The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-12-31
The INDIAN WAR.
Additional Information of the Battle
With Government troops.

Additional Information Of the Battle
With Government sroops.
WAsuiNGrON, DO :'. Additional iatoI-
nation concerning Oh. battle ye-t0 rday be-
tween Govern sut troois and nsurgenf
Indians WAS c.rN"d fhp lrdlan Bureau
-0-day from Indian Agent Roger, OF Pine
Ridge agency, WnO trlcgrIpped 10 Commits
,iOner Morgan as follows. On Wounded
Knee creek this morniug. while the soldiers
yere GisarmmZ Is e Foot and his banC
after their surrender, light took
place, which resulted IN the KILL
ng Of about three hundred Indians
md several OF the soldiers including Cap
ain Wallace with number wounded.
rwO Strike and his party, WhGL were on
White Clay creek, just below Red Cloud,
house. opened fire on the agency from IN,
hill-tOps opposite the bOdrdng-schOOl
Nounding two soldiers. The police opened
ire, killing TWO OF Two strikes Indians ano
WOunding others. Two strike and his banu
nave retreated in "a nOrthwcsterly direction
rom the agency, and It Is supposed be- l-
irving tO make his way back 90 the Bad
Lands. Thus tar The Pine Ridge lnllan,
ave taken no active part m the matter
BIZ Foot, Kicking Bear aud Two s,rih'.
.nd his band, have been and are taking al
.ctiye part I'm the disturbance.
Commissioner Morgan sent the dispatcl
To Secretary Noble, VINO Immediately tOob
Il 10 the President
GENERAL MILES DESCRIBES THE FIGHT
WAsHINGTON, ID. c., Dee, 3O.-MuIor
General schOheld this afternoon received
tne following telegram from General Miles
which eptOmises the results ot the lates
idyices rsceyed about the Indian Ugh
near Pine Ridge Agency Yesterday:
"HerlHcSa. =. d.. Dee. 3O.-Coi0ne
FOrsythe SAYS siXty-two dead Indian
men were counted ON the plan
where the attempt was made tO dlsarn
| Biz FoOt's band, and where the tight begaI
N other parts OF the ground we're eighteel
men These do not include those killed 10
raynes where dead warriors were seen' Du
not counted. Six were hrou-h ht IN badly
wounded and six others were with a pau
Il twenN-three men and women, Whitl
Captain Jackson had 10 abandon when ai
tackled by about one hundred and MT.
Brule Indians from the Agency.
This accounts comments Genera
| Brooke. for ninety-tWO men killed an'
leaves but few alive and unhurt. The womei
and children broke for the hills when Oh.
| isht commenced. and comparatively few o
hem were hurt ana few brought iu
| rhirty.nine are here OF which number
fweniy-One are wounded. Had II no
been for the attack By the Brue
an accurate account would haNl
Deen made, but the rdyines were no
| searched afterwards. ! think this show
very little apprehension from Big Foot
band in the future. \ party of iOrtY IL IL
ported as held Oy the scouts AT the head u
Mexican creek. These consist OF all -ize
ana the cavalry from Rosebud will brin
them in II II Ii true
These Indians" says General Miles
''unaer Biz Foot were among toe most des
| perite. There were thirty-eight Ot the re-
| mainder OF the Cheyenne river and thift
| that broke away from Humps follow "a
when he took his band and the sitting Bhl
Indians 10 Fort Bennett, making in al
nearly one hundred and sixty warrior'
Before leaving their camps on To-
Cheyenne river they cut up thel
harness, muiilated their wagons. an
started sOIth for the Btd Lands, evidentl
intending not 10 return, bat to 20 10 WA
Troops were placed between them and th
Bad Lands, and they never succeeded
ioining the hosties there. All their NOV
ments were interrupted, and their sever
loss al tue hands OF the seventh Cayall
may be a wholesome lesson 70 the othi
sioux"
OMAHA, NEB., Dec. 3O.-CO.onel Forsyth
reached Pine Ridge agency to-day with q
seventh cavalry and the surviving pri
oners. He reports twenty-five Of his me
killed an, thirty-i0ur wounded in the NJ
on Porcupine creek yesterday.
| ANOTHER BATTLE WITH REDSKINS.
Another bloody bdttle between the re-
skins and tue troops was fought with
sight o. the agency early this morning,
which thirty-three or the hostlles OF IV
Strikes band were killed and number
} soldiers f,ll dead or were severely wOunde