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LINDIAN PRISONERS ESCAPE.rawithIt.Sixteen Soldiers Wounded, Two• I ■ suAnFatally.#» ugerniirs.Five Indiana Killed.Dr.lhTiNew# up from Cheyenne Agency but ThursGoveday brought reliable intelligence of the evrapecUn£7.of the Cheyenne prisoner**, three hundred InUp stnumber, arrealed and held at hostages for theIlls csue *murder of a part of the Germain family, andTbtourthe torture and outrages perpetrated upon theweekGermain girl-, referred for a worse fate thanb ringtuuthe tomahawk. Our information comes fromCanlcan eye-witness or the affair, and does not differ from Gen. Nell's report, except In the-----■amp!fromurtnumber of Indians killed, which Gen. Neilputs at three Instead of Are, probably owingMr.butto a mistake on the part of the operator, whoof themistook a figure live for a figure throe. Thestate.outbreak occurred at 2 o'clock p. m. Tuesday.the hiolngthe flih. and upon the very afternoon the thirof aty lodian prisoners In irons, cn route fromfacturnewhill to Wichita, were due at the ageuey. Thec haulprevious day the Indian prisoners had all beencalitysearched for arms and nothing was found exleetMnotcept a few old guns, these wen taken by thefamll;guard, it being a precautionary measureThe. onagainst trouble during the next day's irouingprocess. The object failed, a* the very nexttv bena t ^afternoon, upon the outbreak, nearly eve rycal isI isIndian had side arms and plenty of ammuniat prUb-tion ; the fir*t Indian it was attempted to pulway.irons upon, demonstrated Ibis fact an 1 broughtoveral-into requisition upon the soldier*, a me-eehotritt!«*handful, opposing three hundred blood-thirssafetyty ravages, overwhelming in uuxubcr*, wellof cat_ . aiv anarmed for the attack. A young Cheyennemod.*.warrior, noted for In* d.»«!i ami iniaehtef-cruat-and ittoIng proclivities was selected out from the rest.route *S. 1the Irons got ready, and while the party devmdtailed for thin work were approaching to perr.tilw;theform llicir duty, the young Indian broke andto f. 1ran from the stockade, and was immediatelyfoundlltilef-tired upou and killed by the guard. This w.vIf.lUbtbo signal for a general fight, the savage* massTbted upon the few soldier*, but were held Inmax ocheck unlit company M. sixth cavaldry was*the »tmtbrought upon the scene, when the ludi-time 1
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The Wichita City Eagle
Wichita, Kansas, US
Thu, Apr 15, 1875
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