The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-01-02
WOUNDED KNEE.
Detailed Account Of the Desperate
Indian Fight
The CARRIAGE REPORTED GREAT.
About $50 Indians and 90 Soldiers Killed
and Tyouaded-Chief Two Strike At
taeks = Wagon TraIn-EHis EsPuIss
with Many Wounded

OMAHA, Neb., Dec. s1.-''In the morn
/ ing, as soon as the ordinary military
/ work of the early day was done" wires
the Bees correspondent at the camp or
Wounded Knee creek of Mondays en-
| gagement, Major Whiteside deter
mined upon disarming the Indians al
once and at o'clock the camp of Big
| Foot was surrounded by the Seventh
! cavalry and scouts The Indians were
/ sitting in a half circle. -Four Hotchlziss
/ guns We're placed upon the hill about
/ 200 yards distant Every preparation
/ was made not especially to fight, but to
show the Indians the futility of resist
/ ance- They seemed to recognize this
/ fact and when Major Whiteside ordered
/ them to GENE mp twenty at time, and
1 give up their arms they came, but NOT
with their guns in sight. of the first
/ twenty, but two displayed arms. These
they gave up sullenly, and observing the
/ futiiity OF that method of procedure,
/ Major Whiteside ordered q detachment
I of X and 4 troops on foot to enter the
/ tepees and search them This work had
hardly been entered upon when the 120
desperate Indians turned upon the sol
diers, who were gathered so closely
shout the tepees and Immediately a
storm of firing was poured upon the
military. 1t was thought the order to
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 The reply was immediate, how
ever, and in an instant it seemed that
the draw in which the Indian camp was
set was a sunken Vesuvius.
1.-THE soldiers, maddened at the sight
of their falling comrades, hardly await
ed the command and in a moment the
-E,r,1e 81, Of
which the smoke rolled obscuring the
central scene from view. Through this
horrible curtain single Indians could be
seen at times flying before the fire, but
after the first discharge from the car
bines of the troopers there were few of
them left They fell on all sides like
grain in the course of scythe. The
Indians and soldiers lay together and,
wounded, fought on the ground.
'Of through the draw toward the
bluffs the few remaining warriors fed,
but now evidently caring more for es-
cape than 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 forgot
every thing except only the loading and
discharging OF guns
1T was in the early part of the ARRAY
that hand to hand fighting was seen
The carbines were dubbed, sabres
cleaned and war clubs circled in the
air and came down like thunderbolts.
Bat this was only for short time. The
Indians could not stand the storm from
the soldiers. The remnant fed and the
battle became a hunt. 1t was now that
the artillery was called into requisition.
Before, the fighting was so close that
the guns could not be trained without
danger of death to the soldiers. Now,
with the Indians flying, it was easier to
reach them The Calling and HOtch-
kiss guns were trained and then began
heavy firing which lasted half an hour
with frequent heavy volley of muslxetry
and cannon. 1t was a war of extermi-
nation now with the troopers 1t was
difficult to restrain the troops. Tactics
were almost abandoned About the
only tactics was to kill"
The Bees special from Nashville,
Neb., says: ''Advices from the seat of
war gives the news of another encoun-
ter between the troops and Indians at a
point within four miles of the agency.
The Seventh and Ninth cavalry were
just coming in from Mondays battle
field, followed at some distance by
their provision train On reaching the
point named a large band of Indians,
headed by Chief Two Strike, dashed
and We're making of toward the Bad
Lands, when the cavalry wheeled and
gave pursuit In the battle which fol-
lowed over thirty Indians were wounded
and no soldiers were killed. According
to the latest reports Two Strikes In
dams had been considered peace
able and subdued, but their sud
den change of mind causes the gravest
fears here that perhaps none of the so
called friendlies can be relied upon
However, word from General Brooke
to the settlers yesterday is somewhat
reassuring, it being TO the effect that a
great body of the savages have re-
manned loyal all the while and that
nearly all the rebels are dead He fur
Their says that the settlers here are not
in danger.
News is also at hand that Colonel
Henry is now approaching the agency
with 700 Indians captured in the Bad
Lands. This is believed to include all
the remnant OF the rebels on the reser-
walton, and hopes are entertained for a
speedy settlement It has cost the lives
of about $50 Indians and about sixty
soldiers, killed and wounded, to effect
this result, if, indeed, it may be said
that peace is yet established
1.-The body of gallant Captain Wal
lace and the other dead soldiers arrived
at noon from the agency