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

that shot DDSle?n He was told by
more exper euced man not 10 venture
here, 40 from the rep 'rt OF their guns
they must be experienced rflemen.
At that instant lie discovered an
Indian, and while ia the act OF
raising his piece wAs shot through the
ueart aud expired h ebert Armstrong
tXclaimtd: "D--n the red devil that
Billed McCBslln, where is he2n He
was warned not to venture there, IA
he would share the same fate Arm
strong discovered an Indian, and was
Just bringing his gun up when he vas
Hired AZ, the ball cutting part Of the
stock OF his gun off and lodged agaiual
the barrel During this time
the Indians had formed
complete circle around III,
taxing shelter behind the points Of
rocks, scattering trees and bushes. The
| firing now BEGAN general from all
quarters. Finding our position too
much exposed, We made rush fur The
| thicket before spoken Of, which we
| fortunately resChrd without injury
from their heavy fire. The first thing
| necessary after reaching our new poSi-
! ton was 10 dislodge the CaddO riff men
| from under ihe bank OF the creek who
/
! Tnis we soon succetded ia doing by
shooting most OF them through the
| head, a. we had the advantage OF see.
! Ing hem without their seeing us.
The road We had wisely cut around
the thirhrt the nivht previous now
Z We US an advantageous situation
over that Of the enemy, as We had &
fair View OF them IN the prairie while
we we've entirely hid rom ths sight OF
the Indians They now sui
cred sever,ly from our rifles,
| lo.ing four OF five men A
every discharge. We would BAN e
their shots by moving six or eight ieet
she nome Z we had tiFed. leaving the
| smnke Of our guns ss = mark for them
20 shoot Mt. They would put twenty
bslls within the space OF u squaTe fOit
where they had seen the smoke. lu
this manner We fought them for tWO
hours with the satisfaction OF aeeing
many red devil bite the dust, white
we only bad one man wounded,
JAmes GoTyell, who was shot
through the arm, the ball lodg
ing In his eide, hrBt cut
ding away bush, which prevented II
from penetrating deep enough 10 &c
any serious injury. They now diseov
eyed that we we're not TO be dislOdgi q
from our hidipg-plsce, aud, - they
mad sufiered a heavy Tors wiihou
hnrming US, they determined 10 resort
a. strategem by putting IRE 10 the dfS
gFass In the prsirie, for the double pur
. ee Of routing US from our snug pol
non and, under cover Of the smoke
10 carry away TIA ir dead which hpc
fallen near us. The wind was nor
} hiowinR from the wet aud hey PLACED
the fire IA thai quarter where IL burn
down all tins grass 10 the creek ant
, then pore If TO the right and left, ltRv
iog around our poaltl0n space OF abou
Eve acres that wa untouched by tn
/ | fire. Under cover Of this smoke the,
.urceeded In carry Ing of q portion q
! their dead and wounded. Ia III
meantime we we're busily engages
In Rrr.ping hwsy this dry RTas
aud leaves from orr wounded men an'
+ bsggsRe 70 prevent the hfe from pasf
+ ing over IT., and likewise in pulling u
1 rncka and bushrs 70 answer the puf
: pose Of breastwoTk
: Fin ing that they had failed il
J routing us by the ARE ~ they had al
! ueipsted. they again occupied 10
!. eocks, trees and bushes 10 the prairie
. and commenced another furious Attael
r witch they kept up 7 acme Tins
Z when the wind suddenly shifted TO 10
o north and blew very hard, "a mortimer.
, We nov discovered our dangerous 81
) uafi0n should the Indians succeed Il
, put'ing fire 70 the small spot Whlc
We occupied, and kept q kfricf wEtc
2 al around The Two servant boy
d charles aud Gonzales, were employe
> ~ eeraping away the dry grass an
= leaves from around the baggage an
d pulling up rocks aud placing theT