The New York Herald Newspaper, July 14, 1874, Page 3

. 4 ks * NEW YORK HERALD, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1874.—TRIPLE SHEET. ANOTHER BROKEN DAM A Reservoir Covering a Hundred Acres Gives Way, A MIDDLEFIELD VALLEY FLOODED. The Water Sweeping Over Farms and Gardens and Destroying Houses, BRIDGES AND ROADS ANNIHILATED. The Boston and Albany Road Damaged for a Distance of Twenty Miles, Cnesrer, Mass., July 18, 1874. Searcely bas the community recovered from the horrors ol the terrible Mill River calamity before another deluge of like character has swept through eur neighboring valley. Now, as in the case of the Williamsburg disaster, an inse- cure reservoir was the cause, but fortunately in ‘Whie instance there is no such lamentable loss ‘of life as was occasioned by the flood on the other wide of the mountains a few weeks ago. This, however, is owing to the fact that the territory ever which the torrent swept was less populated, and not to any lack of destructive force in the waters, The pond was known 4s the Blush -Hol- | Jow Reservoir, and was owned by samuel | A. Church & Brothers, extensive woollen manufacturers, It broke away between four and five o’clock on Sunday afternoon, and has Caused a loss by destruction and damage to prop- erty and interruption of various kinds of business | to an amount which will consideraply exceed $1,000,000. The foaming food, with the volume } |nd speed of a waterspout, rushed down a narrow, trough-like valley eight miles into the town of | Chester. The long, narrow valley, with the reser- voir at its head, Jike the charge in tie bottom of a gun waiting to be exploded, made a situation precisely like that of the Mill River Valley, THE RESERVOIR was situated on Middlefield Brook, which empties Into the west branch of Westfield River at Middle- field svtitch. It covered nearly one hundred acres, and was built about thirty years ago by Uriah | Church, the father of the present owners, who started the business now carried on by his four sons, The reservoir was made by raising the | main travelled road from Middlefield Centre to | North Becket, the hiils on either side of the stream Jorming the sides of the reservoir. The road dam was raised about twenty feet for a distance of | from thirty to forty rods. The dam gave way once before it was finished, but since its completion | it has been regarded as safe, and for tne, pur- pose of furnishing additional water for. a large Rew mill now being erected, i, was the intention to raise the dam two feet the present season. The Teservoir was used for the storage of water for the vhurch Brothers, running two broadcloth mills, for William Blush’s felloe, thill and stave fac- tory and for a mill owned by Oliver Blush and form- erly used as 2 Wooilen mil! and lately asa grist mill. ‘These were, al! tue imilis situated on the Middle- fleld branch, below the reservoir. Between Mid- diefield switch and Chester there 1s upon the west wranch of the Westfield River, into which the Mtadlefield stream enters, West's woollen mill, | formerly used as a shoddy miil, and at Chester there is the Hampden Emery Mill, About twelve years ago a second reservoir ‘was built, about three miles further up the stream by the Church brothers. This was smaller than the lower one, and covered from twenty-five to thirty acres. The upper reservoir broke away | first about half-past tour, and Bwept over tnd] lower reservoir with an immense voluine of water, Ymaking a break of about four rods in the highway dam of the lower reservoir, _ ‘The upper reservoir dam Was simply an earth affair and that it was considered not altogether safe may be judged from the fact that people liv- ing in 1ts immmediate neighborhood have watched it with considerable care every time a hard or lengthy rain hag occurred, and Deacon Harry Meacham, who lives only a quarter of a mile away, Went down to view it about four o’clock. He had felt uneasy about it all day, he says, bat when he @rrived there and found the water had not reached The top he felt relieved. After looking about the spot for some time, he was about to depart, when, taking @ final look, he was struck almost speechless to see a large section of the earth wall side out about four feet trom its position, beneath his very gaze. Recovering him- | Beli in aD instant he comprehended the feartul situation, threw a bridle upon his horse and rode like mad in the direction of Blush Hollow, where | ag tue large reservoir is located. There were lew peo- ple to alarm before the Hollow was reached, and he | came riding into the httle village in hot haste bringing the news of the approach of the flood. Sumuer Church and Oliver Blush were about the first people notified, and they, although they doubted the story, despatched & man down the Hollow toward Middlefield switch, while Meacham rode up to the Centre and started the people there for the Holiow to render what aid they could, ‘There was a GENERAL RUSH FOR THE HIGH GROUND, the people Jeaving their houses mostly with open doors, and in a few moments the waters had reached the large lower reservoir, and, for a time, oured over its top. ‘There was hope that his would stand the pressure, and it did so nobly for @ time, but finally the great Nume near the easterly end of tne great wall sink siowly an instant and then went down in the great whirl of waters, opening an aperture sixty Jeet long and twenty feet deep, through which the | great mass Of water rushed with the speed of a | whirlwind, The dam at Church’s factory held | and the flood turned into the street, while a branch passed down in the rear of the buildings ‘on the east side. 5 THE BUILDINGS INJURED. The large house owned by the Churches and oc- cupied by Joseph King was the first one struck, vhe water passing clear through the build- ing and tearing out floors and windows; the furniture dropped into the cellar. Nearly ‘Srposte was @ large house occupied by Alired O'Brown. The flood struck this building upon one corner, cutting out the first story from the main house entirely, while the foor of the sec- ond by! dropped down at one end, and but for a ile of aébris, which lodged near It, the whole structure would undoubtedly have gone of. On ‘the east side of the street an old barn newly fitted, with @ horse shed, corn house and a building formerly occupied for a boarding house, but re- cently used for storage, were swept away, nothing remaining but a few broken buards. Just below this is what remains of Jerome Biush’s house. One-half tne large ell was torn off and destroyed, and the upright portion ofit was turned around at & right angie. On the right of the street and about Sppceie Church’s store, which 18 still standing, although badly soaked with water, a large butid- | ing, used for storing wool and containing many bundred pounds, and @ horse shed attached, were crushed and swept out of sight. South of the store stands the remnant of Oliver Biush’s barn, packed fall_ of hay, the