Telegram-herald. ([Grand Rapids, Mich.) 18??-1892, 1891-01-01
BLOOD STIILFLOW
Another Conflict Between Soldiers
aud Hosiiles.
n Fight Near Pine Ridgs Agency Re.
suits in losses On Both SIDES -
vicisrn. Of Mondays Batsie.


INDIANS UsE Tux foKca
PINE hIpsE, :. d, Dec. si-Tnesday
cpened with al attack on the wagon
train of the Ninth Cavalry within nlile
and half north of the agency. Colonel
Henry and four companies OF the
Ninth arrived AZ d4ybreak. An hour
after the Indians fired into the
wagons In few moments both the
Seventh and the Ninth were our and in
line OF battle on the bluffs north of the
agency. The firing was seen plainly
from here. In one hour the skirmish
was over and the soldiers started for
breakfast. but were destined TO 90 with
out
4 courier arrived with word that the
Catholic Mission was on fire and the
teachers and pupils being massacred.
In twenty minutes the weary, hungry
and exhausted cavalrymen were once
more in motion. They found that the
fire, the black smoke of which conld be
plainly seen. was the day school, one
mile this side OF the mission.
The Indians were found TO number
i,s00 and over. The Seventh formed
line and began the fighting, which was
carried On by only 800 or 400 Indians
at time, while the great
mass kept concealed Colonel For
sythe suspected an ambush and did
not let them draw him on into dam
gcrous ground. Colonel Henry started
one hour later than Forsythe and, ow-
ing 10 the exhaustion of his horses, had
to travel slowly The Seventh became
surrounded by Indians, but just as the
circle was ready to charge the Ninth
broke in upon the rear and they fell
back. The weary soldiers slowly re-
treated, reaching the agency at dark.
The infantry had been ordered out. but
was stopped by the sight of the head of
the column of cavalry. The soldiers,
brave and heroic as they are, were over
powered.
There are not enough troops at this
point TO clean out these Indians. who
are still camped within seven miles of
the agency. II the infantry had gone
out the chances are that the agency
wonld have been burned to the ground
Nv TIC S,Joo SO-CdiicO 1IiCuu1lCS WIZ are
still camped near here.
Every one is exhausted. No sleep,
little food, hard riding and steady fight
ing have exhausted every one.
Owing to the firing being at long
range the damage done the troops was
small.
Lieutenant Mann, of Company K,
Seventh Cavalry, was wounded. He
was shot through the side. The first
sergeant of Company X is also wounded.
The fights of Monday and Tuesday
leave Company X without single OFF,
Ger. either commissioned or non-com-
missioned.
Clauson, private in Troop c; Kirk
patrick, Of Troop Il; K. j. Nolan, of
Troop /, and W. Kern, of Troop d,
Seventh Cavalry, were wounded.
The only man killed was private Of
Troop E, Ninth Cavalry, but his name
has not been ascertained.
The Indians were under the command
of Little Wound and Two Strike.
MONDAYS BATTLE.
OMAHA, Neb., Dec. 31.-A special to
the Bee from Pine Ridge says: The
correct list of the killed and wouaded
at Wounded Knee Monday SO far as is
now known at hospital headquarters
here, where they have all been brought,
mum bers as follows: Dead, "a; wounded,
33; missing. 8.
The list of killed and wounded is as
follows, the dead all being members of
the Seventh Cavalry; also all of the
wounded, with the exception OF four:
KILLED: George d. WaIl-ce. Captain. Com
p~nv r. .IohrsoE