Show THE WAR IN ARIZONA particulars about the attack on barrs command Oom mand tho the mormon settlers Sett lors badly bailly har crusea dy dr NY y U V TO ezrach to the ui I herald lerald 11 SAN SAX sept A tucson dispatch bays A citizen lias has received tho following from caknip thomas sept ath lieutenant stanton of the ath cavalry with thirty three men as an escort readied reached hero bero from camp apache last about with a dispatch as follows FORT font ArA APACHE city kept sopt I gen carr col of the eth cavalry left liero here on oil august with troops dand eath cavalry and a company of or indian scouts 10 men andrix and six officers intending to arrest tile apache medicine man who had been endeavoring to get tho tile indians to break out lie reached cibick creek forty five miles west of here at p ni on the when they found ai COO indians camped there and Rr arrested rested the medicine man without resistance tho the command then went a few miles from the main indian village and camped and a pack train waa was unloaded when the indians began arriving from all points but keeping alona along the range of the bluffs somo sonic three hundred yards off some ote of the indian scouts having at this time left the irown own camp and cabrio D into camp captain bentig ordered them to leave while doing so an indian turned dand and fired killing capt bentig instantly tho the fight then became general the troops formed a skirmish lino line driving the indians back some distance df sinco the herders gerders were killed by tho the first volley and the herd stampeded the fight began at lasting nearly three hours until darkness when the indians drew off toward their own camp it is impossible to tell how many manthos hos tiles were killed A council wa and it was decided that it was impossible to hold the position against such a largo large force there was but one way out of tile camp through a bad canyon the berd was rounded up and it was found that D troop had lost eighty three horses troop ei ciglio 11 the pack tr train ain seven mules and several V were badly biot they bastil hastily gathered up their dead and found foun seven men and one officer capt hentig hent t P killed they buried them inside the lie tent of carr which with everything but saddles and ammunition was left on the field as is a blind to covert lic retreat three badly wounded soldiers were placed on horses AM at 11 t the command started in retreat for this post one of the wounded men died lied at the next in morning or tho the in bans did not follow evidently thinking them still at bibi cu ell general carr made a forced march inal ell not stopping anywhere until he lie reached the post at p in on T alio lie the troops were b badly adly used up avith hunger aad and fatigue the hos bos tiles are swarming through the country and came within a mile of this post ost this morning burning several buildings tuil buildings dings stampeding a large berd of cattle and then drawing off to the mountains the couriers who started out were killed within 20 00 miles from front here also several more out on escort duty besides four citizens this is reported by a friendly indian spy the mormon settlers north of o us must bo be suffering heavily liea vily wo can do nothing but hold the post until reinforcements reach us the indiana indians cut the telegraph line every few miles LATER at the indians began firing into the party at the graveyard burying tho the dead lead drove them into the post and won ali en fired rel into the post st from the bluffs on every side the troops formed a ski skirmish deverr line around tho the entire camp k keeping e e 1116 them out of the post the fight t aay lasted e d until dark when the indians drew off capt gordon the successor to capt cart bentig Ilon tig was wounded in the I leg there r were no other casual tise the birin firing during the first hour was very c heavy from the ho hostiles stiles wo we believe wo can keep them out of tile post t but no more posa LATER APAc nr sept p in m nobles a and Colvillo were ivero driven back last night while trying to get through to thomas St antons company is to try it tonight to night everything is is quiet awaiting four companies PA nies of the oth cavalry are en conle th three r of them mast have reached there by this time sri SEPT r 10 a m wo we baill hold tho the fort tho tile fight yesterday was very warm for about two hours behave wo have sent messages by courier couri erby by corporal wagons on the night of the and private welsh at am on the also by owens mail carrier at noon on the thirty first welsh is the only ono who has reached Tji thomas oniAs he lie blurted started on his return on tho the morning of sept and has not been heard from binco hince tile following ia is a list of the k killed capt Ilen tig eth cavalry privates Taun daunda dagger r sullivan Bul livan miller livingston bard bar ai r and faran Farano of fCo co D ath cavalry can alry the wounded are r beut C G gordon of the ath cavalry V I in th alio llio c leg but not serious sergeant ant T mcdonald co E oth cavalry right leg badly |