weight of which served as an Bnchor to the building, but did not prevent it from being completely split up and broken. On the opposite side of the stream was Oliver Blush’s it mill. wus three stories high and 60 by 40 Jeet. When the flood struck the dam | just north of it that gave way, letting | the main stream which was rushing down the street strike the mill, and it disappeared hike an egg shell. This mill had not been running for some time, but it contained ten sets of olu Biyle Woollen machinery and part of the bulldin; Was used for a grist mill. Opposite, on the left of the street, William Blush’s new barn received the tull force of the current, which bad branched toward Lhe east and south, It was a suostantial structure ANd stood the test weil, only a large wing used as a varilage house, and contuining several carriages, being carried of. A tew steps further down the stream was William Blush’s carriage felloe and Suait manulactory, ereae by Jorty feet, with an fil two stories high. This contained a good | ticular saw mull and @ large quantity of Dther valuable machinery, The waters lairly split this mill open at the bottom, the dam by the side of it going down in the gencral ruin, and the ridge of the Structure dropping in at the centre. Doly the ell, used for vending carriage work, was torn off, but the entire building will have to be pulled down. Charch’s old mill, some distance below, had a large portion of the underpinning torn out, and One of the abutments of the water wheel was de- spereey but the buiding, with its four sets of machinery, is saved. ‘This comprises the mage done at Blush Hollow, to roads and bridges, The is now ‘a rushing torrent. The highway between Bi@sh Hollow and Midwiefeid switcn was entirely obliterated, and six bridges, two of them private ones and (our belonging to the town, were carried of, The report that the large pew mull of the és | one is a stone bridge and cost $40,000, | damage done to the Boston and Albany Railroad | 21ew aollars will cover the individual damage, and Churches was undermined proves unfounded, as does the rumor that some persons were missing. ‘Tue roar of the rushing stream is described as terrific in its loudness. The mountain jarmers heard it with painiul distinctness, The damage to gardens, orchards and crops in the large hollow has been large. The people pass about among the ruins by walking on planks or from rock to rock over the rush- ing water, and this forenoon Jerome Blush's little daughter jell from 4 plank tn front of the wreck of her father’s house into the seethu water below. A stalwart fellow plunged in r her without stopping to remove any of his clothing, aud hi great difficnity in saving himself and her, At the Middiefleld switch two unoccupied houses, one of them new, and owned by West, Bulkley & . paper manufacturers, were swept away, and also an oid red house used 48 a pay office when the railroad was built. Several barns and outbuild- ings were destroyed and gardens badjy damaged. BETWKEN MIDDLEFIRLD SWITCH AND CHESTER. The new woolen mill melawar between Middlefield and Chester, owned by John Weat, Jr., of Pittsdeld, was net injured, but both ends of bis wooden dam and the head of his raceway were destroyed, His 1088 Will be from $1,000 to $2,000, A tenement house occupied by Leon Janezaux was swept away, He was absent, and bis wife, mother-in-law and four children were, with considerabie difficulty, suaded to leave the house just before it went D. H. Tucker’s family at West's mill had @ narrow escape, Mr. Tucker was away and his family fled to the high ground. Just as they reached the Boston and Albany “Orchard” Bridge it began to fall. They were mo- tioned back by Mr. Alderman, wio was on the op- posite side, but one of his Httle girls, Maggie, made @ deaperate run acroas the earth and stones, lalling a8 she ran, and finally escaped. ‘Their house was not carried away and they returned to it aiter the dafiger was Over. Another very narrow escape was that of Mr. Spanner Eas and wife, who were driving home from the funeral of sr, Tucker's fever. His horse was young or easily irightencd; | and on hearing the roar oi the waters refused to be driven giseer way. Mr. Knox sprnug out as they crossed the highway bridge on the Middle- field road, It gave Way, and the waters rose iast around them, but by great coolness they suc- ceeded in escaping, and Mr. Knox opened his doors to the {amily of Mr. Janeraux, who lost everything but whaf they wore. Prom West’s mili the water plunged down into the valley at a terrific rate, carrying every- thing before it. Beautitul meadow lands were covered with mud and débris, fences | were levelled, trees torn up by the roots and | gardens completely destroyed. The roads in | Many places are impassabic, and in some cases it 1s hard to tell where the roads were. Iu some cases the farm lands are rendered almost wortuless by being covered with gravel and débris. and in ouner cases, only the growing crops are dam- ed. WOE BOSTON AND ALDANY RAILROAD SUFFERS. At Middietield switch the long two-arched stone bridge, under which the Middlefield Brook and the turnpike rub, Was swept away, and also a consid- erable length of track, amounting in all to about 200 \eet. It will cost, probably, about $100,000 to replace this break and will require considerable | time. Between Middlefield switch and Chester depot there are etght railroad bridges, tive of which are either unharmed or but slightly damaged. Two of these are $75,000 stone bridges, Of the three bridges which are so badly damaged as to need to be entirely rebuilt, Tue other two are those next west of Chester, one of which was to have been replaced tis fall, with an iron bridge. ‘he loss on these bridges 1s about $15,000, The bridge next east of Chester station, whicn was to have been soon replaced by an iron structure, is dam- aged by the loss 01 one of the abutments, but was repaired by noon so that trains can come from Springfield to Chester, ‘The track is washed out in many places west of Chester, but no damage of any amount is reported west o1 Middletiela switch, Superintendent Russell hag been on the ground all the forenoon, having left Springtield at four o'clock this morning, and work will be prose- cuted on the bridges ag feat as possible, Forces of men _ will work both ways, com- Mencing at Chester and Middlefield, but, in spite of all that the energetic officials Sf rhe road can do, the Superintendent estimates that it Mi be seyeral days before the road will e passable. After the wrecking train had = proceeded as far as possinle this morning Mr. Russell took a hand car and went to Middlefleid to see the extent of.the disaster to the road, It will probably cost $150,000 at least to rebuild the bridges and repair the road, and the loss by the interruption of business will be very heavy, particularly as this is the college sporting week at Saratoga, and would draw many Passengers over tnis road. The following is the official