Los Angeles herald., 1890-12-19
Bulls Slayer Dies of
His Wounds.
"A Graphic Account Of the he
cent Battle.
The Defeated HOstiles Heading for
the Bad Lands.
Bands of the Fugitives Seen at Several
Points-Several More Skirmishes
Take Place.
Associated Press Dispatches.

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ST. PAUL, Dec. 1S.--A Pioneer-Press
special from Fort Yates, says Bull
Head, lieutenant of the Indian police,
who led in the capture OF Sitting Bull, !,
died this evening. Reports at the
agency tonight indicate that the fugi-
tives from Sitting Bulls camp are pre-
pairing to return to their abandoned
homes.
The correspondent of the Pioneer
Press at Fort Yates was one of the cav
airy officers who participated in the fight
in which Sitting Bull met his death.
He telegraphed that paper tonight a
long and detailed account OF the fight
and incidents leading up to it. Bull
Head, who was in charge OF the Indian
police, was a bitter enemy of Sitting
Bull. When the courier from the po-
lice came back on the road and gifted
the cavalry of the fight, the latter
started forward on gallop. The hos
tiles were in the timber, and were firing
on the police, who defended themselves
from Sitting Bulls house. A few shells
from the Hotchkiss gun sent the red
skins ,hurrying up the river out OF range.
The policemen formed in a line and
presented a fine appearance as they re
ceived the soldiers, but the spectacle
few yards behind them was horrible in
the extreme. Eight corpses lay about
on the ground, riddled with bullets and
mutilated. Sitting Bull was on his
back, and his face was hardly recogniza-
BILE, so shot up and battered was it. The
correspondent thinks number of the
hostiles who escaped were badly
wounded.
PARTICULARS OF THE FIGHT.
The police entered the camp early in
the morning, proceeded quietly to Bulls
house and surrounded it. Several went
inside and arrested Sitting Bull, when
he gave the alarm by yelling. Several
OF his lieutenants reported it, and the
fighting then egan. The police stood
their ground heroically in spite of the
tremendous odds against them.
Catch-the-Bear and several other hos
tiles rushed into the house and began
in the leg. He whirled and put bullet
into Sitting BULBS head, and at the same
moment Red Tomahawk shot Sitting
Bull in the stomach. Part of the hos
tiles retreated to a stable hundred
yards off, and the policemen pursued
and drove them out. The policemen
also got possession of the house, and
took in their dead and wounded. The
hostiles then fell back into the wood,
and the fight was kept up until the
cavalry drove them off.
THE FUGIrIvEs' MOVEMENTS.
PIERRE, S. d., Dec. 1S.-An Indian
scout has arrived at Fort Bennett, bring
ing word that Sitting Bulls followers
who escaped when their chief was
killed, had camped the night before at
Turner creek, near the Moreau river,
being on their way to the Bad Lands.
Col. Merriams command of the Seventh
regiment, has started to intercept the
hostiles.
Stockmen in today, say Sitting Bulls
men with stragglers picked up, amount
ing in all to about 800 warriors, were
seen today going south under the leader
ship of old Rain-in-the-Face There is
little doubt that they were bound for
the Bad Lands.
NJ RETURNED DANCERS.
PINE RIDGE, S. D., Dec. 1S.-The Of
ficers counted up the returned dancers
today, finding 1926, and issued rations to
them. 1t is believed the hostiles in the
Bad Lands number 500. The troops are
closing in on them.
AN EXCHANGE OF SHOTS.
RAPID CRY, S. d., Dec. Ism. M.
Day, who has just returned from a
scouting expedition, says on Monday
eighteen men approached camp of
hosties on the mesa but were driven
back across the, river by the Indians,
who came out seemingly anxious for a
fight. Several shots were exchanged,
but no lives were lost.
A PARTY OF WHITES BEsIEGED.
DENVER. Dec. 1S.-A special from
Cheyenne river. via Rapid City, says: A
courier just in has aroused the camp.
He states that party OF fifteen men are
besieged fifty miles from here'on Spring
creek, at Daly's ranch. The Indians
have made three attempts to fire the
ranch house, one being nearly success
Hon. III. M. Day, aide-de-camp to the
governor of the state. The courier who
brings the news had made break
viz AhOiaio, hiihSo UOtii Vi hlo
pistols right and left. One OF their bull
lets penetrated his overcoat. He rode
by circuitous route to the camp.
General Carr has sent Major Upper
with 100 men to the rescue.
MORE sKIRMIsHING REPORTED.
A special from the Sixth cavalry, on
Cheyenne river, via Rapid City, says:
Major Perry's command joined us early
this morning, and scout, Gus Craven,
that near Smithville large
number of Indians were seen in small
creek in the brakes. A number of shots
were exchanged. While some govern
ment wagons were crossing Spring
creek, they and their escort were at
tackled by forty Indians, and over 100
shots were exchanged. One soldier
was wounded. Another was shot
through the hat. Captain Wells troop
of cavalry came to the rescue. The In
dians ran away. Craven reports having
seen sixty-three tepees which contained
100 Indians, camped near the mouth of
Spring creek. Early this morning
troops were sent out, but the hostiles