Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-10-14
MAJOR WILKINSON KILLED.
More Troops Ordered to the Scene
seven Killed

Seven Killed
Washington, Oct. 6.-Secretary Bliss
telephoned the war department that he
had lust received a dispatch from Agent
Tinker at Walker in which he stated
that boat had just arrived from the
scene of the battle and reported that Ma
ior Wilkinson, one sergeant and four
privates were killed, also that deputy
marshal WAS wounded and an Indian po-
liceman killed. That the two hundred
troops on the way to the battlefield are
not enough.
The war department has ordered ad-
ditional troops to start Immediately.
Battle StilI in Progress.
St. Paul, Mimi, Oct. Ga Walker spe.
cial, brought from the scene Of action,
has Just arrived.
The fighting is still in progress. A spe-
cial train with 200 additional soldiers
will arrive here at 2 p. M, and they will
be transferred to the scene of action as
soon as possible.
Not more than four Indians have been
killed and only two wounded. Captain
Shehan says the Pillagers do not number
more than 100, but they fight as only
savages can. They are holding out now
with the hope that the Carcass Lake
Indians will come to their assistance. If
they should arrive before our troops are
reinforced the soldiers will have a des-
perate time of it.
After the reinforcements get here it
will take two hours to embark them and
two hours more for them to get to Sugar
Point, therefore the best that can be ex-
pected is that they may be able to render
lauch assistance by daylight Friday.
Ten Were Killed.
Minneapolis, Oct, Ga special from
Walker says:
] have just met an Indian named Nah
&c Cub 30, who came from Bear island
i'll canoe at a. m. He says the loss of
| the whites is 10 killed and Is wounded.
He denies that the troops have been wip-
ed out, but says the Indians have had the
best of it, Their loss, he claims, does not
exceed five killed and wounded. Have
other information that there are SO dead
Indians within mile OF the landing.
The Journal boat brought out II. S.
1alnian, deputy marshal, and Colonel
Shehan. Shehan was shot in the abdo-
men. While the boat was transferring
the wounded man she Was fired on from
the brush.
This was the signal for an immediate
ieopening of hostilities. The troops open
ed on the Indians and in second there
was as fierce fight in progress as that
OF yesterday. The firing became so hot we
were compelled to weigh anchor and
steam out into the lake. The Indians APP
pear to be in force. Bacons command Is
too small to take the aggressive. The
detachment is entrenched in good posi-
tion and can hold out so long as ammun-
ition lasts
The steamer Chief was met by my boat
eight miles out and has arrived ere this.
She carried posse of armed men. Major
Wilkinson was shot and killed while
walking up and down admonishing the
men to keep their heads low. The fight
is not half over yet. The biggest battle
remains to be fought.
Fought From Ambush,
st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. 6.-The Globes
correspondent at Walker telegraphed the
following account OF yesterdays battle:
Company L of the Third United States
infantry, commanded by Major Wilkiu-
son, Lieutenant Ross and under charge
OF General Bacon, was ambushed and
trapped by the Pillager Indians at Bear
Island. The battle was a complete sur
prise to the troops, and on the first vol.
ley four of the men were stricken down.
Soon after landing on the island Mar
shall Shehan arrested an Indian named
Nah Quod. After this Indians arrest
the troops formed in small parties and
marched about the settlement inquiring
for other recalcitrants. As the party
started to return to the steamer the am
pushed Indians opened fire. The troops
sought shelter as volley after volley was
poured in by the redskins, whose loca-
ton could only be determined by the
smoke from their guns.
Major Wilkinson's company fired regu-
lar Volleys into the brush. At IL o'clock
the Indians turned attention to the two
steamers which brought the troops. The
vessels were obliged to put out into the
lake and head for Walker. Several per-
sons on board the steamers were
wounded.
ReinfOrcements Sent,
minneapolis, Oct. Ga special train left
Fort Smelling this morning with com
panies b, F and H, under command of
Lieutenant Colonel Harbach of the Third
infantry. 1t will be rushed to the front,
but cannot reach Walker before 2 o'clock.
There are 200 picked men in the detach.
Inent.
sherman HOar Dead -s-