statement of the up to the present time :—A culvert and flity leet of embankment are gone at the nighway east of Ches- ter; part ol the abutment is gone from tne first bridge east of Chester; at the first bridge west ot Chester the abutments are gone, and part of the bridge is in the river; at the first deck bridge above Chester the abutments are gone; tne sec- ond stone arch bridge at Middlefield is gone, fina 200 feet of embankment sixty feet. “high washed away. Tue track is also washed at Becket and Washing a7, sUpetintendent Russell, of the Boston and Al- bany Railroad, has kept up vigorous telegraph- ing all day for bridge men and others, and a large force of men, under the direction of Messrs. l. Russel, Adams and Donahue, have been at work tearing down the wrecked bridges and preparing to re - build them, A larger force will be put ca to-mor- row, and the road will be opened for travel be- tween Chester and Middlefield at the earliest mo- ment possible. THE VILLAGE OF CHESTER. At Chester the waters swept over the farms and gardens and roa and in several cases houses were moved some distance. The heaviest loser at Chester is Dr. Heman 5. Lucas, who estimates his | Joss at er by reason of damage to bis dam and emery mill. The water went through the lower story 01 the mill, carrying oif about $2,000 worth of emery. Italso did considerabie damage to Dr. Lu- cas’ aXe manulacturing business, carried on tu an | adjoming building, under the name of the Hannum | Edge tool Company. The water power of this lat- ter Sonear 18 entirely destroyed, and the emery company willeither move their dam furtuer up stream or putin steam. For the present, how- ever, they will supply all orders as usual. Dr. Lucas’ farm of filty acres was baaly dam- ed, and so was the large farm of Newton Cowles, Nearly or quite every valley resident in the vicinity of Chester has suffered more or less by damage done to farms and gardens. In some cases | in others it will amount to some hundreds of dollars, Bradlord Palmer’s barn and Samuel Ous’ soe shop were moved quite a distance, and William Fay & Son’s jurniture warehouse was badly flooded out. The building was undermined and turned partiy round. ‘The high water con- tinued at Chester about an hour. Had it continued longer the damage done would have been much more severe. the summer residence of J. C. Crocker, of Albany, was considerably damaged, and Enos Smith’s large {farm suffered — considerably. Dwight B. Judd lost about $1,000 by the flooding of his grocery store, and iiliam Fay lost about $1,000 im damage to furniture and coflins. The village of Cnester owes ita escape irom an almost entire destruction to the fact of there being so many stone arch bridges above that place, by which the flood was stayed for a time, accumulating in little ponds, to be let down in iastalments on the village below. A second cause Was the considerable width of the valley @ mile above the village, where the waters spread out somewhat as they did in the Mill River flood on the Florence meadows, Timothy Keele’s bedstead factory at Chester was damaged somewhat and about thirty feet of his raceway dam was Swept away. Charles Earle’s meat Marketin Stevens’ Block was flooded and his meat cart and some meat were carried away. It 18 hard to estimate the individual losses from their peculiar character, but probably they will amount in the aggregate to $20,000 or $25,000. The town of Chester suffers heavily in the loss of bridges and the damage done to the roads, Four bridges were carried off—tne Smith Bridge, on the Chester and Huntington road; the Fay Bridge, near the depot; the Wait Bridge, on the Chester centre road, aod the shoddy mul oridge, on the | Middlefield road, two miles above the depot. The loss of the town of Chester in roads and bridges proves more serious, the more the ruins } have been investigated, than was thought, and Selectman Knox estimates this afternoon that $15,000 will be requirea to make it good. Work has already been begun on a foot bridge across the river at the station, and the whole briage will be rebuilt ag soon as the swollen river subsides, At Huntington there was but littie damage done, the flood having mostly spent its force before it reached there. Some of the farms were flooded and water broke over the bulkhead of the High- | land Manufacturing Company’s mills, swept through the tower story and did some damage to finished goods stored there. ‘The Qoud exhausted itself before reaching West- fleld, and simply fiooded ‘the islands’ and some the low lands there, without doing any great arm. Iv is not Known at this time that any lives were lost, but several narrow escapes from drowniny occurred. Three or four persons are reported Hepes Shy itis hardly probable that they are rowned, THE LOSSES SUMMED UP, The losses of the Churches and Blushes will Teach about $100,000; roads and bridges tn Middie- field, about $10,000; in Chester,-about $15,000; in dividual losses in Chester (aside from Dr. Lucas’ $10,000), about $20,000, muking the aggregate loss, including the Boston and Albany’s loss, about $250,000. Later estimates may Vary these figures, jor the losses are hard to get at. Crowds 01 people have been to the scene of the disaster to-day, and the Mill River experiences have been lived over again, in part at least. FEAR AND EXCITEMENT IN WESTERN MASSA- CHUSETTS. As may be expected, following so close upon the Mill iver calamity, this event has caused the most profound excitement and alarm throughout all of Western Massachusetts. Franklin, Hamp- Bhire and Berkshire counties contain forty or fifty just such reservoirs as these which have so recently given way, nearly all of them were constructed twenty or thirty years ago, and are now very much weakened, ‘In near! every instance they are on an eminence, overlook. ing thickly settled wiacturing villages, and their bursting a lai loss Of life is almost inev- itable. That the danger is fully appreciated is evident from the excitement which everywhere Prevatied, In fact, the compovgn alm OM) a | minating point ; Continually nort ' 3 proaches a panic, for no one knows where the | post witmin the Indian Territory is Fort Gibson, | blow may come next. The Damage to the Albany and Boston Road—Business at a Standstill—Course of Travel Changed. CuksTER, July 13—10 P. M. The most serious and inconvenient circumstance of the flood is the damage to the Boston and Al- bany Rallroad, the great highway between the East ‘and the West. it will take all sum- mer and the expenditure of $500,000 to Tepair the roadbed and bridges which have been swept away. By the erection of temporary tressie work trains may be able to pass over the breaks in the course of a week, but until then all through business is at a standstill, In cases of special accident to railroad bridges pas- sengers can get around the wreck, but when all the hignway bridges and the highways themselves are obliterated the incon- venience to public travel may be estimated when, asin the present instance, there are five heavy through passenger trains daily between Bos- ton and Albany. This week the travel would have been largely increased on account of the Saratoga regatta. THE ALTERNATIVE now fs to go over the Hoogac Mountain or around By New York. ‘The mails between Boston and the est are sent by the latter route. The accumula- tion of ireignt at either end of the route will also be immense, as the usual complement of merchan- dise trains was twenty-five or thirty each way daily, Bridge builders, engineers and laborers will work day and night, bus it will be the best pare of & week Devore trains can pass. Thege are hree or four citizena of Chester reported ing, but no bodies have yet been found, , Werrible Rain Storm in Berkshire, Mass.