St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-04-11
Reports of Depredations Committed
by the Northwestern Indians
Names of Victims.
Butchery of the Whole Frog Lake Set
tlement, Including Instructors
and Missionaries.
Fort Pitt and Other Posts Believed to Have
Been Captured and the Inmates MUIR
dered by Indians.
HOstiles Fired Upon by Police at Battleford-
What Archbishop Tache Says-Rebels
Reported Captured.

from Battleford says fourteen persons in all
were killed by the Indians at Frog Lake.
Three more names are given, II. Williscraft,
c. Gavin and W. Gilchrist. The o4her five
are not yet known, but two are reported to
be lay brothers who were assisting priests
Fathers Fafard and LIE Marchand, who were
celi5ate fathers, both natives of the province
of Quebec. Indian Agent Quinn was half
breed Sioux, whose father was killed in the
Minnesota massacre. 1t is reported to-day
that the white people at Fort Pitt have
all been killed. The likelihood of this
was pointed out some days ago in these dis
patches. The post had been garrisoned by
only twenty-five police. 1t is though here
that these and all the settlers around have
been massacred. Pitt is surrounded by the
worst Indians in the Northwest, mostly un-
der the leadership oe the notorious Big Bear.
Battleford advices say party of forty In
dians approached the fort, and it was thought
they were going to make an attack on those
beseiged there, and fire was opened upon
them at long range by the mounted police in
the fort. Two Indians were killed and the
which comes from Gen. Middleton IS party says
that fifty rebels were taken prisoners at Bat
tleford, whether half-breeds or Indians, is
not known. B battery and the Queens Own
arrived at Swift Current tonight. Three
hundred and thirty cases of canned meat,
thirty barrels of biscuits and other ample
supplies for an advance are on the way there
from Winnipeg. The Hudson Bay company
this afternoon received another dispatch
from Prince Albert statingthat the balance of
Carlton which was not consumed at the time
it was evacuated by Irvine and Crozier has
been burned by the rebels.
ARCHBISHOP TACHE's VIEWS.
Archbishop Tache was interviewed this af-
ternoon. Amongst other things he said:
eff the rising is confined TO the half-breeds
it will not amount to anything at all.
1 feel sure they would not at
tack any one, as they play the
role of the defensive, but if attacked would
not account for what they would do. 1
know they would not run" If the Indians
rise the Whole aspect is changed There
will be no end of trouble. 1t will be per-
fectly horrible; but I keep hoping
they Will not rise. / would advise
the government to. at once send
a strong force of troops and deal with them
by 70 Aalf measures. Indians are by nature
cowards and have as much delight in scalp
ing swoman or child as they do in scalping
mo but If you can overawe them, they
arse soon rendered submissive. When
1 say deal with them by no
half measures, l do not mean
to slaughter them by the thousand but If they
contrive to act in the manner they appear to
be doing it may be necessary to make an
example and deal heavy blow at them. The
government must by its action commandthe
respect of the redskins. If the governments
force is sufficiently strong don't think very
great difficulty would be experienced in sup
pressing the rebellion. / am very much sur
prised at the Indians rising, because even in
their widest moments they were always
friendly to the whites. Ever since came to
the country have never known these In
dians 10 be other than friendly TO
our missionaries, to the Hudson Bay
officials and indeed to any whites.
Our people always travelled with the utmost
security over the territories. 1t would GER
tainly have paid the government to have
appeased the half-breeds, and that is what I
nave Always COMMENDED. Inc naIl-DreeQ was
the link which bound the Indians
to the white people, and the
moment that is broken the bond
is severed and there is no knowing to what
extremity the Indians may go, as they feel
their moral responsibility to behave properly
in q manner dissipated. Understanding
this point SO thoroughly was why always re-
mon,trated with the government and urged
then that whatever they did to try and
satify the half-breeds. AS for my
opihon of Riel now, am deeply
sorry for him. think he
MAJ be misguided. He usually counselled
constitutional measures. You know there
is 10 harm in agitating for ones rights or
even perhaps melting ones own people to
st.nd up for those rights, but if Riel has
rally incited the Indians to rebel and rise.
hi has incurred a great responsibility, the
magnitude of which he can never be aware.
Icould not excuse him for that act"
MORE TROOPS FOR THE FRONT.
The Sixty-fifth battalion from Montreal ar
wed in Winnipeg this morning, and went
vest for Calgary this afternoon. The Ninth
rom Quebec are expected tomorrow. Col.
Imith's battalion win leave in day or two,
md Scott's as soon as the equipment is
complete.