Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1898-10-06
REPORTS ARE CONFLICTING.
ss So sid as FIT Rumoced But SUI Bad
though.
Ten MEN KILLED AND THIRTY INDIANS.
N,,b,ne D.nnits uas Desn "eari fro"
Genefst iiaeon Sswspspef We"
are Reported Kllisd.


Minneapolis. MINI. oct. G-Tha
Times this morulur prints the follow
Ink summary Of tn situation 81 tsecch
Lake a. near az u can BE- learned
At $50 this morning the only dcn-
mite news from Lecch Lake. ls thlt
100 of the Third Infantry, under Gen.
Bacon had am engagement with the
PiilagcrH on the mainland with cas-
ualiloa of four killed and nine wound
ed
The troops landed at 2 q. m. ysyier-
day md secuted through the woods
without result. Soon after II a. M.
while II, mon wcra getting oonoe. the
Indians opened nrc with the result
above rt1ed
Tho truipn stcadled by General IA.
con ana Major wilkinson. rushed Tor.
ward 90 cover and returned the Indian
nrc with good eject the loss 90 tho
rcd min not being kuusn dCnnlicly
because 81 the nature Of the ground
ana the thick brush.
This was nii the definite news ~.
cclvcd up 90 fae hour given above.
Eary IN the evening rumora BEGAN
70 come IN ff1m Dralncrd ane Duluth
"a the eject that Custer Ike dis
aalsr bad been added 20 our long lls,
q nghis ~i.h Indians.
Mf. pcgiur n the Minneapolis Jour.
nal telcGiuphtd that neaton of the
Minneapolis Tribune was In critical
position.
Following this came statement
frsm The operator At walker that uea-
ton and nrlli the latter the Pioneer
pr,yu correspondent. landed from a
boat before the troops were engaged
and had been killed.
a later story was 10 the eject tina,
tNo correspondents had been cut IN
by the Indians while trying o. escape
and KILLED. knappen " The Times was
not mentioned but was supposed 20 be-
with lioat1n and liflll.
stu latter came report from
iiralneri that Bacon and his entire
Command and two correspondents had
BEEN Killed.
Denver. colo. oct o.-Af,hur Peg
ler thr nan correspondent ~ The Min.
u'apsa journal, wire nt $50 this
incoming ffufn Walker MINI. Force OF
eighty mon under utu. Bacon have hean
ann|hIIalad / do not What hsr inHprct1r
Tinker haa m1ro information Than 1
have but he saut word 20 the war DE-.
parimrni last nlahi that tho Third in.
ihniy detachment had been wiped out.
! g. in ycfy lue from the expedition
/ cluy nrpilsr ana raii5ns ts ~ tT, ' "
4 u wee V.y dark on shore. We siruairi
i1f an hour Corporal kctllokoyCn u8,d
4 ~, 3 use a. sineago. Either troops
nave been O. q lnl1nl or iho,c D. nj
man VI % y irft No answering OF
. any 81 wa received. although a. lt,
o. ml un m whole length hotdlnnd.
~ ~ land was an impusslblllfy hi IN.
ailh az me rolnf0fcemeuts frnm
hfalnul have not arrived and there
II nai ony one Ola Winchester rlae on
{. TIE boat '''' y"
II Hsdiy Litafd. eaptaln Of ths rio,,
j. dtai same man and he woniI
have hrdet There h no posslbls
. dQlbi that the small force on m. hoat
n you'd have been annlhllaied il this
aboiri Who prsferred 10 T ale n " sn
tn1ft al rescue howeyer futiis 4, n,t,h,
have hsen. . -
w. had our blankets and r,tlon- apr
M hlutchata! II any ~ the,n .,,r,,i,,'
lhey silent Last rfrht In m omen
htayy ff0at prcvaiisd there fhsr, Il
20, 90 much a. a coffes bean a. dl,dds
b.iNe.n he Nh0ie command this
morning Al n ists, al. ~, ..,i,,,.
90 igll he Ahoie ruth al,,ut this ~
paifiln 1 never Knew m s,,rb -.
Encouragement or v,itne.,.d .,ch
criminal obstlnaey a. hs. h..n ~
h'h.iel here.
Ihe men ~ Hacon'a command ,xer,
taken out Under Conditions maj wouid
Disgrace mliiia sers,s,na 49,. H.
reFpons'n. f5r them tvery ~, a.,
has been ftsf nor ~ :, $780,, 80.
v hr1t. my hssrt "a 80 M, ,,',.'. III
lows IN nnins ma 49,, 49,,
been ssnt mere In ne nr.t itsc' hi
shot unfid h.x,. -, ''"'e wv
We have b,s.,, -, u "tNn -. -
enifrnebsi bim-.ie 80 Nv, ~ "'13 n I'm
We 10 an.w.r .l,',et. 49,. W. ~ ~.