Show crooks command in the black hills DEADWOOD CT CITY i B black binck 1 acl aci hills dills sedil befit t 1876 general crooks troops have been encamped near the foothills of these mountains and have been supplied by the black hills merchants with food the scenes which occurred when the soldiers crowded around the wagons which were laden with bread and belied seized and devoured it before it could bei be distributed beggars description they had for two days subsisted on nothing but horses yesterday a soldier of the fifth cavalry while hunting was killed by the sioux the destruction of the village near hear the blim slim butt nutt buttes es aa copl copi hiete twelve squaws nive five ve and th three bucks inc including udilia a mere boy were captured ca luied iran shield or american nurse horse urse orse died of f a wound in i the phe au domen beven seven beven indians w were ere killed hilled by the rear guard consisting ofa of a portion of the fifth cavalry on an the morning when the army marched away from the tho field of battle the niini number berof of blo sioux ux killed on the oth and loth and the whole loss of the thu enemy including the wounded 1 and agid captured is estimate i ed at 1 the golowin fo following lowin 9 is a correct ca of or the gen crooks command i fl didieo john white alias bite a scout shot ahot through itlie bearb at the siege of the ravine private A 1 alias allas ven wenzel ea campany A third cavalry shot through the headband hea head dand and dying within an hour after the attack private edward kennedy company panya 0 fifth cavalry shot through the legs died died didd of the anhock by mir his terrible aou you wounds n ds WOUNDED 44 lieutenant A H von Lent lont witz company E third cavalry his nis left knee was shattered ard and the le amputated rim jim kia uin win rl bli III s sergeant john A kirkwood company INI third cavalry Sergeant Edward glass G kompany kompany E third Ch cavalry airy alny alry sergeant e bant E edward dw ard Schreiber Com ltv I 1 pany pan K fifth cavalry private J 11 stevenson I 1 som rom pom company any I 1 second cavalry Cava liy private august doral dorai dorn company D third cavalry private edward mckernan company E third cavalry private charles foster cavalry i private wilb dabola dabols C third cavalry private privates Priva tel tei daniel vord ford C company m pan F fifth cavalry private george A D fifth cavalry private michael ff donnelly company cava cavalry private wil wll william I 1 lam iam iia ila madden dd com corn pany ISI fifth cavalry private robert fitzhenry com pany JEI abi ninth infantry with the exception of anant tenant von none nono of or the wound are dangerous 11 ln 41 il r e mauch MARCH OF THE TROOPS the troops move by easy eagy marches towards fort laramie general crook is ordered to hasten thither in advance with an escort in order to consult with alth ith gen sheridan sherida Sherl sheri dan dal ho he arrived here herd this afternoon aate ri loori and was wha received with cheers and explosions of gunpowder the population welcomed them as their deliverers A pet petition tilon was presented him bearing more than names parnes asking king his protection from the in indians who infest innest the mouin motin bains who have killed during dining the past two months more than white men vaen new york herald JI erald sept 21 |