St. Paul daily globe., 1890-12-30
Slain BY FIENDS
fifty Soldiers Shot Down by
Treaeherous Red
skins.
Zig Foot'S Force Refuse to
Yield Up Their Win
chesterS.
buring a Search Of Their Viii
lage They Turn Treaeh-
erously,
And Pour a Rain of Leaden
Hail Into Col. Forsythe's
cavalry.
{ Brave Rally Is Made and
+he Fanatics Begin Biting
the Dust.
20 Quarter Is Shown by
Troops, and the Indians
Are Slaughtered.
Brave Capt. Wallace Meets
Death by a Blow From a
TomahaWk.
{ Brave Rally Is Made and
*he Fanatics Begin Biting
the Dust.
20 Quarter Is Shown by
Troops, and the Indians
Are Slaughtered.
Brave Capt. Wallace Meets
Death by a Blow From a
TomahaWk.

CAMP ON WOUNDED KNEE CREEK.
9. D., Dec. 90, via Rushville, Neb.-
The correspondent of the Omaha Bee
ielegraphS as follows: The remaining
four troops of the Seventh cavalry az
rived from Pine Ridge agency at 9
Jclock last night. At this morn
ng Gen. ForSythe issued orders
to have the hundred and fifty male In
Hans who had been prisoners called
ErOm the tepees, saying he wanted to
.alk to them. They obeyed slowly and
Jullenly, and ranged in a semi-circle
IN front of the tent where Big
Foot, their chief, lay sick with pneu-
monia. By twenties they were ordered
10 give up their arms. The first twenty
went to their tents and came back
with only two guns. This irritated
Maj. Whiteside, who was superin-
lending this part of the work.
After hasty consultation with
Sen. Forsythe he gave the order
for the cavalrymen, who were all dis
mounted and formed in almost square
about twenty-five PAGES back. to close
In. They did so, and took a stand with
In twenty feet of the Indians, now in
their center. When this was done,
detachment of cavalrymen afoot was
sent to
Search the Tepees.
About sixty guns were found; but
while this work was going on the war
Eiors held an incarnation pow WOW.
The tepees having been gone thrOugh,an
order was given to search the warriors.
All thought of trouble was evidently
wholly out of mind with the soldiers.
About dozen OfGthe warriors had been
searched, when, like flash, when all
the rest of them jerked guns from
under their blankets and began pouring
bullets into the ranks of the soldiers,
who few minutes before had moved
up within almost gun length. Those
Indians who had no guns rushed on the
soldiers with tomahawk in one hand
and scalping knife in the other.
Oh, it was demoniac-a hellishly hor-
rible rush. With Gen. Forsythe and Maj.
Whiteside l stood when the firing
started within touching distance
of the death-dealing devils. The
only thing that saved all three of
us from instant death was that the In
dians had their backs turned to us when
they began firing. Their first volley
was almost as one man, so that they
must have fired hundred shots
before the soldiers fired one,
but. oh, how they were slaughtered
after their first Volley. Some, however,
succeeded in getting through the lines
and away to the small hills to the
southwest. The firing lasted half
hour, and even as l write these
words hear that Hotchkiss pouring
shots into the gulleys to the north, where
few Of the devils have taken refugs.
The list of killed and wounded soldiers,
so far as we can ascertain, is as fol-
lows:
Killed-Capt. Wallace, commander of
K troop; Private Cook, B troop.
Wounded-Father Croftus, Catholic
priest, mortally wounded in lungs; Prl-
vate Frank Lewis, B troop; Private
Stone, Privrte Sullivan, K troop; S. f.
Smith, K troop; Corporal Clifton, K
troop; Davis, Hazelwood, Toohey,
Lieut.. Darlington, Sergeant Lloyd, In
terpreter P. F. Wells, Lieut.. Kinsie,
Trumpeter James Choldenson. mortally
Sergeant CAMEL, Private Zetter, A
troop: Sergeant Dyer II. o. Duncan,
George Elliott, K troop; Sergeant Ward,
b troop; Sergeant Hotchkiss, mortalIy
Hipp A. Cook. 1 troop; Private Adams,
K troop; Corporal Hewell, B troop.
This is only partial list. About a
dozen more are reported seemingly as
if dead, but no more officers are killed
while twenty-five are wounded. Many
of the wounded will die. Capt. Wal
lace was tomahawked squarely in the
forehead; Lieut.. Kinsle received but a
slight wound in the cord of the ankle.