Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-04-16
Eight Whites Including Two
Priests Butcherediby Blood
thirsty Crees near
Fort Pitts.
A Witness of the L00ting at
Battleford Reaches Win
nipeg and Describes His
Hard Experience

] LOAAh hbOD Hills, w. L.
Special Telegram, April 10.-In Camp
| Touchwood Hills. Gen. Middleton
was in communication with both Bat
tleford and Prince Albert tonight by
wire. News came via Battleford of a
massacre by Crees at Frog Lake,
EIGHT miles west of Fort Pitt. Eight
whites were killed, including two
priests. The garrisons at Battleferd
and Prince Albert are safe as yet, bus
anxious for succor The force will
push as rapidly as possible from here.
1t is reported that Rel is entrenched
at Batoches, and has cannon. This is
doubtful. Middleton had short
conference with Indians here to
night. They expressed loyalty. The
wires are crowded with official
kilograms, and particu lars are i'm
possible to obtain.
A TRAVELLER FROM BATTIiEFoRD.
WINNIPEG, Man, Special Telegram,
April 10.-H. Parker, a farmer from
Battleford, who was one of the beseig-
ed, reaching here to-day. He left
there on the goth OF March. That
evening all the people in the locality
had gone into the barracks. Riders
had come down the Battle river. stat
ing that Poundmaker's and Little
Pines bands were but five miles dis
tant at shutdown, and were approach
ing the village There were from
three TO five hundred Indians, After
escaping Parker passed the Stoney
reserve on the way. When he got
there forty or fifty Indians in war
paint. and armed with bows and ar
rows and axes, came dancing around
him. They seemed quite friendly and
shook hands. This reser Re is that of
Mosquito and Grizzly Bear. Payne
was the instructor at this reserve. He
was about fifty years Of age and came
from Warwickshire. He told him
the Stonies were very loyal, but they
were patrolling that night because
they expected some half breeds were
coming to steal their cattle, The next
morning Parker heard that he was
killed. During the night the Indians
stole his provisions. The next morn
ing Parker started and drove forty
miles from the reserve, camped there
and at sunrise next morning, Apple.
garth, Red Pbeasant'sinstructor drove
up with his wife and sister in law and
Cunningham, school teacher on the
reserve. Tkey stated that the Stonies
had risen and killed Payne and Ber-
nard Fillmoine, a Belgium rsncher.
A mounted policeman, Slower, who
left Battleford on Thursday, April 2,
overlook him. He stated that Indians
came
IN AND WENT ALL THROUGH THE
STORES
land house on the south side. Look
ling through telescope from the bar
tracks they could see the Indians ct
their work. Occasionally five or six
would be seen swinging their arms
and executing a dance in front of the
store doors Then they would strike
the door with their axes and burst it
in. Everything they could carry
away they took outside and then de-
Lroyed the stores. The carpets were
taken from the Hudson Bay store,
Mahappy & Clinskill's store, Judge
Rouleaus house and other places and
laid on the hillside. Then they ran
their horses over them. No building
were burned, but the Indian Office was
demolished. A courier said settlers
in the locality had be9n plundered of
stock and supplies. The Bessaylef
settlement, twenty-five miles west OF
Battleford, had been visited, every
thing taken and men, women and
children compelled to walk. On
Thursday last, the day the couier
! e rod
the river at the Indians on the south
side for the purpose of opening the
way for Slower and Bierd, half breed
who accompanied him through. Two
or three Indians were seen to tumble
over and limp off, as if badly wound
ed, and a half breed going up hill on
a blackboard jumped out, ran, and let
his rig 90. After tho gun was dred
the Indians ran away and hid them
selves, and the police escorted Slower
and Bierd across the river, and gave
them a send off. They put off as fast
as they could. Regarding supplies
and defenses at Battleford, Parker
says
The Indian department has about
500 sacks of flour inside the stockade,
/ which arc being uSeQ as CChcedlulen !
points for sharpshooters. Although
they must have provisions for from
four to six months. and any amount
of ammunition. The only thing they
might be short of is water, as they had
to 20 to the river for water, and if
Indians are in the vicinity this would
be dangerous.
THE DUCK LAKE FIGHT AGAIN.
Regarding the Duck Lake fight,
Parker says a large number of rebels
were killed. Two volunteers and one
policeman who were wounded have
since died. LIE Manitoba has received
a letter from a Freedman giving an
account of this fight, of which he says
he was an eyewitness, and Ls Manl~
toba guarantees the authenticity of
the facts related. The story differs IN
only a few particulars from the half
breed accounts already published
Hung.