Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-12-18


man few minutes the police suddenly
formed Gordon around Bull. gave signal
to the troops, levelled their Winchester
rifles at the sayages, and started on run.
| They succeeded in getting the old medi-
| cine-man on horse and moved Oh north
ward toward the cavalry.
TaE rToHr BEGUN.
The Indians were at first confused. and
did not open FIRE on the police at the out
set. else every one Of the officers would
have been killed. Very quickly, however.
under the leadership Of Blackbird. the son
Of Sitting Bull, the Sioux with a hIdeous
yell charged on the police. Three of the
police fell dead and several others were
so badly wounded that they have since
died.
Abou, this time detachment Of cavalry
rode UP at a Rallop aud opened a furious
fusillaae upon the charging savages, who
were Immediately stampeded and ran west
ward on the Grand river. Sitting Bull fell
of the first vOlley, the shot that killed him
having been fred by one of the police.
SITTING BULLS ATTENPT 70 ESCAPE.
As soon as he saw the Indians moving
toward him Bull made a desperate attempt
20 join them, but the police, obeying their
instructions 10 the letter, made a good In
dian OF hlm without delay. The police
then ran TO cover and the cavalry began
firing at the redskins with a Hotchkiss and
a Calling Gun, the sayages having retired
ont Of reach of the small arms.
There were seven Sioux killed. among
them Blackbird and CrOwfOOt. sons Of
Sitting Bull. Crowfoot was boy OF but
twelve years.
The number Of Indians who departed
hastily for the Bad Lands is about one
hundred and twenty. They are being fol-
lowed cautiously by the troops who do
not fancy getting pocketed in the hills,
where there are from three hundred TO five
hundred Ogallala bucks under the COM
inand OF Short Bnll and Crow Dog.
MAILING or THE WOMEN.
The women and children Of the dead
sayagos made last night hIdeous with their
walling. They are ia charge of the troops
and will be disposed Of a. Major HcLaugh-
lin directs
There are already evidences that the kill
ing Of Sitting Bull is likely TO settle the
war without further bloOdshed. Large
numbers Of the Indians are coming into
the agency protesting loyalty and offering
their services 10 bring in the fleeing hos
tiles. The acknowledged leaders Of the
Sioux Chief Gall and John Grass stand
firmly by the Government and express no
regret at the taking of Of Sitting Bull.
Bull and his sons caused good deal of ex-
element at the agency. There Is great
deal Of bitterness among the squaws of the
Indian policemen, who charge that they
were sacrificed % save Uncle Sans pale
face soldiers These Indian women will
keep up death-songs for weeks, cutting of
their hair, chopping pieces from Their fin
gers, and slasmng their bodies fearfully.
I'm some other quarters the cavalry are
blamed for permitting the Indian police TO
ride of 80 far in advance, when if the two
bodies had come upon the hostile Indians
together the lat or would have been over
whelmed and Sitting Bull taken into Gus
tOdy without resistance.
The troops have boen constantly on the
move for two weeks. They are scattered
all over the Indian country in small de-
tachments of no more than fifty men each.
A strong body of soldiers cannot be found
at any point, and as they are many miles
apart, without telegraphlc facilities for
communication, hundred well-armed
young bucks, bent on ayenging the death
of their old chief and medicine-man, could
easily raise considerable havoc with Uncle
SANS men before being finally rounded up.