The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-02
INDIAN TREACHERY.
Hostnes Attack United Stat. D
Troops While Being Disarmed-
Captain Wallace End y Number OF Soldiers
Killed snd Many VF0unde=I-rhe rreash-
erOus Reds sIsreIIssaIy Slaughtered .
The KILLED snd VFounGed-

4
WOUNDED KNEE CREEK. Neb.. Dec
so.-Bright and early were the troops
| mp yesterday morning At o'clock
/ they were ordered TO be in readiness
At that hour the cavalry and dis
/ mounted troops were msssed about the
/ Indian village, the Hotchlxiss guns over
| looking the camp, not fifty yards away.
Colonel Forsythe ordered all the In
. dams to come forward away from the
tents They forrEedin = half circle and
were counted
The dismcunted troops were then
1 thrown around thsm-comPany X,
/ Captain Wallace, and company d, Cap
/ tain Varnum-and the order was given
to twenty Indians to go and get their
guns Upon returning it was seen that
/ only two guns were brought
Detachments at once began to search
the village, resulting in thirty-eight
/ guns being found
About a dozen Of the warriors had
been searched when like n fash all of
the rest Of them jerlCed guns from I'M
der their blankets and began pouring
bullets into the ranks of the soldiers
who few minutes before had moved
up within almost gun length. Those
Indians who had no guns rushed on the
soldiers, tOmahawlx in one hand and
scalping knife in the other. It was de-
moniacal, a hellishly. horrible rush
The Indian men. women and children
then ran to the south, the battery firing
rapidly as they ran.
Soon the mounted troops went after
them, shooting them down on every
side. The engagement lasted fully an
hour and n half. To the south many
took refuge in "A rRvine from which it
was difficult to disiOdge them.
Just now il is impossible to state the
-
are many more than fifty, however,
killed outright. The soldiers are shoot
ing the Indians down wherever found.
no quarter being given by any one
Captain Wallace, X troop, with cav
airy, was killed and Lieutenant Car
lingtOn, of Arctic fame, was shot
through the arm at the elbow. The
troops are still firing from the camp and
pursuing the enemy in every direction.
To say that it was a most daring feat
for 100 Indians TO attack 500 cavalry eN-
presses the situation but family. 1t
could only have been insanity that
prompted such deed.
The list Of killed and wounded sol
diers, so far as we can now ascertain, is
as follows:
Captain Wallace, commander of X
troop.
Private Cook, B troop, wounded.
Father Crafts, Catholic priest, NOR
tally wounded in lungs.
Private Frank Lewis, y troop
Private Stone, X troop.
Private Sullivan, X troop
s. f. Smith, X troop
Corporal Clinton, X troop.
The wounded we re: Davis, Halle
wood, TOohey, Lieutenant Darlington,
Sergeant Lloyd, Interpreter r. Z. Ellis,
Lieutenant Kinsic, TrumpeteT James c.
Holdcnson, mortally; Sergeant Camel,
n ~
H o. Duncan, Private Elliott, X troops
Sergeant Ward, b troop; Sergeant
Hotchlziss, - troop, mortally; Hipp a.
Cook, I troop; Private Adams, X
troop; Corporal Newell, B troop. This
is only a partial list About a dozen
more are reported seen lying rs II dead,
but no more officers were killed. While
twenty-five or more are wounded, many
of the wounded will die.
Captain Wallace was tOmahRwl1ed
squarely in the forehead. Lieutenant
Kinsie received but slight wound in
the ankle. Army surgeons, Captain
Hoff, Lieutenant KennH and Captain
Ewing are caring for the wounded.
FIGHTING ABOUT PINE RIDGE.
RUssELIvILLE, Neb., Dec. 3O.-When
the news of yesterdays fight at
Wounded Knee creek reached the
agency at Pine Ridge pRndemonium
broke loose among the 5000 Indians
gathered there and a large mum Der OF
these broke awny- The friendly In
dams, including Red Cloud, joined the
army forces under General Brooke. At
shutdown fighting had commenced with
in three miles of the agency buildings
and determined effort was being
made by the reds TO reach and burn the
agency An Indian village of friendlies
in plain sight of the agency was seen to
go up in flames just before dark
These facts We're from an official
courier who was an eyewitness to the
trouble that occurred at and near the
agency.
GENERAL MILES REPORT.
WAsHISGToN, Dec. 3O.-Oficial dis
patches from General Miles dated Rapid
City, s. D., were received last night by
General Schofield, telling of a fight in
the Bad Lands between the Indian hos
tiles and the white troops. The dis
patches were first sent by General
Brooke to General Miles. The first is
as follows: ''Whiteside had four troops
of cavalry and held the Indians till
Forsythe reached him with four more
troops last night. At $3.50 this morning
while disarming the Indians the fight
commenced. think very few Innians
have escaped ] think we Will have this
matter in hand as soon as all are in po-
sition- There was no precaution omit
ted. The fight occurred near the head
of Wounded Knee creek"
Easy GoInE Relations.
RATTTsrORE Nd -TVfl1fnvv,