The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1847-04-09
The Exploits or " Old Rough and Ready, Pre-.
vious TO the Mexican War.
THE sHoE OF FORT HARRISON.

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THE sEoE OF FORT HARRISON
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DrAa s,s-or Tbn.sd.r r.Hmn 1880 SsPt. lo.n ls2
treat beating four rnns @ % s atsr re-
tion vhera to s WIZ uearo 70 nrs IN the oirec-
were making no. s3,rt ,no % VINO Eesaea mere
was ,nnra..aS ;S tio VIC Ior.
tr, III ts Impressed WITH an idea that they were
dav informed me that Tho proh,,s y, oS hso .na.
here for the purpose Of oa .o9n ny oe
they had been directed 10 ieaye his niaco ,hich @
were about to do did not think II ndsnt ~ sand o,,
Mt that late hour Of the night 20 s. r. - "a 1900
of them and their not coming in convinced %s tSot
was right In nv conjecture wo;tad Len . . ..
next morning when sent ont q Cornorai ,i,b sn'on
party find them if 1t could be done without trimming
too much risk of being drawn into az auhnscada lie
sent back to inform me that he had found them
both killed and wished To tnor M snS,hr an, Wy ~
| sent the and oxen had them brought in and bu
red they had been shot with two halls scanad and emf
| in the most shocking manner ate in IN. evsnna NJ
the 4th instant Joseph cnar and between 40 and 40
Indians arrived from the PROPHETS town with white
fag among whom were about 10 women and tho men
composed chiefs of the different tribes that com
| pose the PROPHETS party ~ f
| Shawanoe man that smoke GOOD ENGLISH ;nfrr,e mo
that old Lenar to speak To me next morning
and try to get something to eat At rereat h.atina
examined the mems arms and found them oil IN eod
order and completed their CARTRIDGES 10 M round nor
man. As had not been able to mount guard of more
than six prvates and two non officers for
time past and sometimes part of them every other
day. from the unhealthincss of tho company had not
conceived nv force adequate to the defnc of This most
should vigorously attacked for some time mast A.
had just recovered from a very severe attack of the
| hc nil -
After tattoo cautioned the guard to be vgilant and
dered of the commissioned officers as the sen
could not see every part of the garrison to walk
around the inside during the whole night to prevent
the Indians taking any advantage of US provided thew
had any intention of attacking us About IL O'Clock
awakened by the firing of one of the sentinels;
sprung up ran out and ordered the men to their posts
when my orderly who had charge of the
block house, called out that the Indians had fred the
lower block (Which contained the property of the
contractors which was deposited in the lower part the
upper having been assigned to corporal and ton nr;
| yotea n alarm had n.
pretty smarty from both sides directed the buckets
to be got ready water brought from the well and the
fire extinguishcd immediately as il was perceiyabe mt
that time debility or some Other cause tho men
were very slow in executing my orders The word fire.
appeared to throw whole them into confson and
by the time they had got tho water and broken omen
the door the fire had unfortunately communicated to
quantity of whskey (the stock having licked several
holes through the lower part of the building after the
salt that was stored there through which they had in
troduced the fire without being discovered the night
very dark and in spite of every cxcrtiop we could
make of in less than Il minute it assembled to the
roof and baed every effort could extinguish
it. As that block house adoincd the that make
part of the Notifications, most of the men immc-
diately themselves for lost and had the great
est difficulty in getting my orders exccuted-and sir
what from the raging of the frethe yelling and howl
ing ofscveral hundred Indians the cries of women and
children "a part soldiers and part citizens wives who
had taken shelter in the fort-and responding of
many OF the men, which was worse than all
sure you that my feelings very unpleasant in
deed there were not more than ten fifteen able
at Others being either sick GONZALES
cent-and to add to our other misortunes two Of
men IN fort ana That had confidence
in jumped the picket and left But my presence of
mind did not for moment forsake me- saw by throw
ing OIL part Of the roof that joined the that
| was on hre and Keeping the end perfectly wet, the
whole row Of buildings might be saved and leave only
an entrance oils or 20 feet for the Indians to a
| ter the house was consumed and that temporary
breastwork might be formed to their entering
even there convinced the that this could be ac-
compished and it appeared inspire them with new
life and never did men act with frmness or des-
pcraton Those that able (wwe others kept ND a
from the other ock house and the two has
wifi nr laVE
at their head (who acted With the greatest rness
presence of mind the whole time the attack lasted
which was seven hours under shower Of bullets in
less than moment, threw of much Of the roof as
was necessary This done only with the loss one
man and two wounded, and am in hopes neither Of
them dangerously Inc man that was killed was little
deranged and did not get oil OF the house
reced or he would not have been hurt and although
the barracks were several times in blaze, and I'M
mense quantity OF frc against them the used such
exeron that they kept under and before day raised
temporary breastwork as nigh AZ IA mans head. Al
though the indians continued to pour In heavy fire
OF Dai ana an innumerabe quantity OF arrows during
the whoie Time the IN every part of the pa
rade had but one other man killed nor other wound
ca inside the iortand ne lost ms life by being too anxious
he got into one of the galies in tho bastons and
nred over the pickes ana called out to his comrades
that he had killed an Indian aud negecng to stoop
down in an instant he was shot dead One of the
| VINO Jumped the picket returned an hour before day,
and running towards the gate, begged for Gods
for to be opened suspected it TO be stratagem of
the Indians To get IN as dd not recognise the voice
directed the men in the bastion where happened to be-
to shoot him. let him he who he would and of
hred at him but fortunately he ran up to the other
baston, where they knew his voice and DR. Clark d-
rected him to lie down close to the pickes behind
empty barrel that happened to be there and at daylight
had him let in His arm was broken In most shock
ing manner, which he says was done by the Indians
winch suppose was the cause OF his returning think
II probable that he viii not recover The other they
caught about 1870 yards from the garrison and him
all 10 pieces After Keeping up constant fire until
about six clock the next morning. which began to
OUT OF the reach OF our guns party OF them drove
up te horses that belonged to the citizens here and
tney coua not eaten them very readily shot the whole
oi thc III our s,sht as wen as number OF their hogs
lhcy drove on the whole OF the cattle which amounted
20 90 mead as well as the public oxen had the vacancy
| before as n by he ming