Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-02-10

around the wounded men The rest
~ Us were warmly engaged with the
enemy. The point from which the
wind now blew being "a
vorahlc 10 fro our position,
one ~ tho Indians succeeded In crawl
ing down q q creek aud putting ere TO
the grass that hal not yet been burnt
but before he could retreat back to his
party he was killed by Robert ARM
strong Al this fearful moment we
Saw no chance Of escape. The Are was
moving rapidly towards III, impelled
by a strong wind, and the flamea were
leRping high In the air. What was to
be don't? We must either be burned
up alive or rush into the open prairie
to be shot down by the yelling de-
mona.
This encouraged the Indians, and to
make our cAsr more distressing they
rent the mir with their hideous shouts
and yells, ~ the same time firing
about twenty volleys minute into
our covert This gR4 terrible 10 think
Of What could we du2 Az soon Rs
the smoke bid us from their view we
huddled together and held q hurried
cDn -ultatDn as to what was beat TO be
done. Our greatest fear was that they
might charge us under cover Of the
smuke, a. we could make but
one eif-cuA fire. The sparks
were fi,ipg about 20 thick
that no man ODuld open his powder
horn withou' RUM ing the risk Of being
| blown np. However, we finally came
10 the determination, had they charged
| us 10 give them one Are, place our
backs together, draw our knives and
| fight them To the bitter END Oar next
fear WAS, should they not charge us
and we retain our present position, we
must he burned up II was then
decided that each man shOuld take
care OF himself aA best he could
like the old pr0yerb, EVERY man
fur himself aud the Indians for alp
until the fire arrived Rt the ring
around our baggage and wounded
men, and there IL should be smolhersd
With bDffilO robes, bear skips, deer
skins and blankets, which, after 4
hard hZht, We succeeded In doing
Our thiGket being 40 much burnt and
tcorohed that 1t Afforded Us little or nc
rheltor We all got into the ring that
WIS made around our wounded
men aud baggage, and commenced
building our breastworks higher
with the loose rocks from the
inside and dirt dug Up with our knives
and sticks.
During the last fire the Indians had
succeeded ia removing ali their killed
snd wounded which lay near US.
IL wsB noW sundOwn, sud wa had
been warmly engaged with the Ia
dians since sunrise, period OF thir
teen hours, aud they seeing US stil
alive and ready for fight drew Off a
a distance OF 300 yards and encampef
for the night with their dead anC
wounded
Our party now commenced 10 worl
In raising our fertilization higher. ant
I succeeded IN getting II breisi-hlgh bj
Z 10 p. III. We nov filled all of our YES
I sells and Hkins with water, eXpeciini
, another attack the next morning w
could distinctly hear the Indians neal
= ~ all night crying and wRiling owe
their dead, which iatheir custom, AM
= the next morning az daylight the,
3 snpt 4 MORALLY wounded chief,
: being alsO custom 10 shoot an,
Of their Tube that are MORTAL
! wounded. After that they Get out wit
= their dead and wounded 10 a mountain
? about a mile distant, where they dc
, p alted their dead IN 4 cave on th
: south side Of II. Az 8 o'clock In tn
!, morning two OF cur party, jess
, Wallace and james Bowie. went on
, from the fertilization 10 the eneAmI
: ment where the Indians had lain III
! night previous aud counted forty-eigh
b bloody spots On the grass where tn
b dead and wounded had been wins
;, As near as we could judR
4 their loss must have been fort
4 killed and thirty wounded. Flndin
d Ourselves considerably cut up, havin
D one man, Thomas hcCaalin, killet