INDIAN OUTRAGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

Western Star, Issue 281, 25 January 1879, Page 7

INDIAN OUTRAGES IN THE UNITED STATES.

Eeports in the New York Herald give pictures of the ravages committed by the Cheyenne Indians. One correspondent says : —The half has not been told of the atrocities committed by the Cheyennes ontheir route from their reservation across Kansas, leaving as they did behind them trails of rapine and blood. I have been over the whole field north of the KansasPacific road, from Buffalo station to the headwaters of Beaver creek, and the facts there obtained are simply frightful. The Indians crossed the Kansas-Pacific road and proceeding north sacked the postoffice on the north fork of the Solomon, but John Bailess the postmaster escaped. They then went in a north-easterly direction, and killed every person and sacked everything in their way. Near Beaver creek they attacked a ranch owned by Thomas Lynch, who fled to a dugout* with his wife and two children. The Indians came whooping up, but Lynch killed two with a revolver and the rest fled; On Sappa creek occurred an outrage the recital of which makes the blood cold. The howling demons came suddenly upon the house of H. Lang, and, after killing the father and two sous, outraged the mother and two daughters, and then saturating the house with kerosene, set it on five. The two little daughters were only 11 aud 13 years of age, aud are now in a state o.f semi-madness, all of them escaping from the burning building after the red devils

left. Just north of Lang’s place Kate Abernethy, a school teacher, was also ravished and murdered. Seventeen dead bodies were gathered up by the settlers and buried at Bowden, eight of whom were known, and nine unknown and unrecognised ones. Until after the Indians passed Beaver Creek they killed men, women, children, and stock with guns, but after leaving that stream they used axes to kill the people, in nearly every instance crushing the face and skull and mutilating the bodies in the most barharous manner. This was because they were getting short of ammunition and had to save every ounce of powder and ball. The situation is simply frightful; but the Indians have now left the State, and people will return to their homesteads. During all this time the troops were only a few hours in the rear and stockmen and settlers are very bitter in tbeir denunciation of the way they were handled. On one occasion about two hundred soldiers with the Indians but neglected to engage them, giving excuse that the soldiers were tired out and needed rest. G-eneral Jeff C. Davi a [had his headquarters at Wallace, but did not take the field in person, and General Pope the department commander, seemed to have little knowledge of the sta f e of affairs, as he telegraphed on the day the men were killed south of Buffalo, that “ there was not an Indian in Kansas.”