Office of Indian Affairs
Washington, DC
HON. C. SCHURZ
Muscogee, Indian Territory
Dispatches received today from Agent Meeker convoy information of an expected outbreak by his indians. A later dispatch from Rawlings reports that Major Thornburgh’s command was attacked by the Indians on Milk Creek, eighteen miles north of the agency, and that the major and thirteen soldiers were killed, and fears are expressed that Agent Meeker and his employees are massacred. The reports may be exaggerated. Will confer with Secretary McCrary.
E.A. Hayt,
Commissioner