—The Water, Supply of Pittsfield Cut Om, SPRINGFIELD, Mass., July 13, 1874, A special despatch from Pittsfield to the Spring. fleld Union says:— The heaviest rain known in Berkshire for years commenced Saturday evening and confinued more than twenty-four —_ hours, Between two aod four o'clock Sunday aiternoon’ the rain fell in stupendous floods, the cul- or tne shower being in Wasnington, Hinsdale and vicinity, from which the streams poured down with great violence. Ashby brook was swollen to @ torrent, and the reservoir of the waterworks was in great danger, but it was relieved by the giving away of forty Jeet of the dam, which throws the water of the brook into it, the damage being about $1,000, The water supply of the town was suddenly cut off, but a temporary connection will be made to- day, unless, a8 1s feared, the pipes are clogged with gravel. In Hinsdale the ‘Iracy or Ramage dam and the dam of Plunketts’ Jericho mill were carried away, the roads and streets are very badly washed, some small bridges are carried away and the hay crop is damaged to the extent ol many thousands of doilars by the overNow and lodging. No damage 18 reported to the ratiroads, except between Pittsfield and Springfield; put all trains from the West are stopped here, THE INDIAN TROUBLES. The Frontier Guarded. at Every Point. GENERAL POPE ON THE SITUATION. WASHINGTON, July 13, 1874, General orders from the headquarters of the Mill- tary Division of the Missouri, received at the War Department, announce that in consequence of the hostile attitude of the Comanche, Kiowa and Chey- enne Indians the existing orders fixing the limits of the Department of the Missouri are, subject to the approval of the President, so far modified as to extend the southern line of that department to the main Canadian River. In conducting opera- tions against the Indians, either for the purpose of punishing them or for the protection of per- sons and property against their aepredations, the commanding officers of the Department of the Missouri and Texas may disregard the lines sepa- rating these departments, TGR FRONTIER PROVECTED, General Pope, commanding the Department of the Missouri, has written a letter to the Governor of Kansas, acopy of which has been forwarded, showing that the whole frontier of Kansas ts lined with troops constantiy in motion, and it seems impossible that the Indians can do any damage. By application to the nearest commanding officer near any point threatened or to any of the mov- ing companies the threatened locality can be promptly attended to, ILLEGAL TRADING STATIONS, General Pope says, in reiation to the trading firms at Dodge a who have, in violation of law and to the incalculable injury of the peaceful and honest farmers and frontier settlers of Kansas, established trading posts, ot rather grogshops, in the Pan Handle of Texas, seventy-dve miles along the Arkansas, to trade with the buffalo hunrers and ruffians who have invaded the Indian country | and committed violent and inexcusable outrages upon the Indians, he has no word of sympathy or concern, and if he should send troops to the locality of these untaw.ul trading establishments it would be to break them up and not to protect them. He says to the unscrupulous and illegal transactions of these people the murders of inno- cent settlers on the {frontier are largely attributa- ble, and they ought to be punished and not pro- tected. A General Pope writes to General Sherman that, except to careloss stragglers outside the military lines, and to afew remote settlers, be thinks we are fully able to give protection from Indian out- rages. THE DISPOSITION OF THE TROOPS. The following is a detailed statement of the dis- position of the troops along the Kansas frontier, as Mentioned by General Pope in his letter to the Governor of Kansas:— First—at Caldwell, Kansas, are the headquarters of three companies o! infantry, under Captain Overshine. ‘the State as far west as Lawrenceburg, and also south srom Caldwell from the Indian Territory, on the road to the Arapahoe agency. A company of cavairy, under Captain Upiam, marched trom Caldwell, along the southern line of Kausas, to where the Medicine Lodge Creek crosses the boundary, with orders to scout up the valley of that creek and keep in communication with the infantry detachment west of Caldwell. Captain Overshine at Caldwell commands ail this infantry, and will promptly render such help as he can and as may be needed, Second—Colonel 0. E. Compton commands Fort Dodge and has general charge of the country along the Medicine Lodge Creek and north, east and West of that stream, a8 also of the line of the Ar- Kansas, a3 far up us Grenada, He has under his command five infantry and five cavalry com- anies. four of the cavalry companies are scout- ing thorougnly along Medicine Lodge and South and Southeast lodges. The other cavalry company patrols constantly the line of the Arkansas as far up as Grenada. The iine of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, between Larned and Grenada, is guarded throughout by a detachment of intantry, posted at all important points. Colonel Compton commands the whoie, and is a prompt, energetic officer, who will be ready to act with intelligence and spirit. Thrd—At Camp Supply there are three infantry and two cavajry companies, the latter scouting and northeast of the post, as tar as fled Lodge Creek. Colonel wis com- mands. Fourth—Colonel Smith, at Lyon, has four com- panies of cavalry and two of hia One com- pany is continually scouting the Valley of the Ar- ‘ansas from Lyon to Grenada, about fiity miles, The other three companies are scouting the line of the Purgatory River, between Lyon and the Raton Mountains. ‘There is @ company of cavalry at Fort Hayes and one at Grinnell station, just east of Waliace, held there im cuse of trouble on the Saline and Solomon rivers, Tne Strength of the Federal Forces— Probable Designs of the Redskins, The Chicago Inter-Ocean of Saturday publishes the following facts obtained at military head- quarters:— The indian bands who are reported to have “gone on the warpath,” and to have murdered and scalped several ranchmen, belong to the ennes, Comanches