Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-12-30
I'd EDITION.
INDIANS DEADLY AIM.
Twenty-Five Soldiers Killed in Yes.
terday's Fight at Porcupine.
PARNELL AND THE ENJOYS CONFER
Foreign Notes and Comments Of
General Interest.
A TRAIN WRECKER SENTENCED
THE INDIAN REVOLT.

Particular of the Fight at Wounded Knee
Creek-The Killed and Wounded.
OMAHA Dec. 3O-The Bee has the following
from its staff correspondent on Wounded Knee
| creek, South Dakota December 30, via Rush
vile, Neb.: The remaining four troops Of the
seventh cavalry arrived from Pine Ridge
| agency at o'clock last night. At o'clock
this morning Gen. Forsythe issued orders to
have the $50 male Indians who had been pris-
oners called from their teepees, saying he
| wanted to talk to them. They obeyed slowly
and sulleniy and ranged in a semi-circle Ill
front of the tent where Big Foot. the
chief. lay sick with the pneumonia. BY twen-
ties they were ordered to give up their arms
The first twenty went 20 their tents and came
back with only two guns. This lrrltated Maj.
Whiteside, who was experimenting this part of
the work. After hasty consultation with Gen.
Forsythe he gave the order for the cavalrymen.
who were all dismounted and formed IN almost
q square about twenty-five PAGES back. TO close
in. They did so and took stand within twenty
feet of the Indians, now in their center.
DEMoNIAc RUSH.
When this was done detachment of bavalry-
men afoot was sent to search the tepees. About
sixty guns were found. but while this work was
going on the warriors 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. A dozen of the war
riors had been searched when. like fash. all
of 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.
These Indians, saying they had no guns,
rushed on the soldiers with tomahawk in one
hand and scalping knife in the other. oh, it
was demOniac, hellishly horrible rush.
AHUNDRED SHOTS IN ONE voLLEY.
With Gen. Forsythe and Maj. Whiteside I
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 Indians had their backs
turned to us when they began firing. Their
first volley was almost as one man. so that they
must have fired a hundred shots before the SOL
diers fired one but. oh. how they were slaugh
tered 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 / write these
words hear that Hotchkiss pouring shots into
the guleys to the north where few of the
wounded soldiers 30 far as we can now ascer-
tain is as follows:
THE KILLED AND WOUNDED.
KuLED-Capt. Wallace, commander Of Z
troop; Private Cook, b troop.
WoUSDED-Father Crafts, Catholic priest,
mortally in the lungs; Private Frank Lewis. B
troop; Moyrlan Miles, captain, mortally: Camp
bell. sergeant, wounded in mouth: Private
Davis. troop b. shot in the arm; Private Dun
can, troop 4. wounded in the head: Private
Stone, Private Sullivan. X troop; +. +. Smith,
X troop; Corp. Clifton, X troop; Davis Hazel
wood, Toohey, Lieut.. Darlington, Sergt. Lloyd,
Interpreter p 4. Wells, Lieut.. KinZie Trumpeter
James Choedenson, mortally; Sergt. CAMEL,
Private Zetter. A troop; Sergt. Dyer Hoduncar,
Sergt. Hotchkiss, MORALLY, Hipp A. Cook, 1
troop; Private Adams, K troop; Corp. Neell B
troop.
CAPT. WALLACE ToMAHAwKED.
This is only partial list. About dozen
more are reported seen lying es if dead. with
twenty-five or more wounded. Many of the
wounded viii die. The firing lasted half an hour.
Capt Wallace was tomahawked squarely in the
forehead. Lieut. kinZie received but a slight
wound in the cord OF The ankle.
Army Surgeons Capt. Hoff, Lieut.. kenna and
Capt. Ewing are caring for the wounded.
EXCITEMENT AT PINE RIDGE AGENCY.
CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-A special dispatch from
Pine Ridge agency, received this morning, says:
The news Of the battle at Wounded Knee ex-
cited the Indians at the agency in an alarm
ing manner. The entire camp was soon
in commotion, and the restless young bucks at
| once took to the hills, apparently eager for the
fiay. Even the most loyal of the Indians were
| affected, and the couriers themselves seemed
| eager for blood. 1t was not long before desul-
tory firing was heard near the agency.
Little Wounds men have fed back to the
range north of here toward Two Strike. and
both gangs are preparing to attack the agency.
The firing last night was just west of the school
house and between the police and Two Strikes
gang. Bullets whistled pas: the buildings in
| startling way. The troops here are the infan-
| try under Maj. Wheaton, with one gatlng four
heavy guns and one Hotchkiss rife There
| will probably be only heavy skirmishing until
| morning. Every one hopes that the troops will
arrive from. the railroad by that time.
| FIVE THOUSAND SIOUX IN CAMP.
There are 5000 Sioux encamped about the
| agency buildings. Their tepees are pitched in
| a hemispherical way TO the north, west and east
and along a deep ravine, through which CLAW
\ creek runs If all these Indians revolt it would
not take them long to wipe out the handful of
4 infantrymen from Omaha and massacre the
\ entire camp. Every building at the agency is
| built of wood, and after looting the traders
| stores and the government store houses the In
| dams could complete their work in short order
| by applying the torch. The Indian school
houses, which are just west of the agency build
ings and within rifle shot of Gen. Brooke s head
/ quarters, are immense wooden structures.
There are nearly 200 Indias boys and girls in
the schools. The teachers are whites and half
breeds People who can leave the agency are
doing as rapidly as possible.
| TWENTY-FIVE SOLDIERS KILLED.
OMAHA, NEB., Dec. 30--Col. Forsythe
reached Pine Ridge agency this morning with
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