Evening star., 1898-10-07
BACON HEARD FROM
Sends List of His Casualties to De-
partment Headquarters.
SAYS THE INDIANS ARE SCATTERING
Fears at Walker That They Are
Being Reinforced.
FIGHT EXPECTED TOMORROW

| MINNEAPOLIS Mimi, October Gen.
Bacon has at last been heard from. He
has telegraphed list of the casualties to
army headquarters in St Paul.
| The steamer Flora has arrived at walker
bringing in the killed and wounded Fol-
| lowing is complete list of those Killed
and wounded in Wednesdays engagement:
| The killed-Major Melville Wilkinson
Sergeant VIM. Butler, Pr.vates Edward
Lowe John Olmstead, John Swallenstocker
and Alfred Zebell.
The wounded-E. E. Antonello, shot in
| leg: Sergeant Levy Ayers, shot in neck;
Richard Boucher. shot through the shoul-
| der; Edward Brown, shot in face; John
DAILY, shot in the thigh; Charles Francis,
Private Godfrey, shot through the Shout
der; Charles Jelsen, Albert Schuyler
| Charles Turner, shot through the shoulder;
George Wicker, shot in leg.
Wounded civilians-Edward Harris, city
| marshal of Walker: Joseph Oscar, pilot of
| steamer Jennie; T. j. sheehan, deputy
United States marshal; Tinker, Indian in
| spector; Henry Walters, engineer of tug
| Jennie.
| Gen. Bacon is Unhurt.
| Gen. Bacon is unhurt and all newspaper
| correspondents have been accounted for and
are uninjured, though they were at one
| time under the same fire which thinned the
| ranks of the troops.
| Lieut. Col. Harbach says that Cen Bacon
| will come in TO Walker from Bear Island
| today and a council will be held, at which
it will be decided what the next moves in
! the campaign shall be.
| General Bacon sent word that the Indians
| have scattered from his front and taken
! refuge in the dense tangle of the surround
| ing forest.
| "A special to the Journal from Walker,
| Minn, says: w atChtrs around the town last
| night report this morning that signal lights
We're flashing back and forth on the oppo-
! site shore of the lake last night. and are
fearful that large bodies of Indians from
| other reservations reached the Pillager
| camp during the night. The situation to-
| day is one of nervous anticipation with un
| Certainty everywhere. The tug Flora left
| at o'clock this morning to bring out Gen.
| Bacon and his men, and pending their re-
| turn there will probably be nothing done.
| Indications are that both sides viii rest to-
| day. with a fair prospect of resumption of
| hostilities again tomorrow unless the In
dians surrender in meantime or make over
| lures for peace.
| Indians Ready to Surrender.
| Gus Beaulieu, who knows the Indians in
| ard around Ieech lake intimately, is conf
| dent that they will today ask for terms of
| peace
Beaulieu made a tour of the lake yester-
| day in the Journal dispatch boat Jennie,
arriving in Walker late last night. He
| brought word that four of those for whom
| warrants have been issued have given
| themselves up to the chiefs of their
| spective tribes, by whom they will be given
| up today at the conference they have ask
ed with Agent Sutherland. AS proof that
| the intentions of the Indians are more
| friendly. Beau,ieu points to the fact that
all Indians now coming INTO the agency
| are bringing their wives and children,
| something they would hardly do their
intentions hostile
Chief Gay-Gwa-Che-Way- Ming CT
| Bear Island, who mas been one of the
most active in endeavoring to repress the
| rebellion, assured Lieutenant Humphrey
yesterday that everything would be ami
| cabiy settled within the next twenty-four
hours and that his tribe was anxious for
| peace. 1t must be confessed at the same
| time that Beaulieu's optimistic prophecies
| are not shared by people of Walker or sup
| ported by the reports that are constantly
| coming into town.
| Mnny Armed Indians Seem
| A courier came in this morning from a
point twenty-five miles north, and said
that during the past forty-eight hours
more than 25o Indians, all armed with
Winchesters, hive been counted by him
alone, and that they are going in the dl-
| rection of Bear Island.
One of the hostile chiefs who was spoken
to yesterday on the point near he narrows
Loa2ted tt?at ne had seen armed men as
thick as leaves in the forest, and detied
| those on board the boat to fire a shot
| one instructor in an Indian school said
| last night that despite the protestations
! OF frlends1ip, the agency Indians are III
| an ugly mood, and when they are unob-
| served they talk freely among themselves
| and that their sentiments as gathered from
several OF these pow vows he has been
| fortunate enough to oVeThear are wart;ke
| Tie fears that trouble will come from this
| source before the matter is settled.
| Or: Hat has brought his family into
| aiker. and ali of the white people at the
| agency have followed his example with a
single exeeption-Nirs. Smith, one of the
| teachers.
This seems to indicate very plainly in
what direction the wind is blowing among
| these people.
| People in and around Walker are appra-
| hensive of the outcome and are demanding
| that the redskins be pursued until they are
| broken in spirit and thoroughly cowed
| They say that if the trouble is allowed to
| drop now it viii be but short time befole
| they again become defiant and THAI life
| and property will not be safe unless the
| Indians are eXterminated.
Bacon Has indinns Whipped.
| A special from Duluth says General Ba-
| con has sent word that he has the Pillager
| band whipped, and does not need further
| renforcements. The companies of the 14th
| Minnesota now here, do not expect to be
| called on.
DETAILED STORY OF THE FIGHT.
| Lieut.. Ross of This City Proved a
! Good Fighter.
| WALKER, Mimi, October 7.-Col. ]. T.
Sheehan, deputy marshal, who was wound
| ed in Wednesdays fight arrived here early
| today, and gives a graphic account of The
| action up to the time he started back. He
says: I'VE landed about 10 O'Clock We'd