St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-16
FATE OF FORT PITT
No Word Yet Received From the
ll-Starred Post, and the
Worst Feared.
The Indians Have Evidently Returned
From There to Infest Battleford
and Siege Expected.
R1eIStrongly Intrenched at the Crosse
ing of the Saskatchewan Await
ing the Advance.
The Situation at Fort Pitt.

WINNIPEG, April Commissioner
Wrigley of the Hudson Bay company was
seen this afternoon respecting the rumor
that Fort Pitt had fallen. He admitted the
gravity OF the position there, and said that
ne would not be surprised if the place had
fallen, but the company had received no
definite news from that point and reports
IN circulation were merely rumors started
doubtless by some irresponsible party. The
Hudson Bay company this afternoon re-
ceived a dispatch from their officer at
Prince Albert dated the 11th inst. 1t con-
tanned the names of the killed at Frog
Lake and some other news in connection
with the massacre, all Of which has been
published. 1t intimated that flour was very
scarce at Prince Albert, although meat was
plentiful. Gen. Middletons dispatch indi-
Gates that he will reach Clarke's Crossing
by Friday or Saturday morning at the
latest, If he does not encounter the rebels
before getting there. He will then pro-
ceed on to Batouche's Crossing, twenty
three miles down the Saskatchewan. If no
resistance is offered Middleton will make
dash across the country from Bat0uche to
Prince Albert, which he thinks he could
reach by next Tuesday OF Wednesday.
| A RECONNAISSANCE.
! A Humboldt dispatch says: 'Gen. Middle
ton made reconnaissance twenty miles off
this point yesterday. They did not see any
! signs OF the enemy. A cOmmissariat Off
Ger states that supplies for twelve hundred
men for forty days hsve been shipped from
Qu'Appelle. When they will catch up to
us is the question. We 60 on twenty three
miles to-day, as they have got some forage
for teams there and will wait for supplies
and troops. twill then be decided whether
we shall go on to Clarke's crossing OF branch
off to Catouches. Troops yesterday tested
some of the ammunition that was brought
out for use in this campaign. 1t has been
stored in Winnipeg for the last year, and
out of fifty rounds fired three were effec-
tive. 1t is reported that the ammuni-
ton for the Peabody rifles furnished
the present time there are only $50
rounds of ammunition for the four nine
FOUNDER guns" The bad ammunition re-
ferred to in the above was brought up by
Wolseley's Red river expedition in 1870, and
has been stored in Winnipeg ever since
then. 1t is not known how large a proper
ton of the total of the ammunition it forms.
Messrs. Mcleod and Fraser have arrived
from Prince Albert bearing dispatches. Nc
Leod says that
MAI. CROzIER's MEN ARE ON HALF
| RATIONS.
The major has about 200 police and 800
volunteers Riel is now at BatOuche with
$50 breeds and 400 Indians. The breeds in
talking to Mcleod said they were deter
mined to
FIGHT TO THE LAST GASP.
The Teton Sioux, $50 strong, it Is re-.
ported, have joined Riel. The steamer
Northcote, which was to have conveyed the
troops down the South Saskatchewan to
Clarke's Crossing, arrived at Swift Cur
rent to-day. As Col. Otter had made his
arrangements to start for Battlef0rd at
once, the boat will be used to transport sup
plies on the river The boat is at Gen.
Middleton's command Col. Otter says he
will reach his destination week from to-
| day. 1t is feared he will be met by the
rebel Indians who, it is thought, will attack
his force.
Capt. Steele of the mounted police, with
fifty scouts under his command, will start
for Edmonton at once as an advance guard
to the expedition which 1t is proposed to
send from Calgary to Edmonton.
LATE DISPATCH FROM CALGARY
to-day indicates that all is quiet there and
in that vicinity. The governor generals
body guard which arrived this morning
| under command OF LleuG. COl UcoISe DcH-
| ison consists of eighty men and seventy-one
horses. During the trip around the north
shore of Lake Superior arms, accOutre-
ment, horses, etc., were wrecked to some
extent and the guard has gone into camp
here until all necessary repairs can be made.
| BATTLEFoRD, April 15.-The Indians
yesterday burned the buildings on Dewan's
cattle ranch six miles south of the town,
the scene of Fremoine's murder, but no In
dians are to be seen in the vicinity to-day.
An Emigration View of 1t.
WINNIPEG, Man., April 15.-From one
of the most prominent officials Of the Cam
adian Pacific railroad, L learned tonight
that the trouble in the West is now about
practically ended. Although more troops
were sent West daily, the most of them are
exceedingly poorly equipped and will not
stand the hardships of frontier life and
J the alkali water on the plains of this vast
Northwest. 1t is an empire so vast as to
render it impossible ever to capture Riel,
and if Dewdney, the lieutenant governor OF
the province, had treated the settlers as
they should have been treated, the govern
ment would to-day be thousands Of dollars
better off He must go, or the war will last
longer Mr.. Egan, the superintendent,
sent West to-day special train
with Col Osborne Smith and his
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