Ashtabula telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1874-1880, 1877-09-21

! - - ledVihg papS ana squaWs De-
out"
At the end of FIVE minutes the
Indians were heard advancing. and
presently their conversation couId
be plainly made out. All were
mounted but seemed in no hurry
Some rode around the head of the
ravine, and others were heard cross
ing it lower down. Huddled to-
gether in the darkness was the seven
white men, each one holding his
breath, and each horse trembling
with excitement.
'We'll be discovered sooner or
later, and we'd better git in the first
blow, whispered Dan. ''Draw your
revolvers, ride three abreast, and Pll
lead"
He waited a minute, for the men
to make ready, and then he raised
the widest yell ever heard by Indian
or white man. Its ferceness fairly
appalled, his companions tor an in
stant, but as his mustang sprang
forward they spurred after. Charg-
ing straight down the ravine, with
that scream echoing from bank to
bank, they had gone nearly half a
mile before the surprised Indians
comprehended the situation and
made pursuit. The ravine bent and
turned for miles, and while some of
the Indians followed down it, others
rode along the banks, firing at ran
dom and screaming in their rage.
"a mile further down." called Lit
tie Dan, ga trail crosses the ditch.
Wen turn to the right and make
for the Injun village. If you shoot
straight, we'll give these devils a
chance to attend a dozen funerals at
home"
Not shot had thus far been fred
by the party. Two or three mount
ed Indians had been encountered, sit
ting on their horses, and wondering
oyer the alarm, but they had been
knocked down and leaped over like
so many toys. The little band were
quarter of mile head of pursuit
when they whirled to the right, dash
ed up the bank and made for the
hundred camp fires a mile away.
"Six abreast, now, follow me,
shouted the dwarf. 81 want to
charge right through the centre of
the village, and Pll kill as many as
all of you can wound. Fire at ev-
erything on legs, and keep yelling
like devils"
Had they kept on down the "a
vine, it would simply have been a
question of speed between horses,
with odds in favor of the white men.
Little Dan had doubled back on
their track, instead of running away,
and was headed for a big village
alive with excitement. The Indians
kept along the ravine, not having
yet caught sight of the pursued, but
still knowing that they were chasing
white men.
'TNow raise a yell" shouted Dan
as the band neared the village
"raise the worst yell you can, and
don't forgit to keep shooting"
His peculir scream was again sent
| forth, and the other six riders hur
rahed at the top of their voices
Dan and his mustang were a wonder.
full sight. The animal forged ahead
at a steady gait, his ears laid back
and his mouth wide open, and be
swerved aside for nothing. H,
| jumped a blazing fire, ran directly
over a lodge, picked boy mp in his
teeth and flung him aside, and every
instant uttering a neigh which wa.
almost a roar of rage.
A revolver in either hand, Littl,
:. Ian swung himself from side t,
side, blowinga warriors brains out
on the right, and then sending a buI
let through the head of an old MAJ
or squaw on the left. Pop, pop,
went his revolvers, and above the
awful din created in the surprised
and frightened camp could be hearC
his wild yells and tigerish neighs o
his mustang. The six fired as they
could, sweeping trail of death for
ty feet wide through the village
Hardly a shot was fired in return
but one of the few sent after then
struck and mortally wounded
bronze-faced, grizzly haired veteran
who was three times hit at Antie
tam. He fell forward, cluug to hi
horse, and when the band halted OF
the prairie beyond the village he fel
to the ground.
"In three minutes we shall hav,
two hundred bowling fends afte
us, said Little Dan, as he dismount
ed. 'This man is fatally wounded
and he'll be dead in half an hour
We can't take him along and W
can't stop here.
While he was speaking he wa
busy searching the pockets of the un
fortunate rider. Watch, money
photographs of loved. ones, revolve
and sabre were taken and distribut
ed among the party in thirty seconds
and m en- the dwarf bent down an,
asked: -,
aComl.ade, can you speak?"
81 un,ierstand-it's all right,
was the whispered reply.
"Here's your rife" " said Dan. q
the Indians rnn upon you shoe
yourself; if they don't find you fo
an hour von'Il be dead. Goo,
bye. God forgive you and US, bu
it's the only way"
Leaping to the back of his n mus
tang, he turned for the " hlt
Horse Hills" just as 4 terrible wal
of sorrow, mingled with a clY 10
vengence, rose on the cool night al
from the village. The horses b a,
} not gaHoped a mile before theI
were pulled up. The band was safe
/ for a moment, and each heart was
heavy at the thought of the dying
comrade among the trampled flow.
ers. Each head was bent that wav
and each ear heard the rush of In
dams in that direction. They rod,
rs straight for the dying man, as il
it had been broad nOon-day. A sud
! den shout proved that thev had