Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-31
HOME RULES FUTURE
Views Differ as to the Effect Of Yes
terday's Conference.
THE BAfEMAN FAILURE ANK0UN CED
New Horrors Added to the Indian
Outbreak.
FIRE AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY.
FIRE AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY.


Again In q Fight.
CHICAGO, Dec. 31.-The following dispatch
from Pine Ridge gives another account Of the
Indian attack on the Clay Greek mission:
PINE RIDGE AGENCY, Dec. 3l.-The seventh
cavalry had just reached camp yesterday morn
ing. after repulsing the attack made on their
supply train by Two Strikes band, when .
courier arrived with word that the Catholic
mission was on fire and the teachers
and pupils were being mastered.
In twenty minutes the weary and hungry and
almost exhausted cavalry were once more in
motion. They found that the fire was
at the day school, one mile this side
mand Of Little Wound and Two Strike, to the
number of 800, were about mile beyond the
mission. The seventh formed line and began
fighting, which was carried on with 800 or 400
Indians at time, while the great mass kept
concealed. Gen. Forsyth suspected an ambush
and did not let them draw him into dangerous
ground.
Col. Henry started one hour later than For
syth and owing to the exhaustion of his horses
had to travel very slow. The seventh became
Gle was ready to charge the ninth broke in upon
the rear Of the hostiles and they vanished.
The weary soldiers slowly retreated, reaching
the agency at dark. The infantry had been or
head of the column of cavalry. The soldiers,
brave and heroic rs they we're, were greatly
outnumbered, and there are not
enough troops at this point to clean
ont these Indians, who are still camped within
seven miles of the agency The damage done
pany z, seventh cavalry, was wounded through,
the side. The first sergeant of company was
also wounded.
VICTIMS OF MONDAYS BATTLE.
OMAHA, NEB., Dec. 31.-A special to the Bee
from Pine Ridge says: The following il the cor
rect list of the killed and wounded at Wounded
Knee Monday so far as is known at the hospi-
tai headquarters here, where they have all been
brought:
TIE DEAD.
George d. Wallace, captain company K, sew
enth cavalry; John johnson, company A, sew
enth cavalry; Frey, private, company A, sew
enth cavalry; Dyer, first sergeant, company A,
seventh cavalry; Kelly; private, COM
pany A, seventh cavalry; Cain, pri-
waite, company A, seventh cavalry; Cof-
Joseph Murphy, private, company X, seventh
cavalry; Nettles, first sergeant company E,
seventh cavalry; Oscar Pollock. hospital stew
ard. U.SA.; Hodges, private, company K;
Bone, corporal, company 1; Forest. private,
pany i; Mcoue, private, company K;
Logan, private, company A; stello, private,
company b; Raglan, private, COMPANY K;
Christensen, private, company X; Raneke,
private, company D; De Frey, private, COM
of the seventh cavalry. Total, twenty-four
men.
THE WOUNDED.
Thomas Harran, private, company B, second
infantry; Robert Bunner, private, company B,
second infantry; John Coffey, private. light
battery, first artillery; Charles Harper Camp
bell, quartermaster's sergeant; Harry l..
Clifton. corporal, company X; James Ward,
sergeant, company B, seventh cavalry; H. W.
Hawthorne, first lieutenant, second artillery;
VIM Iwohey, sergeant, company b; James
private, company 1; Christopher Martin. pri-
vate, company A; John Frittle, frst sergeant.
company Z; Daniel Mcmahon, private, COM
pany A; c. Meter, private, company A; Harry
Stone, private, company d; Fred Wodaer,
Hugh McGinnis, VIM. Davis.
SIX SOLDIERS KILLED.
OMAHA, Dec. 3l.-A Bee correspondent at
Pine Ridge telegraphs that Gen. Brooke has
received news from the scene of the fight at the
Catholic Mission on Clay Greek that six men
of the seventh cavalry have been killed and
many wounded. Further particulars have not
yet been received. The first intimation Of the
trouble at the mission was brought late yester-
day afternoon by q courier who rushed
In with the startling news that the
mission building. where there are q number Of
Catholic priests and sisters and hundreds Of
children was surrounded by hostiles and had
been set on fire. The cavalry men, who had
had scarcely any rest for four days, were in
stantly in the saddle and with couple of
Hotchkiss guns started on a gallop for the mis-
sion- As the dispatch was being written the
roar of the guns could be heard, indicating
that hot fight was in progress. Two Strike,
Little Wounded, Short Bull and other
chiefs ran away from the agency
Monday night after hearing of the
Wounded Knee fight, taking with them hun-
dreds OF warriors They also compelled the
old chief, Red Cloud, to accompany them
under threat of death. It is these Indians who
attacked the supply train and raided the Cath
Ole mission.
VIGOROUS CAMPAIGN TO BEGIN.
ST.. PAUL, Dec 31.--A Dickinson, n. D., special
to the Pioneer Press says: Maj. Carrolls COM
mand arrived at New England City Monday
afternoon, returning from the Cave Hills.
Capt Fountaine, whom he had been sent to
relieve, ia ordered to report to him for
duty, and in few days Mai Carroll
will march to the forks Of the Grand river
where he viii be joined by two troops Of the
eighth cavalry under Capt. Fechet from Fort
Yates. II is believed that the bands Of Sioux
now on the war path will move north, and Maj
Carroll from his permanent camp on
the Grand river viii patrol the country
far west the Little Missouri and as far east
as Fort Yates His five troops of cavalry
and two companies Of infantry are at present
considered sufficient to control the situation.
The camps on the Cannon Ball and Dickinson
| are 10 be broken up as being considered neces-
sary.