The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1869-06-25
PARTICULARS OF THE LATE INDI.
AN FIGHT.


Sunday morning we gave the fact that
party of Cheyenne Indians had attack
ed Col. Greenwood's party Of surveyors,
and that four Indians had been killed.
We yesterday received further partic-
ulars of the fight. Our information
from Sheridan is that Col. Greenwood's
surveying party who are engaged in sur
yeying the route of the railroad (Kansas
Pacific) from Sheridan to Denver City,
were attacked Saturday morning, about
fifteen miles west of Sheridan, by par
ty of some fifty CheyeIines. The attack
of the Indians was sudden and uneX-
pccted, but the surveyors being well
armed, succeeded in killing four. wound
ing several others and compelling the
rest to seek safety in a prccipitate re-
treat. In Col. GreenwOOd's party were
two brothers named Schuyler, both of
whom were wounded. One of the bro
theirs received three balls in the thigh,
and his condidition is regarded as critic
al. The other brother was shot in the
foot, and his wound is regarded as
slight. The brother, who was so badly
hurt had his horse shot from under him.
the animal receiving four balls. The
other Schuyler was at one time so clos
to tlic Indians that he put his gun close
to the side of savage and shot him
dead, at the same time receiving several
slight lance wounds himself. Persons
OH the mail train going West, Friday,
report having seen some forty or fifty
Indians about twenty miles west of
Hays City.
Still another account comes to MS
from the West, that Howard and james
Schuyler had hand to hand fight with
the Indians as aboye stated that James
Schuyler was badly wounded i'm the
thigh, but not dangerously, His broth
Howard, was some twenty miles in adj
vance of the party of surveyors, when
he was set upon by the red devils, with
whom he had a running fight, until he
met the party of surveyors, of which he
was one. He succeeded in killing four
of the Indians himself in his run-fifing
only eight shots and escaped with a
slight wound. His horse received four
wounds during the chase. One ball
passed through the stock of his carbine.
Ii was in this chase the Indians pressed
him so closely that he put his gun To
the Indians side and killed him. james
Schuyler has been taken to Sheridan and
is receiving every care and attention,
The race for life of Mr.. Howard Schuy-
Ter is thrilling, aud would furnish an
excellent chapter to the writer of ro-
nance or of daring adventure. Alone
upon the broad prairie, twenty miles
from any civilized human being, he finds
himself attacked by about fifty yelling.
bioodthirsty red demons, and with a
courage and presence of mind which
cannot but inspire the reader with adj
miration for him. he resolves to sell his
life as dearly as possible. ifaIl avenues
of escape are not eat of. But fortune
favors the brave. Turning his horse
he dashes for the camp of his friends.
Yelling and bowling follow his inSatiate
enemies, fifty to one. Onward dashes
the bold rider. and as each Indian ap-
proaches him, well directed shot
brings him 10 the earth. The race is
kept up until he reaches his companions,
and he.i is saved after having killed four
ofthe pursuing fiends, when his horse
sinks under him exhausted and pierced
with fonr bullets.
The same party ofsIndians that made
the attack above described stampeded a
wagon train osI Saturday evening. eight
miles west of Sheridan they succeed
ed III capturing two mules and wounded
a teamster- They lost pony. Five of
the miscreants approached the outskirts
Of Sheridan, but did no damage.