The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-30

them, Company x. Captain Wal
lace, and Company II, Captain yar
mum. The order was then given to
twenty Indians to 20 and get their guns.
They returned with only two guns. A de-
taehment of troops at once began to search
the village, finding thirty-eight guns. As
this task was about completed the Indians.
surrounded by companies K and B, began
to move.
All OF a sudden they threw their blankets
to the ground, whipped up rides and be-
gan firing rapidly at the troops, not twenty
feet away. The troops were at great dis
advantage, fearing TO shoot their own COM
rades- The Indian men. women and chill
dren then ran TO the south, the battery fir
ing rapidly as they ran.
Soon the mounted troops were after
them, shooting them down on every hand.
The engagement lasted fully an hour and
half. To the south many took refuge in
ravine, from which it was difficult to dis
lodge them. should estimate the killed
and wounded. from what saw on the
field and vicinity, at tiftv Just now it is
impossible to state the exact number.
Soldiers are shooting them down wherever
found.
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horses running in every direction. The
men Tor a few moments were frantic,
owing TO the unfortunate way in which
they were placed. Captain Wallace. of X
troop, was the only officer killed.
In the first mad rush of Indians those of
them who had no guns attacked the troop
ers with knives, clubs and tomahawks,
and Captain Wallace was struck down with
blow from hatchet ON the head. Father
Craft, Catholic missionary, received a
bullet wound which will probably result
fatally.
Lieutenant Darlington, of Arctic explo-
ration fame, received serious wound in
the arm and number of non-comsis-
stoned officers and privates wounded,
probably twenty-five or thirty in all. Sew
eral of these are likely to die. / cannot
at this time give the names of all the
wounded.
As the dispatch is being written, troops
are still pursuing the Indians in every
direction
The correspondent says the Indians
must have been mad to have attacked the
number of soldiers who were gathered
about them, there being only 120 bucks
The treacherous deed, coming at the
time it did, was surprise, and the cor
respondent doubts if any of the Indians
will be left alive to tell the tale when the
soldiers get through the days work. The
members of the Seventh cavalry have once
more shown themselves heroes in deeds of
daring. Single condicts of great bravery
We're seen all over the field
CHICAGO, Dec. Ca special from Pine
Ridge agency says: This afternoon a
troop of cavalry was fired on by Indians
from Rosebud camp, near Pine Ridge. A
skirmish followed in which two soldiers
were wounded. The casualties among the
Indians are unknown. Much excitement
is seen among the other Indians at the
agency and it is feared lot of the young
bucks will slip away tonight. Owing to
the absence of the cavalry they could not
be pursued with any degree of success.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-Another special from
the scene of the battle asserts that five
troopers were killed outright and at least a
dozen mortally wounded. The cores
pondent expresses the belief that not one
of Big Foot's band is left alive tonight.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-A bulletin from Pine
Ridge agency received at 5 o'clock this
morning, says that lighting is now going
on between the Indian police and some OF
the Indians recently returned from Bad
Lands. 1t is impossible to learn now how
serious it is. There is much anxiety at
the agency, where there are only few
companies of infantry