Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-01-12

This Report Says that Seminole" Have
Been Oriiorcd to "a General Uprising.

Been Oricrcd 10 "A ecncriu 'p'iSh"E'
Kansas City, Mo. Jan. f1.-Genera
alarm exists throughout the southwest
tonight on account OF the persistent
rumors of Seminole Indian outbreak
which have poured in from various
parts of the country since niEhtfall.
The stories vary from threatening VIII
dances to massaores In which score
or more of settlers are snid to have lost
their lives. and IL is not probable that
the real state of affairs win be know
before tomorrow. Since the burning OF
the two Indian murderers near Maud.
okla, last Friday, the .Seminoles have
been greatly excited, and trouble has
ben feared for several days
A special from Shawnee, Okla. says:
The westbound train on the ChoctaW
branch of the Frisco rnilroad today
brought to this city every woman and
child from Earlboro, town of 200 PEG
pie near the border of the Seminole
nation. The burning ut the stake o.
McGelsey and simpson the Seminol
alf-hreeds, for the murder OF Mrs
I,eard and the violence of the mob |
an attempt to secure Others implicated
has so enraged the Seminoies that they
have banded together and are ridinf
over the country between Maud and
Wewoka In a wild rage, killing the
stock.
This morning between 9 and 3 O'CLOCK
party of about twenty savages, half
breeds and thugs. rode into a neigh
borhood eighteen miles southeast Of
Earlboro and began shooting through
the doors and windows of the house Of
man who had recently come from
Ohio. Every person in the house is
reported to have been killed.
The people who have come in on the
train from Earlboro say that about 10
o'clock a regular pitched battle occurred
and that three families were killed.
| There is a general uprisin <. Messen-
| gers have been sent to the military
| station demand ing immediate aid and
| protection. The people at Maud have
| arranged wagons to take the women
and children out of the country under
guard of armed horsemen.
When the reports reached Earlboro
| the women and children were put or
| the train and sent into Oklahoma. ~
| great many stopped as soon as they got
well across the territory line. but most
| of them came as far as Ell Reno
| They were so frightened that many OF
| them got off the train along the way
leaving what little baggage they had
| managed to pick up in their hurry
Some of them were crying, Others
| pleaded for men to go TO the rescue
| Most of them were absolutely frantic
No names of the killed could be
/ learned. and no particulars except as
gathered from the frightened people
1 who were running away. The train of
ficials say there is serious trouble anC
some whites have been killed, but tina
the stories of the people who are leav'
ing are probably exaggerated.
BY way OF FL Reno. Okla, additiona
particulars have been received of th'
first outbreak, The refugees from th'
disturbed region reported in earlier dis
patches from Shawnee reached tina
plance in "A pnnic-stricken condition am
could give no coherent story of the up
rising. but II is gathered that the frs
attack camesin Indian fashion in TIL
night, when the houses of four or nv
families were surrounded and fired int
until all the occupants We're killed
after which the dwellings, We're fire.
and left to burn to the ground with al
the dead inside. It does not as yet ap
penr that the Indians used the scalp
ing-knife upon their victims.