The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1898-10-12
WHIPPEp TIE REDS.
Gen. Bacon Returns to Civilization After
Chastising the Bear Island Indians.


Walker, Mimi, Oct. 7.--Sounds Of
conflict came from Bear island all of
Thursday, but people here are still
in ignorance of the real situation on
the battle ground where Gen. Bacon
and his men had their desperate en-
counter with the Pillager Indians
Wednesday noon.
Up to an early hour yesterday there
were many grounds for fearing Gen.
Bacon and his command had been an
initiated. No direct word had been
received from any man who partici-
pated in the first battle. Early in the
morning, however, the firing was re-
sumed and it has continued practically
all day.
Lieut.. Col. Harbach, with three
companies of the Third infantry,
reached here in the afternoon and
started for Bear island.
Maj Wilkinson, six privates and
one Indian policeman are dead.
Thirty Indians are dead. The Jour
nal dispatch boat returned from the
battle ground and brought out H. S.
Talman, deputy marshal, and Col.
Sheehan. He is shot in the abdomen.
While the boat was transferring
wounded men she was fired on from
the brush. This was the signal for
an immediate reopening of hostilities.
The troops opened on the Indians and
in second there was fierce fight
in progress.
The firing became so hot we were
compelled to weigh anchor and steam
out into the lake. The Indians APP
pear to be in force. Bacon's COM
mand is too small to take the aggres-
sive. The detachment is entrenched
in good position and can hold out
so long as ammunition lasts. Maj.
Wilkinson was shot and killed while
walking up and down admonishing
the men to keep their heads low.
No braver or better officer ever lived.
The men in his command are crazed
with rage.
Capt. Sheehan says the Pillagers do
not number more than 100, but they
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Walker, Mimi, Oct. Seen. Bacon
and all his men arrived here Friday,
having no difficulty about landing of
boats. lie reports that at several
points along the lake white flags were
seen, Indicating general surrender.
There is something of panic in
most of the small settlements near
Walker, that being the center of the
Leech Lake district, and the men in
the lumber camps in that vicinity have
quit work and are either in or on their
way to Walker.
Gen. Bacon thinks one of the Indi-
ans killed by sharpshooter was Chief
Bug All Nah Ge. Shig, who was the
cause of the whole trouble, other
Indians having taken him by force
from the deputy marshals who were
taking him to Duluth as a witness in
an alleged liquor selling case.
Washington, Oct. s.-Reports re-
ceived by the officials of the war and
the interior departments from the
Indian outbreak are of a reassuring
character and they now feel that the
uprising may be regarded as over.
Gen. Bacon, who has charge of affairs
in the department of which he is in
command, will remain at Walker for
the present and thiS, it is hoped, will
have quieting effect on the citizens
of the surrounding country who have
felt tnat they were in danger from the
redskins. Steps will be taken to nave
an investigation made with a view t
fixing the responsibility among the
Indians for their stand against the
government. The following from Gen.
Bacon was received yesterday:
zone soldier killed to-day and one
Indian policeman killed and one
wounded. Number of Indians impos-
sible to estimate. They have now
scattered in their canoes to the vari-
Gus islands of this section. Have ac-
complished all that can be done here
at this late season."