Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1885-01-31

head. Capt. Miller, of the Fourth Ar
tillery, vas on the night of the line
Thicn was deployed for the attack; and
Llent. q. Z. EaRan on the left.
Inis arrangement was TO be the order
OF battle, and the right Of our lin,
snonld unite with that Of Col. Mason
VINO had, on the night of the I4th
marched over the rocks and taken :
| position within few hundred Yards OF
jacks cave. This vas designed to en-
close tue A0docs and prevent their e.
cape into the interior of the lava beds
At toe proper time | will tell why this
Jailed OF execution, and prove that Ma.
SOD was aDlnstly oensured for this
failure by General GiIlem in his officiaI
/ report.
The Warm Spring Indians bad come
the evening before the attack, and were
andef Donald Mckay. I have heard
thai Douald proposed that his men
should advance and lie in ambush the
night OF his arrival, the troops to move
the next day. The Modocs would come
out 10 meet them, when the Warm
| 5prinR Indians would kill many OF
/ them. Bot q stFatagem which might
have done some good VAS not executed
Advancing in skIrmish line to the at
tack. the men we're much separated ssd
the line broken. Soon the crack of a
ride was heard. puff of smoke was
seen AND bullet whistled over us-oth-
ers followed. The sounds emitted by
these were many, as Henry rifles, car.
binos, maskets and common bunting
guns, Each emitted a sound pecuiiar
to itself. The Indian Are Was returped
| By our men. After each shot by a No
doc, be would hide among the rocks.
The first incident that occurred, and
one that might create q smile among
members Of the press. was the sight OF
Mckay Of the Bailstin and Fox of the
| New York Herald, each with a musket
! assisted Mac to pass deep ohasm with
his gun; but as the fire was getting
warm and my duty called me away.
saw no more OF the knight of the quill.
He told me vOnderful tales of his hsv.
ing taken refuge bshind sage bush
near q soldier, and the bullets coming
near and nearer, until he thought the
better part Of valor was discretion: -
and, the Bulletin having no one to fill
his plsce, be Was doing that paper an
injustice by exposing his life-and left
for the rear.
Mr.. Fox advanced until he became IA
tigned, and when | saw him he was sit
ting on rock With his gun on his knees,
His exertion had exhausted his breath,
and he concluded, be afterward said
that he was damned fool TO expoFe bis
life 10 Indian bullets. Now these gen.
,letnen we're as brave as the balance of
Us, and. had duty called them to face
death, they would have done so: bat
when a man hears she vhistlinR of bul
lets about his cara and has no business
there, he 10 fool TO remain.
Col. Green, wishing to have the To-
dians driven from a certain point, re-
quested me to take the order to Miller.
The latter was about eighty yards away,
and the intervening ground exposed to
the tire of the Indians. Attended by a
man named Dooley, started, when The
dodocs opened IRE on rs and shot him
through the arm. We got within hailine
distance and the order vas given. We
took refuge under slight hill, and
thoaght We were sase; but, the balls con.
tinuing TO whiz around as, convinced us
that we were not, and We had to hug
the ground closely. Kilpeck, of the ar
tillery, came TO me with a wound on the
bead and another In the arm. Then
MoAanus, an old soldier who had gone
IN advance OF the line, was shot through
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shot Continnino dow,, ths linz I Tcsma
| ~ : hreak In ths lava hada This VAS
an onan anac, fiftv var5s u,aa and ar.
tended mn ons hnnS red yarris' Eacan
| was an the sonth side and undar coysr
| When I cams 10 th;s onsnin0 and Uas
ahs.nt 20 cyass tha man calisS to ma moi
to a. a.. AZ the Indiana wonld shoot ma
| Iookiue no this rayine. / saw AT he
haad ona hundred yards avay a f.w
stones throvo mn on \ Isdo~. tvo side by
sids ana one on ton. thronoh which the
| gnns vsy,s ne,ntsd and hehind which
are iysno TIE Ind,sns VINO baa Wounded
Esvan For a moment ths sense of
daroer and tha, seuse OF humanity con.
tended. hot the thonobt thai the officey
MIGHT die without ns.sistancs ,riumphed
| and, oassins forty yards below the posi.
finn. that the range q. their guns sni,ht
be increased and thereby Iessenine The
chance Of their hitting ne. / ran rapidly
scrcss th,s onen snsoe. calling On the
men 20 cover me Win their ire. lie
| Noaocs. ave in number. opsned ON me.
ana. aa I expeosed. the halls struck
| behind me and uaesed over INV head,
| The whistlins OF the balls was very
| distiacs. Ths course taken by me
hrnnsh, ma "a a uoint halow Easan ana
farty Yards avay- For ,his distance /
fa,..sl theiy Ara. had thev eontinuea. bu,
| shes caassa urehahl, hecanse ran in 4
rix.xas u,aneer. and would oceasiouAlly
| f,il ~ tbe gronnd 20 divert their Al %
| me oanntlet wns run In fun view OF
ths Commend ana when i reached a