The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-07
Gen. Bacon and His Men Hold
Their Position, But Anxiously
Await Reenforcements.
Two Hundred Additional Men Are Sent
More Troops Ordered to Scene
OF Trouble.
Expected That the Hottest Battle i.
Yet to Come-Indians Are In
Desperate Mood.

ne bad just received dispatch from
Agent Tinker in which he states
boat has just arrived from the scene
OF battle and reports that Maj. WilIin-
son, one sergeant and four privates
were killed; also that deputy marshal
was wounded and an Indian policeman
killed; that the 200 troops on the way
ito the battlefield are not enough. The
r department has ordered additional
r3ops to start Immediately.
Savages Fight Desperately.
st. Paul, Mimi, Oct. GA Walker
(Minn.) special to the Dispatch says:
A boat from the scene of action has
just arrived. Fighting is still progress
ing. Maj. Wilkinson, one sergeant and
three privates were killed and eight
wounded. Kay-Bay -Gwan-Tish, chief
Of Indian police, was killed. 1t was i'm
possible to bring the wounded to town,
for the Indians kept up constant
fire on the boat. A special train with
200 additional troops will arrive here
at two p. M, when they will be trans
ferred to the scene of action as soon
as possible. Not more than four In.
dians have been killed and only two
wounded. Capt. Sheehan, head dep
uty United States marshal, arrived on
the boat with flesh wound in the
abdomen and one in the right arm.
He says the Pillagers do not number
more than 100, but they fight as only
demoniacal savages can. Unless over
powered by superior numbers, not one
of them will quit fighting while he has
any breath in his carcass. They are
holding out now with the hope that
the Cass lake Indians will soon arrive
to their assistance. If they should
arrive before our troops are reen-
forced, the soldiers will have des-
perate time of it. After the reinforce
ments get here 1t will take two hours
to embark them and two hours more
for them to get to Sugar Point; there
fore the best that can be expected
is that they will not be able to rem
der much assistance, except as TO
the force of numbers, until daylight
Friday. The newspaper correspond
ents are all right.
Another Account of n Battle.
Minneapolis, Mimi, Oct. GA special
to the Journal from Walker. Mimi,
gays: Maj. Wilkinson, six privates and
one Indian policeman are dead. Col.
Sheehan is slightly wounded. Thirty
Indians are dead. The Journals dis
patch boat has just returned from the
battle-ground. There has been desper-
ate fighting all the morning.
The Journals boat brought out II.
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Sheehan. Sheehan is not badly wound
ed. He is shot in the abdomen.
Fired ON from Ambush.
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 as fierce fight
in progress as that of Wednesday,
Beaulieu narrowly escaped with his
life. He had his shoulder bored clear
through. We handled provisions and
medicines The firing became so hot
we were compelled to weigh anchor
and steam out into the lake.
Gen. Bacon's Force Too Small.
The Indians appear to be inlforce.
Bacon's command is too small to take
Nthe aggressive. The detachment is en-
trcnched in good position and can
hold out so long as ammunition lasts.
The steamer Chief was met by my boat
eight miles out and has arrived ere
this. She carries a posse of armed
men. Maj. Wilkinson was shot and
allied while walking up and down adj
monishing the men to keep their heads
low.
biggest Battle to Come.
No brayer man or better officer ever
lived. The men in his command are
crazed with rage. When reinforce
ments arrive they will wreak ven
geance on the Pillagers in their own
way. The fight is not half oyer yet,
the biggest battle remains atog be
fought. ..sSg