The herald., 1898-01-12
INDIANS
TAKE THE
WARPATH
Seeking Vengeance on the
LynChers
EARLB0R0 PEOPLE WARNED
FIND SAFETY IN FRECIPITATE
FLIGHT
The Reports Are Meager and Contra
dictory, But Reign Of Terror
Prevails in Oklahoma
Associated Press Special Wire

| Associated Press Special Wire
SOUTH M'ALESTER, I. T., Jan. IL
A telegram received here at GAO o'clock
this evening by the train dispatcher of
the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf rail-
road states that a band of $50 Seminole
Indians are on the warpath and are
leaving behind them a trail of blood.
The telegram was sent by the railroad
station agent at Earlboro. The brief
information conveyed was that the Sem
inoles were avenging the work Of the
mob of white men who burned two Sem
mole Indians at the stake on Friday
last. and that the infuriated Seminoles
had already massacred twenty-five men,
women and children.
The station agent gave the additional
information that the band started from
a point six miles south of Earlboro with
the avowed intention of setting fire to
Tecumseh and killing all whom they
met, but the Indians were reported to
have changed their minds and were at
the time Of sending the message head
ing toward EarlDOrO.
The receipt of this startling informa-
tion has created intense excitement in
South McAlester. Federal Judges
Springer, Thomas and Townsend, who
are In the city, are anxiously awaiting
further news. Scores of people here who
have relatives and friends at Earlboro
are besieging the telegraph office for
news, but the agent has either left Earl
boro station to gather further informa-
tion or perhaps has been slain or driven
to seek shelter.
If the Earlboro agent cannot be reach
ed soon by wire, a train will be dis
patched from here midnight bound FOR
the scene of the reported massacre. un-
der orders from Judge Springer and
having on board all the availa BILE deputy
marshals under command of Capt.
Grady, while the secretary Of war will be
wired to order troops from Fort Reno.
The general offices of the Choctaw.
Oklahoma and Gulf road have ordered a
special train from Shawnee bearing vol
unteers armed with Winchesters to in
tercept the Indians at Earlboro and pre-
vent further bloodshed..
THE CITIZENS SAFE
WICHITA, Kas., Jan. ia special
to the Eagle from Shawnee, o. T., says
the train from the east tonight brought
to this city car containing every wom
an and child of Earlboro. The passen-
gers confirm previous reports and say a
pitched battle between the Indians and
settlers took place this afternoon near
Maud postoffice, resulting in the wiping
out of several families.
A later dispatch from Shawnee says:
A message calling for men and arms has
just been received from EaIIlboro, u
town of about 100 inhabitants, nine miles
east of here, saying that nearly 300 In
dians have declared vengeance on the
town and are moving towards the place,
declaring that they will burn it.
Grave fears are entertained for the
settlers on the border. A special train
was made up from here and $50 armed
men left for the scene. The trouble was
caused by farmers burning two Indians
who ravished and murdered Mrs. Leard
last week. The whole country is aroused.
By way Of Ell Reno, l. T., additional
particulars have been received of the
first outbreak. The refugees from the
disturbed region reported in earlier dis
a panic c-stricken condition and were un-
able to give names or any coherent story
of the uprising, but it is gathered that
the first attack came, Indian fashion, in
the night when the houses of the four or
five families were stealthily surrounded
and fired into until their occupants were
killed, after which the dwellings were
fired and left to burn to the ground with
all the dead inside. 1t does not, as yet,
appear that the Indians used the scalp
ing knife upon their victims. The fugi-
tives We're in truly pitiable condition.
half frantic or half dazed, so much so
that it has so far been impossible to get
a connected narrative of the bloody
tragedy from which they have fled.
A REIGN OF TERROR
GUTHRIE, Ok, Jan. 11.-Deputy mar
shals arriving here from Maud report a
reign of terror in that section of the
territory following the recent lynching
of two Seminole Indians, which has
provoked the Seminoles to threaten ven
geance. A dozen families are reported
to have left their farms in the vicinity
of Maud. One deputy brings a report
that two men were captured by Sem
mole bucks yesterday and put to the
thumb torture.
United States Marshal Thompson re-
ceived instructions today to send force
of deputies to the line marking the bor-
der Of Oklahoma and the Indian terri
tory to cooperate with the Indian ter
ritory officials in quelling the threat
ened outbreak.
A WILD SCARE.
DALLAS, Tex, Jan. ,11.-A special to
the News from Oklahoma City, Ok.
says: There is an uprising in the Sem
mole nation and 100 armed Indians have
killed twenty-five citizens of Pottawat-
tonne county. this territory The Indians
are seeking to avenge the recent burn
ing Of Lincoln McKeeisey and Palmer