The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1877-04-06
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Details Of the Massacre By Sioux Of
..Muggins" Taylor and Two COM
rades on the Saltwater.

When COl. stanton, tntu ~ tHe Sio"
Agency, sent word to Fort Ellis that
1000 Sioux warriors were within 20
miles of the Crow Agency; that the
Crows had fed, and that but forty
white men remained to defend the
Agency, it was generally conceded and
| believed that the Sioux were intent on
the destruction Of the Agency and had
no other object in view. Under this
| impression, Gen. Brisbin dispatchedtwo
companies of cavaly to the front and
anxiously awaited the news of a fight.
But the cavalry arrived at the Agency,
made preparations for a vigorous de-
Tense, and encountered no foe. On the
Bird inst, however, the alert sentinels
discovered a solitary horseman riding
rapidly over the prairie, and in a few
minutes a white trapper named Hubble
rode into the stockade. He was wound
ed in a dozen places, and nearly ex-
hausted from loss Of blood and fatigue;
but after ''grubbing'' managed to re-
late his brief but sad story.
On the evening of the first of March
he, his partner John Cox, Jas. George
('Yankee Jim'), and Muggins Taylor,
camped on the open prairie at Still
water. Just at dark they heard the
dull thud of hundreds of horses feet,
and had barely time to grasp their
needle-guns, before they were attacked
by a large band Of mounted Sioux
bubble thinks there were at least five
hundred warriors). In the hands of an
experienced man a needle-gun can be
operated with astonishing rapidity, aud
Hubble and his comrades were nc tyros
in the use of that destructive weapon,
but they discharged only one volley be-
fore the Sioux bullets ''laid out" Taylor,
Cox and George, As his companions
fell, Hubble, inspired by desperation,
lost all semblance of fear; the Indians,
pressing tightly around him, had ap-
parently concluded to capture him
alive, for they fired no more shots. He
contrived to get another cartridge in
his rifle and tumbled an Indian from his
saddle, then leaping onto the horse of
the fallen warrior, and singing out
with a glance, the weakest portion of
the Gordon of savages who environed
him, he hurled his empty gun at the
nearest, and ga" bullets from his
''navy'' at others who e%ndeavored to
check his wild dash for life, and soon,
to his joy, gained the open prairie.
Momentarily Supplied at his bold
and unexpected movement, and the
deadly accuracy with which he had
discharged his revolver, the Sioux re-
tanned their fire until he was a couple
of hundred yards distant. Then the
simultaneous report of five hundred
rifles sent five hundred bullets after
MIN. He says the sensation felt as the
bullets whizzed by him was like the
breath of q cyclone, and the leaden
missives which lodged in his body, as
they penetrated his flesh, felt like balls
Of fire. He became almost uncon-
scious, but knew that his horse was
doing his best, and heard the fierce
tween them grew wider and wider.
No marrow escape" ever recorded,
either in fiction or fact, savors SO much
| of the miraculous as bubbles. None
Of his many wounds were dangerous,
and when he was SO informed by the
surgeon he remarked, with a grim
smile, They cost the Sioux a id sight
of cartridges, anyway"