening for Clarke's Cross
ing. it was the plan to resume the at
tack to-day.
WINN1PEG, May 12.-The telegraph
line was repaired this afternoon and
some tidings of the fighting at Batouche
have come through. All the dispatches
indicate that up to the last night the
the rebels stronghold and few light
troops up to this morning included
two men killed and fifteen
wounded. The dispatches to the mill
tary headquarters and Commissioned
Wrigley here are to the effect that the
fighting is still going on to-day, and
that General Middleton is anxious for
rlore troops. Colonel Scott's battalion
has been ordered north from GU APP
pelle. Advlces tonight state that
eight companies of volunteers and in
fantry school troops have been ordered
from New Brunswick, and the Prince
of Wales Rifles from Montreal. An
other Ontario battalion is already on
the way. This is taken to mean that
the government has more alarming
news than has yet been made public. as
no one here can see any great necessity
for bringing up more troops. 1t
may be that the government
has once more got into an unnecessary
IDENTIFY not prepared to storm the rebel
stronghold and intends either to starve
them out or harrass them into surren-
der, or await reinforcements. How
long either plan may inure there is no
means of knowing accurately, as the
most contradictory stories are atioat re-
garding the rebels stores of ammunition
and provisions. 1t is not known what
has become of the steamer Northcote,
but some suppose she has gone on to
Prince Albert.
CLARK's CRossING, May II. The
steamer Minnow arrived here on Sun
day night, from Swift Current. She
was ten days on the passage. three of
which she had to lay up, owing to high
winds. She brought supplies and mails
for the troops here and at the. front.
The Baroness and liberia, of the same
line, are expected here daily. Two COM
panies of the Midland battalion, which
have been here since the. 4th instant,
left for the front this morning, orders
having arrived from the front. The
news from the front up to Monday
morning is that fighting has been going
on up to that time since Saturday
morning, and was commencing for the
third day when the messenger left.
Supplies and tents had been brought up
from the camping ground of Friday
night and Zereba had been
formed about a quarter of mile dis
tant The enemy take advantage OF
the protection they afforded our troops
and have profited by their expert nee at
Fish Creek and do not unnecessarily
expose themselves. The casualties at
Batouche, so far, have consequently
been small, compared with those on
former occasions. Up to Monday
morning our loss had been Gunner
Phillips, of battery a, and private l..
Moore, of the Toronto Grenadiers,
killed, and sixteen wounded, two of the
latter accidentally. The steamer North
cote had got down the river below Ba-
touche and an attempt was to be made
Yesterday TO communicate with her.
Nothing has been heard from the front