and Kiowas, ‘These are among the most warlike and powertul of the In- dian tribes, and have become known and feared as raiders, The Comanches and Kiowas occupy jointly the southwest corner of the Indian Terri- tory, thus bordering Texas, into which they fre- quently make marauding incursions, Tne Apaches entered into coniederation with these tribes, and occupy the reservation with the Kiowas and Comanches. It ts probable, therefore, that many of these red men have joined with their brethren in going out in searon of plunder, ‘The Cheyennes, wno number about 3,000, occupy, with the Arapahoes, the most northerly reserva- tion lying on the border line of Southern Kansai It thus appears that the Kiow: ind Comanches, leaving their reservations, marched north for about 150 miles. There they were joined by some of the Oheyenne tribe, and, with their united forces, they entered Kansas and committed the murders and outrages reported. Indian Agent Miles sent to Fort Sill for troops. This is a post on manche, Kiowa and Apache reservation, There are Cage ee for half a dozen compantes and four months’ provistona are kept in store. The garrison witen complete numbers 654 men. It at resent containa 266 men, belonging to the Twen- fifth infantry, under the command of Vay ya The fort {s 146 miles from, depot thi aeet POMS Ona FaWaY be ‘Tbe ploer miter The companies are to be posted in de- | tachmeats as needed along the southern line of | whicn is situated at the northeast corner, 63 Fort | Sill is placed at the soathwest corner of the red men’s jands, This second post has # garrison of about 1,000 men. In conversation with Assistant Adjntant General Drum, the reporter inquired whether any late despatch bad been received respecting the trou- bies m Kansas, The General produced a despatch just received from General Pope, who is in command of the troops operating against the tribes, It was to the effect that the Comanches, Kiowas and Cheyennes, im small bands, had tried his whole line in South- ern Kansas, the Indians moving by way of the Arkansas ana Neosho rivers, “What troops has General Pope under his com- mand ?’ interrogated the reporter. ‘The Nineteenth infantry and Sixth cavalry,” re- sponded the General, “And how many Indians will they have to face?” “It 1s tmpossivle to gay.” “What will be the gross number of Comanches, Kiowa and Cheyenne bands who are on the war- path ? inquired the reporter, “The total number,” said the General, “! could not give you; but they are about in large bands.” “From what source were the troops under Gen- eral Pope’s command drawn 4 General Drum Walked across the room toa Jarge map of the Indian Territory, which hung on the walls, and pointing to several forts which stand near the southern boundary of Kansas, stated that they were drawn from those garrisons. “fhe troops are, then, operating {rom Fort Leavenworth and the Kansas posts?” suggested the newsgatherer, The General assented, and added that “the troops are endeavoring to break up the band and drive them back to their reservation. To leave their lands and enter upon a raid is a direct vigla- tO of the treaties. So soon as driven back ry the Kangas line the band will probably ma ed } raid into Texas, and then the baglee will have to oper Way of the Canadian River and other poin' “in that case,” asked the reporter, ‘would nov the troups from Fort Gibson and other posts be concentrated at Fort Sill 7? ‘The General conceived that Fort Sill would probably be one of the most important points from which the troops would operate. “A general order has just been prepared,” con- tinued General Drum, ‘by which tne limits of the military department are extended so as to meet the exigencies of the case. and the oilicers of the Departments of Missouri and Texas are empow- ered to disregard the dividing lines in their opera- tions against the bands.’? | A Three. Day’s Herote Battle. | The Topeka (Kan.) Commonwealth of a late date, speaking of a party of hunters having been sur- | rounded by the Indians on the Cimaron, seventy- five miles trom Caldwell, says:— d Yesterday (Tuesday) they managed to send in word again to the effect that they were still tight- | ing, that eight of their number had been killed, but | that they had made sixteen Indians bite the dust. The savages had obtained reiniorceinents and were gradually hemming them im and rendering escape impossible. They impiore immediate help, and | send word that they cannot hoid out against the opposing force much longer. They have man- aged to keep the Indians at bay thus far, but they will grow more bold as they become stronger. | Despatches to this effect were seut to Governor Osborn yesterday and were Jorwarded to General Pope. The defence made by ths handful of men against four times the number oi {Indians has been a most heroic one, and proves the grit and in- domitable courage of the men of the border. It is | only @ question of time, however. when they must succumb to superior force and their valor be laid low and their gallant conduct be as a tale that 1s told. Even now the relentless and blood thirsty Cheyennes and Kiowas may have closed in upon thein and butchered them without mercy. They will not die unavenged, however. The blood of the frontiersmen is up, and these murders | and scalpings are but the prologue to a merciless | war of extermination which bas been long threat. ening, but which, we believe, will be now waged Uatil the fast Indian shall bite the dust. CREEDMOOR. The Twenty-Eighth Battalion (Brook- lyn), N. G. 8. N. ¥., at Ball Practice— A Marker Wounded—Promiscuous Fir- , ing and a Busy Time. The Twenty-eighth battalion, Fifth brigade of | vhe Second division, N. G. 8. N. Y., proceeded yes- | terday morning to Creedmoor for rifle practice. | The corps lett their armory in Stagg street, | Brooklyn, E.D., in time to march through Wil | liamsburg to Hunters Point and take the 9:35 | A.M, train to the practice grounds. Firing at the | 200 yard range commenced about eleven o'clock, Firing was commenced at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, and immediately afterwards a very | a larger portion in the Northwest. We described | serious accident happened, In front of the line of | targets a covered way rans across the entire | range. In front of the target and a few | feet from it is a ballproof recess in which | the marker stands. This recess being below the terre-plein, 19 lighted by a skylight furnished | armed possession of one end of San Juan, the | | most valuable of those islands, while we quietly with exceedingly strong glass to enable the marker to view the target while firing ts going on. | Yesterday, after the first shot had been discharged at No. 15 target, P. Barton, the marker, had not | time to close his skylight before another ball came and struck the mark, ‘The force of the impact was | such that the ball flew into pieces, one of which | Was reflected {rom the iron and struck the man in | the right breast, making