Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-07-27

Settlement at Teton Basin Also-Troops Not Duo to Arrive Until This Morning. The Settlers at Jackson Hole Had Been Preparing For the Worst and Probably
 Fought Desperately, but Were 0utnnm- bered-The News of the Massacre Con- sidered Authentic.
 PoCATELLo Ida, July 27. William Ross of the firm of Ross, Grey & Wyatt
 has just arrived at Market Lake from St. Anthony, and reports that everybody at l Jackson hole was killed Friday morning. It is considered authentic news, and the | excitement is intense. United States troops i from Cheyenne will arrive in 1his city this
 morning and will leave immediately for | Market Lake and thence by wagon road
 tor the Fall river country.
 Courier Sargent arrived in Market Lako | Friday morning from the vicinity of Jack son hole. He left companion in the l country who intended to get into the hole | if possible and return with all the news.
 Sargent reports all the passes guarded, I and is afraid his companion will not be 1 able to obtain entrance.
 DENVER, July 27.-The News has the | following from it's correspondent at Mar ket Lake, Ida:
 NJ. J. Gray, l.. M. Tart and Senator l Hamer of Illinois and T. H. Hamer of St. Anthony all left St. Anthony Wednesday
 morning on a fishing trip to Jackson hole, taking no stock in the Indian war. Today 1 they are back, and report every man,
 woman and child in Jackson hole mur- dored.
 One of The News couriers, just returned, got far into Teton basin, which is tho | int in of that the Jackson hole citizens are all butchered. He reports that the smoke of
 q large fire can be seen several miles south | of Grand Teton, in the direction of Jack son. hole.
 There is no doubt that the redskins have fired every house and cabin, and by morn 1 ing they will be repeating their work this
 side of the Teton range, in Teton basin,
 and perhaps, after that, all down the Te
 ton river valley in Idaho.
 Were seventy-flve Families There. Two hundred Utes were seen to have
 gone north to join the Indians in Hoback
 basin early this week. Small parties of Lemhis have been slipping daily across
 the Conant trail, something they have not ventured to do since the Yellowstone Ma
 tional park was enlarged in 1891. 1 People in St. Anthony, Roxburg and
 other towns located in Idaho between the
 railroad and Jackson hole have been all
 along placing no confidence in the Indian
 scare, as they called it.
 l Ike Hall the well known travelling man
 for the Symns Grocery company of Salt
 Lake, arrived in Pocatello having come
 directly here from q trip through the very portion of country south of the Yellow
 stone National park in which the bush whacking campaign is being carried on
 between barric,e3 .d settlers and ambushed
 Indians. Hall, after careful inquiry,
 learned that there are 75 heads of families
 in the Jackson Hole valley.
 For two weeks they had been preparing
 for the condition that now exists. In or
 der to forestal the Indians messengers
 were sent to buy up all the ammunition
 that could be obtained in that section of the country, and they had on hand about 100 rifles, and every settler was sup
 piled with 1000 rounds of ammunition. | The fear was expressed that when the In-
 dians learned that the troops were surely coming they would endeavor to make
 sudden strike and then make all haste for
 tho reservations, and by the time the reg
 ulars got there they would be peaceably 1 lounging in their accustomed haunts.