The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-04
THE BOOM OF CANNON.
1t Tells Affrighted Settlers Of
an Indian Battle.
RED CLOUD WANTS PEACE.
Miles Has Eight Thousand Men, the
Sayages Three Thousand.
RED CLOUD WANTS PEACE.
Soldiers Go Out to Bury the Corpses at
Wounded Knee-Two Strikes and
Other Chiefs Intimidate Friendlies-
Rowing Bands scour the snowy Plains

miles northeast of this place. The booming of
cannon can be distinctly heard. Everybody is
under arms. The widest excitement exists.
company of state troops is expected tonight.
Bees Pine Ridge special says: Twenty-one
OF the wounded soldiers will be taken to Fort
Riley, Kan, tomorrow night by special train.
There have been no new developments today re-
garding the hostiles, except that Red Cloud tried
to slip away from them and return to the
agency. When the fact was discovered by the
hostiles they shot all his ponies, placed guard
over the old chief and moved several mile
further from here. This last move places their
main camp but few miles from the Bad Lands,
but warriors, according TO the reports OF scouts,
keep circling within ten or dozen miles of
here all the time. 1t is considered among the
possibilities that the party that went out today
to bury the dead Indians at Wounded Knee will
encounter trouble with hostile scouts before
they get their big job completed.
LINCOLN, Neb., Jan. s--Tonight's special to
the Journal from Pine Ridge confirms the report
OF an engagement between General Cars COM
mand and Indians on White river. 1t is be-
We're wounded. An Indian courier brings
message from the hostile camp, the substance
OF which is demand that all soldiers be
Withdrawn from the locality, and further. that
they win treat with no one for peace but the
vice president of the United States or the COM
missioner OF Indian affairs. This message came
direct from the hitherto supposed friendly chief
Red Cloud. Rowing bands continue to scour
the country in the vicinity of Pine Ridge Many
persons coming in tell of narrow escapes. The
Indian training school at Pine Ridge was burned
last night. no loss OF life resulting.
A small detachment of troops has been sent to
the scene OF Mondays battle on the Wounded
Knee, where many of the bodies OF the slain still
remain. These will be either buried on the
ground or brought to the agency
DENVER, Jan. "a special from Cheyenne to
the Rocky AoantGta News says: A dispatch from
White river tells of fight between K troop,
Sixth cavalry, and party Of Indians, Four In
dians were killed, with no loss to the troops.
ST. PAUL, Jan. 8. "A Pioneer Press special from
Pierre, S. D.. says: 1t is reliably reported that
the hostile Indians have sent out runners to all
the Indian camps, notifying them of the battles
and calling upon them for aid. One of their
runners has made his appearance among the In
dams up Red river and has been using every
means to incite them into joining the conflict.
The army officials have been notified An In
dian trader at Fort Pierre says he has sold more
red paint to the Indians within the last few days
than for years
MINNEAPoLIs, Jan. 3.-A special to the Tribune
from Mason City, Iowa, says: The Sixth regi-
ment, Iowa National Guards, has been ordered
to be in readiness to march to the frontier for
service against the Indians
special TO the Tribune from Mandan n D..
says. Company b. Tweaty-second infantry,
has been ordered to Fort Yates from the Cannon
Ball. 1t is reported that the friendly bucks at
Standing Rock have gone out to Join hostiles,
They told Agent Mclaughlin that they would
sooner be killed in war than slaughtered in
peace
WASHINGTON CITY, Jan. S.-The forces now in
the field under command of General Miles are
composed OF the following regiments: First,
Sixth, Seventh, Eight and Ninth cavalry; one
company of the First artillery, Company E; one
company of the Fourth artillery, Company F,
and the First, Second, Third, Seventh, Eighth,
Twelfth. Sixteenth. Seventeenth, Twenty-frst,
Twenty Second and Twenty-dfth infantry, max
ing in all fifteen companies. This should mean
an actual fighting force OF at least 10000 officers
and men, but 1t is probable the ranks are far
from full and that the force does not exceed
5000 men at most.
General Schofield this morning received the
following telegram from General Miles, dated
Pine Ridge, January 2:
"There is a report from the Indian camp that
Red Cloud and Little Wound are determined to
come in with their followers, but their lives
have been threatened by the hostiles, who are
determined to go to war. There is report
from the same source of an enlightenment between
the Indians and cavalry, in which number of
soldiers were killed and some Indians If this
Il cOrreCt II pfODaDiy occurred on the line or
White river. General Brooke now has COM
mand of that line, and will give the necessary
directions
General Schofeld said To a reporter after this
telegram was given out, that nothing additional
had been received up TO the present time He
continued: al still have hopes that we shall yet
be able TO get the Indians into camp without
fight"
The commissioner of Indian affairs today re-
ceived from Indian Agent Royer the following
dispatch, dated Pine Ridge, January q
''Nos. and g. day school buildings, and the
Episcopal church located on White Clay creek a
little distance from the agency, were burned BY
hostile Indians last night. Isaac Miller white
man, formerly employed as beef herder,
was killed by hostile Indians yesterday,
ten miles forth of the agency
About 5000 men, women and children en-
camped near the mouth of Grass creek, fifteen
miles northeast of the agency, are hostile, and
refuse to come into the agency, as requested by
the military. They are committing all kinds of
depredations and living OF our agency beef
herd. Little Wound Big Road, Red Cloud and
their people are among them, and ii is reported
that they want TO come into the agency, but
Two Strikes, Short Bull, Kicking Bear and their
people object, and they say they Will kill the
first one that starts 70 the agency. Report has it
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