a deep and dangerous | wound. Regimental surgeou Groux at ‘once probed for the lead, but was unabiec to find it; and | otherwise treated the injured man, who towards | six o'clock in the evening was affected by a spit- ting of blood. This lamentable accident in nowise interfered witn the shooting, nor deterred the | other markers from running the risk of their lives | beiore a set of men, some of whom were the most | reckless that ever visited Oreedmoor. The shoot | ing was over @ little after tour o'clock, and had | there been provisions made by the railroad com- | pany to transport the battalion to Hunter’s Point | by the 4:40 P. M. train the exhibition which fol- | lowed of some disgraceful scenes of an CMa ty | breaches of discipliuae and wrangling might have been prevented. es 0 iw fone eee peeve Mcerg and jngu—sdine Of thé intoxicated beloys they fein to wait at the Greedmionk | restaurant were spent in swilling execrable beer, | fightin here and there in groups, in | some ‘Tnstances oficers and men mixed up together. The officers seemed to exercise no coutrol over their men whatever. Lieutenant Colonel Obernier was struck at and knocked up | against the door of the hotei by a drunken soldier, who avowed his intention of demolishing every- body and everything that came within nis reach; a | threat which he made Sag, soihsond attempts to exe- | cute until induced by the drawn sword of an officer od the efforts of half a dozen men to change his Mind, At tue railroad station and near the cars things were in about as confused a condition. A rivate let fly @ shot under the nose of Lieutenant | layer, of Dcompany. ‘The officer, not seeing any \ impropriety in the act, took no notice of it, Other | shots were fired irom the windows, All this time there was no sign of Colonel Burger, and he did | not appear on the Scene until the second beating | of the jong roll, when the men had tumbled into | the ranks anyhow, and were climbing, as begt the | tipsy ones of them could, into the cars, It must | not be understood that ail of the oMicers or men | were intoxicated and disorderly on duty, for a | large number of them are exemplary citizens and worthy gentlemen; but the sooner that the Fougns and drunkards who disgraced their | unilorms yesterday can be got out, or, if not, the | battalion disbanded, the better it will be for the | service. | THE SCORE. | Ranges, Yards, Names, Lieut. Treyz, Co, A... : { ¢ ; Captain Himnicke, Co. C.. Me : t Hi Captain Schwetzer, Co. @..} 5) § $ 8 3 Lieutenant Miller, CoC... $2) 3 2 3 3 2 | Private Hamm, Co. I........ $338 Captain Wandt, Co. H i : : : Private Hummel, Co. G.....} ; ; H 7 Private Erdmann, Co. A,... 30) 8 BB 2 Corporal Throgade, Oo. A... } 2%) ia: | Private Schenck, Co. ‘ jx Hy H 2 Sergeant Hurtscheek, Co, @. } 34) a9 | Lieut. Mayer, Co. D......... 4 : | Private Maery, Co. B........ {28 H Sergeant Bechtold, Co. G... {24 g 8 | Lieut. Frevort, Co. D......4 {2M : myn Capt. Dohling, Co. D.. Corporal Raskopf, Co. H Sergt. Stackmann, Co. H..., !3%) Private Rabenberger, Co. G. 133) Lieut. Hartmann, Co, G, Pd ‘ t 4 t Lieut. Schevactzel, Co. G..} 4 t AKU CmC IME OS eR CENS RE Lientenant Lenz, Co. A...... } Sergeant Hunnetter, Co. a,. | 7} 5u0 Private Shorgerwald, Co, B, } 710 Private Stueber, Co. D....... |) Private Siegmann, Co. C.... | 2 Drummer Behelein, Co. H.. | 7) MCR E CRON CHR NORSK CH CCE RON UCOK CMM EC OU EN SES SURE CHES WoceoreSmn SWS S ESI CUR MENSCH OSHNCE RSH EON MOANA m ASE, Sewmoece cw cuca cu onewcroneSooMmoenecnen escoscecccuniccencsocuccone Captain Herat, Oo. ......... $y btu Private Bodenstedt. Co, D... 1 bom 13 Private Linden, Co. G...,,., } 29} ve Bhs Private Haman, Co, H..,,,, {28 C3is Sergeant Schmidt, Co, H.... {20 Ets Sergeant Sauoner, Co, G,.., {22 dai | their products free access to our markets, REPUBLICANISM, cit ee Sy Address of the Party Leaders. to the Nation. | A PLEA FOR POWER. | General Grant and the Third Term | Question Ignored. REVIEW OF THE PAS T. Republican and Democratic Rule Contrasted. Three Great Labors Yet To Be Performed. WASHINGTON, July 13, 1874. After the adjournment of Congress, the mag- nates of the republican party, Z Chander, J. M. Edmunds and others held several meetings to de- vise ways and means towards the inauguration of | the Congressional campaign, and it was finally de- | termined to request Senator Howe to draft an ad- | dress tothe people of the United States. The | paper is considered by the leaders the best pos- | sible defence of the party, and is satd to be char- | acterized by great adroitness, It is intended to | be the basis upon which the party 1s to ve united | and the Congressional battle is to be fought, It | contains the essence of a thousand campaign | speeches, The remarkable features are the ab- | | sence of all eulogy or even reference to President | Grant, and the admission that upon the currency | question the party is divided. The transportation | question is treated in the most conservative man- ner, which it was deemed wise to do, since the | feeling about railroad regulation runs high in Wis- consin and the West. ‘This manifesto, which will be sent to all local republican journals in the Unton, with a request to be copied, constitutes the initiative of the campaign and the common raily- | ing point. It is the first issued since 1866, when | republicans waged war on President Johnson and his followers. FOREIGN RELATIONS UNDER REPUBLICAN RULE. The document would make about a page of the | HERALD, and purports to be a review of republican | achievements since the party was called to the ad- ministration of national affairs, Like the Presi- dent’s Message, it begins with allusion to our for- eign relations, and declares that of the thirty years of democratic control, prior to 1861, there 18 hardly a memory left at which the nation should not blush. Under this rule Austria was bullied out of a Hungarian reiugee, Mexico despoiled of a portion of her ter- ritory, Greytown demolished and millions jingled im the cars of Spain as a lure for Cuba, The Ostend manifesto is satirized; and, while our conduct to- wards weaker Powers was firm, during the years | of democratic control @ naturalized citizen could not safely revisit his birthplace and letters coula only be sent by paying enormous postage. Of our relations towards Great Britain during this time the address contains a significant paragraph, in harmony with the recent letter of Speaker Blaine:—_, “We tamely relingnished to Great Britain a por- | tion of our territory in the Northeast, another and the line agreed upon in the Northwest so loosely that Great Britain immediately laid claim to large islands on our side of it. That insuiting claim was neither resisted nor admitted, It was compromised by permitting the claimant to hold squatted on tue other end; and while, by succes- | sive concessions, we were constantly adding to the area of the Canadas, we stupidly relinquished to as the equivalent of being allowed to