The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-10-07

conflict have come from Bear Island ell
day but people here are still in ignur-
ance of the real situation on the battle
ground. where General Bacon and his
men had their desperate encounter with
the Pillager Indians yesterday after
noon.
Up to an early hour This mOFninS
there were many grounds for fearinl
General Bacon and his command haS
been annlhilated. NO direct word hal
been received from any man VINO par
tIcipated in the arst bptue,
Early this morning, however. the FIR
.ng was resumed and IT has continued
practically all day. This makes it Ger.
tain General BacOn's command Is sim
on earth and IN aghtIns trim. 1t Is now
believed the soldiers are entrenched and
In position to hold out until reinforce
ments reach them.
Lieutenant Colonel HaEpach, with 215
Of the Third infantry reached here late
this afternoon and Immediately started
for Bear Island. It is thirty mlles dis
;ant and progress viii necessarily be
slow.
No courier has reached here from
Bear Island during the day 90 it IS Inn
possible TO learn the result ot'tO-day's
fight.
A posse of citizens succeeded in land
ing on Bear Island. secured the bodies of
four Of the men killed in Wednesdays
asht and brought away nine wounded
soldiers The citizens we're driven to
their boats by Indians aFIng from the
bush but no fatalities are reported.
An eGort was made last night 20 Sc
cure Intelligence from Bear IslaHd, but
/, failed. Tue dispatch boat Flora sail
ed close TO shore and slgnalled for an
hour but no answering signal was re-
turned. To land was an imposalbili,y.
The condition of Baeon's men, even Il
they are safe from annlhllatIon, must be
deplorable. Fhey are illy supplied with
overcOats and blankets, Tents they
have none, Their food supplies were
short when rhsy landed and they were
in no shape to stand a long siege
ST. PAUL, MINI, Oct. ga Walker,
Siinn. dispatch to the Dispatch says:
a boat from the scene of me action
has just arrived. Fighting IS stlll In
progress. Major Wilkinson, one SER
geant and three prlvates we're killed and
eight wounded. Ray-Bay-Gway-TIsh
chif of Indian police. was killed. It was
impossible to bring the wounded to town
for the Indians kept up constant firs
on the boat. A special train with 200
additional soldiers will arrive here AZ 9
p. M, when they Will be transferred to
the scene of action as soon as possible.
Not more than four Indians have been
killed and only two wpundet. Captain
sheeban, head deputy United States
marsbal, arrived on the boat With q
flesh wound in the abdomen and one in
the right arm. He says the ''Pilagers"
do not number more than 100. but they
fight aS only demonical Savages can.
Unless oyerpoWered by superior num-
bers not one Of them will quit fighting
while he has any breath In hiV carcass
They are holding out with the hope
that the cass Lake Indians will soon ar
rive to their assistance. II they should
arrive before our troops are reinforced,
the sOldlers will have q desperats time
Of Il, After the rsintorcsments BET here
It win take TWO hours TO embark them
and two hours more for them to get to
Sugar Point, therefore the best that can
be expected is that they win mot be able
to render much assistance. except as to
the force of numbers, until daylight
Friday. The newspaper correspondents
are all right.
RaeOR'S Troops not Wiped out.
A special to the Journal from Walker.
Alnn., says; / have Just met en- Indian
named Nah Ge Cub 30, who came over
from Bear Island in n canoe at a. m.
He says ,he ioss OF the whites is ten
killed and fifteen wounded, He denies
that the troops have been wiped out,
but says the Indians have had the best
OF IT, Their loss. he claims, docs not ex-
ceed hye killed and wounded. The
force with Bacon are probably safe and
more ENCOURAGEMENT Is felt about Il. i
have other Information that thors are
hity dead Indians within a milo OF the
landing.
Firing WINS resumed over on Tho main.
land at 0 o'clock, From the reports OF
the krhg-JorBeHsena 1 think the troops
nrc far inland, II thia 10 the case they
arc inirenched and can hold their own
unless ammunition Is exhausted. In thar
event there Gan ba but ono result Every