Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1876-03-23

part in the affair came to the public
ear; for she herself maintained a
strict silence concerning it and she
cnioined the same upon her mans SER
want, Isaac.
4 Snail Seltlem mt or Waite, on the
Yellow stone iIemmed In by Indians.
A correspondent OF the y. Y. Her
! all writes from BOZemun, Montana,
under date OF Feb. 2ith, Us follows:
The troops at Fort Ellis have all
Z me to the relief of Fort Pease. They
left here. on the 22I of February, and
are reported in camp on the Rosebud.
A few days ago two men came in
here and stated they were just from
Fort Pease, which place they had
left ten days before. They came
through in the night. They said u
severe fight had taken place on the
81 OF Janaary between the Sioux ln-
6ians under Sitting Bull and the gar
rison at Fort Pcase, in which IA great
many Indians were killed and wound
ed, aud six OF The garrison wounded,
two of whom have since died. Fight
ing has been going on ut Fort Pease
almost every day since the second OF
/ January, aud at last accounts all the
men but fourteen had abandoned the
post, and these were surrounded by
Indians and unable TO get away.
Around a square, 300 feet in diane
ter, trees six inches thick and twen-
ty-two feet high, were set in II trench
four feet deep and firmly pinned to-
gether. forming a strong stockade, as
protection against bullets. On the
/ inside of the stockade and two feet
from the wall the houses were built.
connecting with each other. Back OF
the houses, eight feet from the
ground, IA gangway OF plank hewed
/ from logs ran around the stockade,
Oh which men could stand and fire
through the loopholes. The stock
AIDE was loopholed above and below
the gangway, or scaffold, as the from
tieIsmen call it, The roofs or the
4 houses were higher than the s;ockade
and were also loopholed. All the
houses. as well as the stockade. Were
built OF green logs. so that they
would not burn. and the roofs cover
ed with dirt. Heavy gates for in
gress and egress, on opposite sides
of the fort completed the stronghold
OF the little colony.
The last man from the fort is Mr..
Hubbell, who came in on the 10Th,
with letters to the commander ut
Fort Ellis from the men OF Fort
Pease, asking him TO come and get
them out of the country. The gar
risOn divided, thirteen men coming
out with Mr. Hubbell aud fourtees
remaining Ii was not known III any
purty could get through the Indian
lines, but it was considered prudent
to risk only half the garrison in at
tempting to communicate with the
settlements and military posts. A
few days before Hubbell came out
Mr.. Mccormack started TO come out
and brought nine men with Linn TO
guard wagon. They waited II week
for storm, aud started in the night
in the midst OF IA binding snowstorin.
The nine men came forty miles with
lay 10y until night and then go back
To the fort. They started for the
fort b I have not been heard from
since. and it is believed that they
were surrounded 10y Indians and all
killed Mr.. Mccormack and the man
with him got through TO Bozeman
with the wagon, lying by in the day
light aud travelling at night.
When the nine men who went out
with Mccormack did not return the
men at the garrison be c"me uneasy
and believed they had all been killed
MI Hubbell was surprised to find
Mccormack and the other man had
got through, and he now thinks the
lea OF going back To the fort and
gone into the settlements at some
other point.
Hubbell reports that after Me-
Cormack left the Indians became
very bold. rushing up quite close to
the walls OF the fort aud conilning
the men entirely within the stockade
The ammunition for the twelve
FOUNDER had given out, and the be-
seiged could drive the savages off
but II short distance with their rifles.
One man, Jesse, who saw two In
dams warming at fire, and evident
ly watching the fort. was so cnraged
that lie crawled ont Of the fort, and,
creeping up, shot one of the Indians
dead and wounded another, but his
temerily cost him his life, for before
he could get back iuto the stockad,.
he was headed of by other Indians,
driven into some timber, aud there
killed and scalped. The Indians next
morning called to the men in the
fort and said they had killed Jesse,
and the body was lying over in the
timber.
Mr.. Hubbell thinks the garrison at
Fort Pease can hold out until the