The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1877-03-02
4 FIGHTFOR LIE.
a White aEan siJlgte-handed Repulses TIA
Attack Of a LARGE Band of SFoffa

Il White aFan SiIlgle-handed Repulses the
Attack Of a Large Band Of Sioifr.
BY Mr.. Henry Tilley, of Ness county,
we learn the particulars of an Indian
fight which occurred about four weeks
ago, in what is known as the "Cone," at
at. the mouth of Sand creek. about sixty
five miles west of Ness post-office, in
which DIR. Tichenor killed four Sioux
Indians, and was himself wounded. The
doctor and man named Dickinson were
out ia that section of the country poison
ing wolves, and had built temporary
dug-out in which to store their skins and
provisions. A few days previous to the
fight Dickinson had taken their team
and gone into the settlement after
Bs%yisiens, leaving the doctor to run the
camp. The doctor was asleep in his arr
out on the morning of the third day of
Dickinson's departure, when he. was
Thinking the ind .,,.i..:...... zi.. aIs..rL ar.a
wolf, he took up his guu aud opened the
door, to be confronted by a man, and
that man was a Sioux brave, but at tIsAt
tiD1e it was so dark that he could dis
tinguish little more than the outlines.
He demanded his busines, when the brave
turned and fed and as the doctor step
ped outside to get Il shot at him he was
greeted with volley which drove him
back into the dug-out. Barricadihg his
door as best he could, he awaited day
light. In the meantime, the Indians.
numbering about forty, AS near as he
could tell, had moved further up the
creek; but with daylight, one of them
whom Tichenor thinks was the chief
from his dress came to the dug-out car
rying white rag, and in broken English
demanded his surrender. Tichener told
him there were three men in the dug
out, well armed and prepared to fight,
and refused to surrender The chief
commenced to threaten, and told the
doctor he would have his scalp. This
the doctor thought TO be a declaration of
war, and shot the red man dead in his
tracks, and at the very door of the dug
out. The entire band then rushed in,
but were driven back by several we'll
directed shots. The next maneuver bv
the assailants was an attempt TO smoke
him out by burning buffalo chips and the
woodwork of the dug-out. From his
position in the dug-out he could not see
the Indian who was perintending the
conhagration department, and knowing
that Ifs stop was not put TO it he was "a
goner," he made dash for the outside,
kicked the buffalo chips aside, and ex-
changed shots with the head-freman,
who was making tracks for his comrades !
killing him instantly, and received a
bullet through the lower part of his /
person. The man fell within five feet of
his dug-out door. Then commenced a !
long-l ange shooting match, in which the 1
doctor is confident he killed two more /.
and wounded one. This was kept up /
during the day, but toward nightfall
terrible snow and wind storm came up, /
driving the red men to the south and /
showing the brave man in Had it not /
been for this they would eveRtually have
got him, for this wound, though not
incapacitated him for fight
ing. He lay in bed three days, suffering
severely. At the expiration of sixteen
days the weather moderated, and he
started on foot for the settlements, reach
ingithem in safety, and bringing trophies
Of one of the most remarkable fights on
record. Though wounded but once, the
doctor received several bullet holes
through his clothing, and during his
stay picked forty bullets out
of the walls of the dug out.--Hays City
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