Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-12-26

within a radius of fifty feet.
SITTING BULLS BODY
showed three bullet holes and his face had
been fearfully mutilated with knives and
the bones crushed in with blows from the
stock of a rifle which lay beside him. On
taking possession of the camp the police
were found to be almost entirely out of
ammunition, only having ten rounds be-
tween them, though they went into the
fight with 900 rounds. Had the troops
been half an hour later every policeman
would have been killed. Equipped with a
fresh supply of ammunition the police i'm
mediately went to workto drive the In
dams hiding in the brush back to a re-
spectful distance, while the troops busted
themselves demolishing the ghost ring
where the famous ghost dances were per-
formed and searching the tepees for pris- |
oners. So hasty was the flight of the In. |
dians that women. children and property
were left behind. In one of Sitting Bulbs
log houses were found his two wives and
eight or ten children, wailing bitterly. |
The two wives were sitting on a bed and
so siren uOusly objected to moving as to
excite suspicion that they were concealing |
something under the bed. An investiga-
ton revealed " men poorly disguised as
squaws in hiding under the bed. They |
were Looking Horses nephew of Sitting
Bull, and Silas, son of Little Assinaboine.
They were taken prisoners.
While the search of the camp was being
made some friendly Indians drove in for
protection. Their team was Immediately
pressed into service to transport the body
of Sitting Bull and the dead police to this
post.
AS soon as the surgeon had dressed Bull
Heads wounds from his lips was related
THE DRY OF H FIGHT.
Although suffering terribly, his face was
calm n unruffled, and when l spoke of
Sitting Bulls death, a triumphant smile
lit up his face as he said, yves. l killed
him." Though weak almost to death,
Bull Head was eager to tell the story of
the fight as we'll as his strength would
permit. The police, so Bull Head said,
carried out their orders to the letter. When
the first light appeared forty-one police
men, Bull Head commanding, were con-
cealed in the brush fifty feet from Bulls
house. Bull Head, Shave Head and eight
others, quietly and unnoticed Slipped into
BULBS house and seized him in bed, just as
he was grasping a handsome revolver CIV
en- him by Mrs. Weldon, the Brooklyn
woman who has figured so prominently in
BULBS affairs. This revolver Red Toma-
hawk wrenched from him. Bull Head
tried to induce Sitting Bull to go quietly
and he promised to do so, but was no soon
er outside than he gave a yell which
brought Catch-the. Bear to the rescue, who
yelled for the hostiles to bring their guns,
and almost instantly the entire camp was
aroused. Catch-the-be bear fired on Bull
Head, striking him in the leg above the
knee. Like lightning Bull Head turned
and put
A BULLET THROUGH SITTING BULLS READ
while Red Tomahawk simultaneously shot
him through the body with the revolver he
had just taken from him. The police rush.
ing to the defense of Bull Head and the
} hostiles to avenge Sitting Bulls death, met
over the dead body of the chief and a des-
pcrate hand to hand encounter ensued,
lasting about three minutes and costing a
dozen lives. The police finally fortified
themselves in Bulls house and the hostiles
in the stable, 100 feet away. The police
soon drove the enemy from tho stable and
compelled them to fight from the brush,
but the hostiles had the police surrounded
and with all apparently limitless supply of
ammunition, kept them in a state of siege
till our troops arrived, not a minute too
early to relieve them.
The bravery, carnage and loyalty dis.
played by the police in this matter should
forever protect them from the aspersions
which have been cast upon their fidelity
and give the lie to the rumors that the
agent had lost control of them.
Captain Fechet, having loaded the
wounded police into the ambulance and
the dead police and Sitting Bulls body on
a wagon, and knowing it would be very
hazardous to attempt to hold the camp
with the force he had, withdrew and fell
back eighteen miles to Oak creek, where
he was Joined by Colonel Drum and com.
panies Fl and G, 18th infantry. Shortly
after midnight Monday night
H HOsTILES CAME BACK.
Capt. Fechet left the women and chill
dren in the camp unmolested and assured
them that Sitting Bull was the only one he
wanted and that they might tell the others
they could return and would be unframed.
The hostiles did return before we we're
out of sight, but 1t was only to gather their
women and ponies and fee
Col. Drum decided to withdraw to the
post and await developments. Shave Head
died at o'clock this morning. He, with the
other dead police, will be buried with full
military hOnOrs Tomorrow.
A courier just in o'clock a. m.-re-
ports the hostiles in camp on Grand river
thirty miles west of Bulls camp. The loss
to the hostiles in Mondays fight was much
larger than above reported. From fifteen
to twenty were killed and several
wounded. Strike the Kill is badly
wounded. Information has been sent to
Maj. Carroll OF the present location of the
hostiles. Carroll is only about thirty