Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-10-12
INDIAN WAR

Leech Lake, Minnesota, last week
How many white people have been
killed is not yet known. Troops under
| General Bacon We're hurried forward
and considerable fighting was done
! Settlers by scores have fled from their
habitations. The fight between the
| troops and Indians took place on the
day Colonel Stone and his orators were
holding a meeting in Mifiiintown. The
Minneapolis Tribune, had a correspond.
, ent i'm the fight and he says. We were
down at the landing waiting for the
row boats sent by Bacon, when a shot
was fired, we ran back to the rest on
the hill, when a volley came from the
| woods to the front of u.s.
"Run to cover ~ some one cried, and
as the soldiers grabbed their guns and
ran to the left, hurried down to the
beach where | was soon safely housed
| behind big boulders and brush AS
| ran down, however, more bullets chased
me, and it was a wonder that myself
and those with me were not killed.
I" Steady men, steadyr was the first
sound of voice we heard, and as !
raised my head | could zee General
Bacon running about with his troops.
Get up in the firing line WAS the next
order given, and the men of the fight
ing Third were seen to run through the
grass and woods in the direction from
which the shots had been fred
another peep above the stone be-
hind which lay, and peep at a great
chance of death, and / saw Major
Wilkinson and Lieutenant Ross calling
to their men To advance. All the time
the shots were fast and furious, and the
bullets flew few inches above our
heads as we lay on the beach The
men continued TO advance. The three
officers were everywhere, Major Will-
inson in charge of the left flank, Gen
eral Bacon in charge of the centre and
Lieutenant Ross in charge of the right
flank. The soldiers were running
along, it appeared to me, on their
hands and knees, dropping every mo-
ment to fire volley into the ranks of
of the enemy. The officers, however,
stood in the open. They were brave
almost to recklessness, and seemed only
to consider the safety of their men, for
they advised them what to do in tones
that could be heard all over the Point.
'FOr 80 minutes there was a cease
less roar, and every little while we
could hear cries of the men who had
been shot. l looked up once and saw
that Major Wilkinson had been injured
but where ] did not know. / heard
him cry: Ross, I've been wounded,
but won't give up, for it's not bad
The next moment as ne stood right
back of his firing line, calling to his
men: Give it to them. boys you got
them going give it 10 them; they are
towards, and they're going to rum he
seemed to stagger, and Surgeon Ross
ran towards him.
Give them hell, General give
them hell Wilkinson called Mt the top
of his voice over toward the central
flank, where General Bacon was taking
aim at a red man. Then be fell into
the arms of the doctor, who carried
him into the log cabin at the crest of
the hill, where he died i'm one hour and
thirty minutes later. His was the
death of soldier, and such a death as
he expressed to me a few minutes be
fore he desired to experience for the
Major and myself had walked back
from the scouting tour together.
at was an awful sight but strange
as 1t seems, we reporters down upon
the bank talked back and forth of what
a good story it would be and did not
realize our position until the big battle
was over and the shots We're fewer, and
we had nothing TO think about except
the fact that we might follow the foot
steps OF the Major.
about the same time the Major fell
Private Powell, who was running from
one cover to another, was seen to drop,
and in the evening after darkness had
come he was carried to the little cabin,
the victim of another bullet from the
Indians Winchesters.
1.-The stripes on the sleeves of another
man whom saw throw up his hands
and drop his gun told ME that ser
geant had been nit. AS he fell he clap
ped one of his hands to his head, and
I learned that he was Ser
geant Butler, and that he had been
killed instantly by shot through his
head. AS he fell Lieutenant Ross.
who had charge of the two hanks after
the injury sustained by Major WilkiE-
son, was seen to drop upon his knees
and fire in the direction i'm which the
shot that had killed Butler had come.
They told ME afterwards that Ross got
his man.
''After that the men were out of
sight up in the woods and behind the
cabin, and we could only lay on the
beach and wonder when our end
would come, for we did not know but
that the soldiers had been annihilated.
There was no let up in the firing.
suddenly to our right we heard the
voice of Colonel Sheehan, of ST. Paul,
Deputy United States Marshal. We
glanced up and could see the veteran
Indian fighter leading an advance by a
portion of the right flank You've got
them whipped, boys; you've got them
whipped. Give it to them give it to
them the Colonel was yelling at the
top of his voice.
Every time his voice was heard a
volley rang out, and every time it was
further away away from us. After
wards we learned that we had the Col