The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-31
RED WITH INDIAN BLOOD
THREE HUNDRED BUCKS KILLED
IN MONDAYS FIGHT.

Treacherous Killing OF Their Com
radss and the Indians Shot Down
Wherever seen-Twenty-hve of the
Troopers Dead.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 30-The commits
sioner of Indian affairs this morning re-
ceived the following dispatch from Agent
d. F. Roger, dated Pine Ridge Agency,
Dec. 90: ION Wounded Knee creek this
morning, while the soldiers were disarming
Big Foot and his band after their surrender.
a fight took place which resulted in the
killing of about 800 Indians and several
soldiers, including Capt Wallace, with a
number wounded. Two Strike and his
party, who were camped on White Clay
creek Just below Red Clouds house, opened
fire on the agency from the hilltops
opposite the boarding school, wounding
two soldiers. The police returned the fire.
killing two of Two Strikes Indians and
wounding two Others. Two Strike and
hiss band retreated in a north
westerly direction from the agen-
cy and are supposed 10 be trying to make
their way back TO the Bad Lands. Thus far
the Pine Ridge Indians have taken no active
part in the war, but Big Foot, Slow Bear.
Kicking Deer and Two Strike have been
and are very active in the disturbance"
THE SURGEON GENERALS ADvICEs.
The following telegram was received by
the surgeon general Of the United States
army this afternoon, dated Pine Ridge
agency, South Dakota: 81 report that
during an engagement with the Indians
Yesterday, fifteen miles from here, and dur
ing desultory fire on the agency. the fol-
loving casualties occurred: Capt. Wal
lace, twenty-five men Of the Seventh cav
airy, and one Indian scout killed;
Lieut.. Darlington, Seventh cavalry,
Lieut. Hawthorne, second artillery, and
thirty-eight men wounded. This includes
two men of the Second infantry. Many
wounds are severe. Hospital Steward Pol-
lock was killed. have also about thirty
wounded Indians-men, women and ohil-
dren. Bach, medical director"
Another dispatch mentions Father Crofts,
q Catholic priest, as among the mortally
wounded, and Lieut. Kenzie, seventh
cavalry, as slightly wounded.
Dispatches to the army headquarters here
confirm substantially the accounts of the
newspaper correspondents. Col. Forsyth
autographed that when the firing began the
Indian women and children broke for the
hills, and comparatively few Of them were
hurt and few brought in. In Big FootAs
party were thirty-eight of Sitting Bulls
hand.
FoRsYTHE AT PINE RIDGE.
OMAHA, NER, Dec 30-Col. Forsythe
reached Pine Ridge agency this morning
with the Seventh cavalry and surviving
prisoners. He reports twenty-fiv of his
men killed and thirty-four wounded in the
fight on Porcupine creek yesterday. Gen.
Brooke has since the hght revoked his
orders for trains TO carry prisoners south
under guard. There Is only a remnant
left.
"A special to the Bee from Rushville says:
sat daybreak this morning thirty Indians
belonging to Two Strikes band tried to cap
ture the provision train of the Seventh cav
airy, two miles from Pine Ridge. The In
dians were all killed. The remains of Capt
Wallace arrived here at noon to-day, and
the body will be sent to Fort Robinson.
The people are fiocking into town by the
hundreds from the territory bordering on
the reservation"
CAUSE OF THE BLooDsHED
The Bees correspondent at the camp on
Wounded Knee creek telegraphs as follows
concerning yesterdays battle: "In the
morning, as soon as the ordinary military
work of the early day was done, Maj
Whiteside determined upon disarming the
Indians at once, and at 6 o'clock the camp of
Big Foot was surrounded by the Seventh
cavalry and Taylor's scouts. The Indians
were sitting in a half circle. Four
Hotchkiss guns were placed upon a hill
about 200 yards distant. Every prepara-
tion was made, not especially to fight, but to
show the Indians the futiliJy of resistance.
They seemed to recognize this fact, and
when Maj. Whiteside ordered them to come
on, twenty at a time, and give up their arms,
they came, but not with their guns in sight.
OF the first twenty but two or three dis
played arms. These they gave up sullenly.
ONSLAUGHT OF THE INDIANS
observing the futility of this method of
procedure, Maj. Whiteside ordered a de-
tachment of K and A troops on foot to
enter the tepees and search them. This
work had hardly been entered upon when
100 desperate Indians turned upon tine
soldiers, who were gathered closely
about the tepees. and immedi
upon the military. 1t was as though the
search had been a signal. The latter, not
anticipating any such action, had been
gathered in very closely, and the first firing
was terribly disastrous to them. A reply
was immediate, however, and in an instant
it seemed that the draw in which the Indian
camp was set was sunken Vesuvius.
MADDENED THE SOLDIERS.
1.-THE soldiers, maddened at the sight of
their fallen comrades, hardly awaited the
command, and In moment the whole front
was sheet OF fire, across which the smoke
rolled, obscuring the central body. Through
this curtain single Indians could be seen at
times flying before the soldiers fire, but
after the nrst discharge from the carbines
of the troopers there were few of them
left. They fell on all sides, like grain in
the course of the scythe.
FOUGHT AS THEY DIED.
indians and soldiers lay together and the
wounded fought on the ground Off
through the draw doward the bluffs the few
remaining warriors fed, turning occasion
ally to fire, but they were now evidently
caring more for escape that battle. Only
the wounded Indians seemed possessed of
the courage of devils. From the ground
where they had fallen they continued
to fire until their ammunition was gone or
until killed by the soldiers. Both sides for
got everything excepting only the loading
and discharging of their guns 1t was only
in the early part of the affray that hand to
hand fighting was seen. Carbines were
dubbed, sabres cleaned and war clubs
circled in the air and came down like
thunderbolts.
SHOT DOWN AS THEY FLED
''But this was only for short time. The
Indians could not stand that storm
from he soldiers-they. had not hoped
to. 1t was only a stroke of life before death.
The remnant fed, and the battle became a
hunt 1t was now that the artillery was
called into requisition. Before