send similar pro- ducts from the Northwest through Canadian chan- nels to such precarious markets as they could find | on the other side of the Atlantic.” ACHIEVEMENTS OF CONGRESS, Having disposed of democratic diplomatic achievements, the story of home rule prior to the advent of the republican ,party into power is dwelt upon at great length and pronounced sadder than that of the foreign policy, pointing out that deficient revenues were made good froin time to time by loans, The prolonged sessions of Congress prior to 1861 are denounced as worse than a waste of time and Money. “33. The address then recites the scanty appropria- tions made to improve harbors and rivers, and on this point it ts the evident mtention of the com- mittee to prejndice the granger element of the West against democracy by showing up its past record, Under this head, the history of the origin and completion of the Louisville and Portland Canal is given at length, the manner in which democratic administrations refused to take charge 5 of it and relieve the steamboat interest of agigan- | , He monopoly, while the corporation was virtually swindling the government and the people through influences in Washington. THE REBELLION RECORD. The record of the democratic administration while the rebellion was yet in its inciptency 1s next approached, Of the army it says it was oficered far too Jargely by those who had been educated in | every soldierly grace save that of allegiance. The navy was scattered in remote seas, while the doctrine of State rights was preached on every democratic house top that “the people of the United States” may not forget that Slavery 18 dead. This subject is elaborated and all the democratic sins of omission and commission laid bare to the world, until the greater sin of | tomenting a wicked rebellion was committed. THE GREAT NATIONAL REFORMS AND TRIUMPHS, Having pointed out the evidences of unfitness, “in the opinion of the Congressional Committee,” why democracy should never be resurrected, the | address takes up the great and glorious course of the republican party since March 4, 1861, The Union has been preserved, slavery abolished, human rights have gained the sanction of three new chapters added to the national constitution ; murder, organized in several States, bearing the name of Ku Klux, has been exposed, convicted, punished. The new cra tn diplomacy growing out 1 the Treaty of Washington, the relinquishment of the San Juan claim and the payment of the Geneva award, are pointed to as republican triumpns. The establishment of postal treaues with every nation on the earth and cheapening the postal rate is alluded vw with pride. THE SPANISH DIFFICULTY, This is all the committee find suitable in regard to the Virginius outrage:—When, in October last, @ Spanish Vice Consul in Cuba so far forgot the re- spect due to the United States as to seize upon @ vessel sailing under the protection of her fag, Spain promptly, without the firing of a gun or spilling @ drop of blood, made that hpnorable rep- gration which every just government 1s glad to make for @ wrong done,” “ THE UNPARALLELED PROSPERITY OF THE COUNTRY, Increase of inland commerce, extension of rail- roads in every direction and an increase of our Population are ail traced to the beneficent admin- istration of the government by the republican party. The policy of discontinuing subsidies to railroads is indorsed, after which the bird of free- dom 13 let loose and a gush of rhetoric more bril- Nant than tne comet indulged in at much length. Coming back to facts, the address detalis the prog- ress made in reducing the public debt and taxes, | ‘While the stability of our finances is considered a gocd card for the tall elections, THE APPEAL TO THE PROPLE then begins as follows:— “You are about to select Representatives to a new Congres, We carucatly eatreat you to send the truest and ablest republicans you have; but we entreat you to send repubiicans and not demo. crats. You will send one or tne other. No matter what the individual may call himself or what disguise he may wear, he will be a republican ora democrat. There 18 at present no room for any other style in our polices. If you do not mean to retrace the past you wili select republicans and not democrats. If you mean to go forward in the future you will select republicans and not dem- ocrats.”” This paragraph bits at the Southern republicang Who voted against the Civil Rights bill and some | who did not respect party traces with doctlity. ‘The assertion that the mission of the republican party ts dead is denied, and in regard to the occa- | Slon for political effort on {is part it 18 asserted that to preserve the. good aiready accomplished aud advance the work of reform is still its mission. THREE GREAT LABORS are pointed out as demanding present considera tion, It says:— “The fourteenth amendment to the constitution ia not yet enforced by appropriate legislation. Millione of American citizens are denied even the | common law rights of locomotion because they | areblack, If such wrongs are to be redressed, the republican party alone can do it. “TIE CURRENCY is In an abnormal condition and must be reformed, It is undoubtedly true that the repubiican party is not agreed how to effect that reform; neitner is the democratic party. Neither party, as such, yet sees clearly the right way. But there are two reasons for believing that the republican party rather than its rival can best treat this great question of the finances— First, as the former has hitherto found the true way through graver dificuities than this, 80 we believe it is more apt tosind the true | way through this. Secona, you have abundant assurance that when republicans discover the true way they will pursue it. That assurance has not as yet been given by the other party, while the republican party has given undoubted evi- dence in the past tnat it will protect the national. credit and honor, THE QUESTION OF CHEAP TRANSPORTATION is the third and last subject which the committee. think will be the vital question in the coming: campaign, After enumerating the products of the different agricultural States and what a greas saving even a slight reduction on the cost of tra porting a bushel of grain would make, the address concludes as follows :— Our internal commerce demands additional and less expensive facilities, Tue volume of that come merce has grown in these lusty times to enormous proportions, Great as has been the increase ol transportation facilities sce tne advent of the republican party they have not kept pace with the demand for them. Not only do immense bulks: seek movement, but they require to be moved over vast distances, ‘The surplus products of those almost unlimited basins—that between the Alleghany and Rocky Mountains and that be- tween the latter range and the Sierra Nevadas— require to be dipped out into the ocean on either side. Production is not only so vast in amount but it is so unequally distributed. Of