The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1891-02-11
GENERAL MILES DENOUNCED.
a st. Paul Nan Accuses the Indian Warrior
of Massacre.


of Massacre.
CHICAGO, Feb. 4.-Gus Beaulieu, a resi-
dent of st. Paul and widely known among
the Indians of the Northwest, in an inter
view says: 'The whole truth of this
sad business will come out some day,
and when it does some OF the events
that preceded the Custer massacre
and led up that bloody butchery
will startle the country. 1 think it was
in April, 1S76-something like two months
preceding the annihilation of Clusters
command-that Miles and his soldiers
rushed in one day upon an Indian
village in Montana and killed every man,
woman and child in it. Bucks, squaws
aud papooses were shot down without
mercy. There were between two hundred
and three hundred Indians killed. The
village was far from the railroads and the
telegraph and information of the horrible
affair did otreach the government and the
people until alter the Custer massacre, and
then, of course, the public mind was so
occupied with the Custer massacre that
no attention was paid to the previous mas
sacre of the Indians When the Sioux met
Custer they expected no quarter and they
gave none. Even had the whole truth
about the outrage committed bv Miles
and mis- soldiers been known at that time
no action would have been taken, such
was the excitement and prejudice against
the red men.
''The Indians throughout the entire
Northwest have agreed to send represen-
tatives to some point not yet designated
10 roll daf0 md f0afa 4
ing the Miles outrage in Montana,
the starvation at Pine Ridge, Cheyenne
and Rose Bud agencies and the failure OF
the government everywhere to keep
treaties. This council will be held as soon
as practicable, and certain chiefs will be
designated to go on to Washington to
present all the facts, their wrongs and
grievances, ana more especially to expose
the whole truth in regard TO the outrage
committed before tue Custer massacre"
Capt Higgins of Gen Miles staff re-
plying to the interview said: THAT mas
saCre story is absolutely untrue. Nothing
in which Gen. Miles was engaged ever
occurred that could remotely suggest it.
In all the numerous occasions where
Gen. Miles has captured Indians it has
been really ASTONISHING how few werc
killed or wounded. At the time of the
only aHalr Jnat remember IN Montana
where a considerable number of Indian
women and children were killed by L.
5. troops, Gen. Miles was hundreds OF
miles distant. That was the surprise of
band of Piegans which aroused loud ac-
cusations OF inhumanty and willful
slaughter. 1t was several years before
the Custer massacre but the ST.
Paul man perhaps has confounded Gen.
Miles into some connection with the
matter, though altogether enormously.
Those who are acquainted with Gen.
Miles know that there is no Eastern senti-
mentalist who would be more keenly
panied than he by the sight of any unnec-
cessary bloodshed or slaughter of single
woman or child"
The report of the army officers detailed
by Gen. Miles to investigate the fight
between the Indians and the troops at
Wounded Knee Creek, involving Col. For
sythe of the Seventh cavalry, has been
received at the war department and is be-
ing considered by Secretary Proctor and
Gen. SchOfield.