| Show more indian difficulties on the oear cear trai route by the mail carrier who arrived arrive dhere here on ort sunday morning we are informed that as mr william rogers was waa coming in from the west with an scort escort e ot 0 several soldiers he camped in spring 0 valley vailey over night sight and was attacked hy ity indians who fired on them without however doing a y damage except wounding one of the soldiers horses with an arrow we have also been favored by major egan with the perusal of several communication communicational a received by the ibe express yesterday morning from persons at deep creek arid and other points on the C and S emall LI mall mail line from which we learn that on the lith dinst st about two hundred indians came to the station at egan igan kanyon and deni demanded some seme powder and lead of uie me men in charge of the station chic which rh ic they refused to let wa them em have bave as a matter of course they alen wanted wante d tio tto llO provisions provi vIsions siona and the men gave them two sacks of and some sugar 0 arid and coffee one of the men abea the started out after the animals kept at that place when the indians told them that he be could not go and that they would take care of the animals themselves and commenced sing singing D and hallooing hallowing hallo hailo at a great rate at that instant weed with soldiers came up and attacked the indians who returned the fire wounding three men including corporal mitchell who it wa wab was thought thong it would recover but the other two wera seriously injured and their recovery was considered doubtful the indians fled without driving off aly any of the stock about the same time six or eight indiana went nowhere to where some men were mowing near deep creek creel and ordered them away but went off without molesting them further they The ycama cama came back next morning when four soldiers who had secreted themselves in a wagon fired on them wounding two mortally as supposed the others fad at about six on the morning of the the next day after the attack at egana kanyon the indians indiana made mads an attack on shell creek station the first intimation that the men had of the proximity of indians was a shower of balls flying about them but fortunately na no one was killed or wounded they instantly took shelter in the house there were two tso parties of indian In diang one of ol which surrounded the up a as s near abar as they cou could Id without being 1 se enand kept up an in i for about an art hour without wounding any of the men but they had the mortification of seeing their stock drove off without the means of preventing prevention 0 it there was one mule in the corral at which they ther fired somo soma fifteen shots only one ball taking effect fortunately in about an hour after the attack was commenced weed arrived with his command from ruby and attacked the indians ladiana Ind lad ians lans killin killing seventeen of them as reported and wounding others and thus relieved the men from the perilous position in which they were placed the same day da y there were four other indians indiana reported to have heen hem killed lulled in shell creek kanyon by three soldiers who came in from round bound valley with the western express eara earu ess |
