Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-10-13
THE INDIAN WAR.
Trouble at the Minnesota Agen-
cieS About Over and Red
skins Quieting Down.
Gen. BACON RIPORTS TO WASHINGTON.
Our Loss Was Six Killed, Including
Two Officers. and One Officer and
Nine Men Wounded.
The Number of Indians Killed impossible
to Estimate-The Enemy Has seat
tered to the Various Islands In
That Vicinity In Canoes.

WALKER, Mimi. Oct GA hard
fight with the Indians occurred We'd
ncsday and the reports from the scene
of the battle on the other side of Leech
lake are somewhat conflicting, al
though all reports agree that the re-
of blood and some loss OF life on both
sides
The Pillager and other neighboring
Indians of the White Earth reserva-
ton claim to have many reasons for
their present outbreak, although the
direct trouble with the Pillagers comes
over attempts To bring in some of the
Indians To the United States court AT
Duluth in connection with liquor SELL
ing cases
ERAINERp, Mimi, Oct 7.-Adjutant
General, Washington: Walker, Mimi,
Oct whilst protecting United
States marshal at this camp on Leech
lake, opposite Bear island, with a de-
tachment of so men, Sd infantry, was
attacked by large force of Chippewa
| Indians at noon to-day. Indians fight
ing from heavy timber and underbrush;
Indians driven back. Our loss was
killed: Capt. Wilkinson, SerGt Butler,
Privates Olmstead and Ziebell. Wound
cd: Sergt Ayres, Privates Daley, Bou-
cher, Brown, Wicker, Jensen, Turner,
4, Ziggler and Francony, and Deputy
Marshal Shehau. Communication is
most difficult and by small steam
boats BACON. Brig. Gen.
WALkER, Mimi, Oct 81. q. Beat
on, one of the three newspaper men
marched with Gen. Bacon's troops on
Sugar Point. wires the Minneapolis
Tribune a long account of the battle.
After describing the landing he says:
We were down at the landing waiting
for the row boats to take us to the
steamer when a shot was heard. I'm
mediately we ran back to the rest on
the hill, when a volley came from the
woods to the front of U.S.
| The soldiers were just about to be
dismissed and for moment was at a
loss to understand the significance of
the firing. A second later another
volley came and the bullets whistled
past my head. Run to cover" some
one cried, and as the soldiers grabbed
their guns aud ran to the left, hur-
soon safely housed behind big boulders
and brush.
| STEADY, men, steady" was the first
sound of a voice heard, and as raised
my head ! could see Gen. Bacon run
ming along with his troops
| Another peep above the stone be-
hind which 1 lay and a peep at a
great chance of death, and saw Maj.
Wilkinson and Lieut. Ross calling to
their men to advance. All the time
! the shots were fast and furious, and
, Tie l!lets fe.v a few inches above our
heads 49, ,.a la on the beach.
The mcI ,0ut,pued to - ',cN The
three officers we're e~rvr aay- Ma,
Wilkinson in charge OF frc left tank.
Gen. Bacon in charge Of the crEter
and Lieut.. 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 a volley into the ranks OF
the enemy The officers, however
stood in the open.
| For so minutes there was a ceaseless
roar, and every little while we could
hear cries of the men who had beer
shot looked up once and saw thai
Maj Wilkinson had been injured, but
where did not know. l heard hin
cry: Ross, I've been wounded, but
won't give up, for its not bad"
The next moment as he stood righ'
back of his firing line calling at the
men: "Give it to them, boys; I've go
them going; give it to them; they ART
towards and they're going to run
He seemed to stagger and surge a.
Ross ran toward him
Give them - general, give then
=" he called at the top of his voice
over towards the central flank, wher,
Gen. Bacon was taking aim at a rec
man. Then he fell into the arms o
the doctor, who carried him into tn,
log cabin at the crest of the hill
where he died.
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 hat
come, he was carried to the littl,
cabin, the victim of another bulle
from the Indians Winchesters
The strires on the sleeve OF anothe
man whom l saw throw up his hand
and drop his gun told me that a ser
geant had been hit. AS he fell h,
clapped one of his hands to his heat
and afterward l learned that he wa
Sergt Butler, and that he had beef
killed instantly by a shot through hi
head
As he fell, Lieut. Ross, who ha,
charge of the two TANKS after the in
jury sustained by Maj Wilkinson, wa
seen to drop upon his knees and fire il
the direction in which the shot tina
had killed Butler had come. The.
told me afterward that Ross got hi
man and had fully avenged the dealt
of the gallant sergeant
After that the men were out Of sigh
up in the woods and behind the cabin
and we could only lay on the beacl
and wonder when our end would come
for we did not know but that tho sol
diers had been annihilated Their
was no let up in the firing.
Suddenly, to our right, we heard tn
Soice of Col. Sheehan, of ST. Paul
deputy United States marshal. w
glanced up and could see the veteran
Indian fighter leading an advance b.
a portion of the right flank.
Every time his voice was heard
volley rang out and every time it wa
further away from us Afterward !