the sprin, Wheat grown in the United States Wisconsin an lowa raise nearly one-half, Of the winter wheats Indiana and Ohio produce, nearly one-third, Of the corn raised linoig alone grows one-sixth. Of the tobacco Kentucky raises nearly one half. Nine States raise nearly all the cotton consumed | in tis country and much of that consumed in Europe. The cotton fabrics manulactured in the United States in 1870 were valued st $157,000,000, Of these $59,000,000 were manuiactured in Massa- chusetts. Of course the distribution of these and the great ‘variety of other commodities ne- cessitates @ vast amount of transportation. Eleven States occupying the Mississippi Val- ley send to market annually a surplus of its cereal products equal to 300,000,000 bushels, To cheapen the carriage of that singie commodity by the amount of only ten cents per bushel is & -6aving Of $30,000,000 to the peopie. VARIOUS EXPEDIENTS | have been suggested tor lessening the cost or trausportation. In some of the States it has been | proposed to place railway fares and freights under the control of the State. The objections to that | expedient are’so serious that it should not be em- braced if a better one can be found, This country is so new, 60 raw and so undeveloped, the de- mands for capital are so many and so urgent, that | any policy Wich would tend to drive capital from us howd be avoided if possible. Tne State is but the aggregate of the people in the State. |The people are the purchasers of trans- | portation, The railway companies have trans- | portation to sell. The law also hoids | railroad companies to be common carriers, and 80 bound to carry for all when the price is paid. It ts | now @ mooted question whether that price shall be named by the companies or by the hag the sellers or the purchasers of the article. hich of these | two parties is legaily authorized to fix that price | is prooadly determined by the laws under which | the severai companies are organized. But which of them Can, in fact, {1X it 18 a different question. Itis manifest that i the company be allowed to | fix the price they may demand too mucn. Venders of all commodities are very apt to want all they can | get. On tne contrary, if the people or their agents | fix the price they may set tt too low. Purchasers are very apt tO want commodities as cheap as | they can be had. It 18 not probable that ‘ eitier party to the transaction would always | hit upon the exact equivalent, ‘fhe consequences | ofa mistake would probably be Jound most in- Jurious if made by the people. If the company makes the mistake and charges too much no one ig obliged to employ it. The producer does bis | own ¢ has HERES the railway 8 built. He hag: | the pegfect rig! Cat) Breer Hy js built, covery | company is compelled vy the [aWs 0! Fade, even if municipal law ts Silent, to carry products cheaper than the producer can carry them, or he will not have them to carry, The company must also carry them at a profit to the producer, else the product will cease, The farmers of dows ) wil end no wheat to Chicago unless the fons Will transport it at rices which will yield a groge othe producer. The carrier must earn Inoney for the producer as well as for himself, else he wiil soon have nothing to carry, It is as absurd for the ratiways to de- mand more for transportation than the producer can afford to pay as it Was tor the man tn the fab.e to endeavor to get two golden eggs each day, from his gogse, ‘The attempt to do so was deat! | to thé #odse. Under favoraple conditions, indeed, the carrier may demand and receive more than e fair share of the protits of production, Where such is the case, when the State finds the producer makes but ten per cent while the carrier makes fifteen or twenty per cent, it is very easy and Bathe legitimate for it to say to the Robe: fag ‘he WOrK you do can ! be done for less money. We will pay you for your road what tt will cost to build such another, or you may keep your road and we will build gnother.”” So the people are not heipless agatnst exorbitant charges. On the contrary, if the people set the price and get it too low the consequences may ve ver. The company has no option, It must accept the price named or notrun, Ii the rates named will afford a slight return on the capital existing companies may continue to run, but no more capital willencoanter like risks, If the raves will yield no return the road cannot be run. Com- pany and community in that case are alike ruined. ‘ros expedient seems to be too nazardous to adopt If a better can be found. | Another expedient is to build a double track railway between the Mississippi and the Atlantic, ‘over which any party may run trains, and all trains to run with the same rate of speed. This is worthy of careful consideration. | THB PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED BY REPUBLICANS { ALONE, But whatever may or may not be expedient to | be done, this mach seems certain—if the national | government ts todo anything Whatever to cheapen transportation only the republican party can be | relied upon to doit. The democratic party has | forsworn all such labors. Long ago they deter- | mined the constitution would not permit the gov- ‘ernment to remove an obstruction irom a harbor ora river. Its vain to suppose they will fina uoW authority to build canals or construct rail- Ways. But we are uot leitin doubt as to their present disposition, ‘Two votes given during the | past session—one in the Senate on Mr. Windom’s | amendment to the River and Harbor bill and one in the House on Mr. McCrary's Railway bill—wilt prove paced alldoubt that the democrats, like | the Bourbons, have learned nothing good, even if | they bave forgotten anything bad. , THE MORAL OF THB PAST. | Upon all these considerations, for al} these rea- | sons, we think you should send republicans and not democrats to tke next Congress. If you | cherish the deeds of the recent past and would | not see them undone, if you reapect the present. and wonld not disgrace it, or if you have hope of | the future and would realize that hope, we urge | you to send republicans and not democrats to the: | next Congress. The address {s signed by Senator Zach Chan- | dler, chairman ot the committee, and thirty-eight | Senators and Representatives, members of whe committee, the New York member being Congress~ man Thomas 0. Platt, OBITUARY, Thomas C, T. Buckley. Mr. Thomas ©. T. Buckley, @ leading member 0) the Bar, and a partner in the well known law firm Of Platt, Gerard & Buckley, died at Geneseo on Sunday last. He was one of the feading counsel for ¢x-Mayor Hall and stood nig In the profession. Mr. Buckley married first the ter of the iate James W. Gerard, and his present wife, who sur- wes is a daughter of ex-Governor Young, of ta Robert Cunningham of Manitoba. Toronto, Canada, July 13, 1874. Intelhgence has been recéived here of the death of Robert Cunningham, member of the Dominion Varlament Jor Marquette, Manitoba,