Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-12-31


ing spared to make the refugees
previously reported on the advice OF
to defend their homes. but many are
anxious to enlist with the regulars II
further fighting should occur.
OMAHA, 81, Dee 80-Ths Bee
correspondent Wounded Knee creek
tslegraphs as Flows concerning yesier-
In the morniife as soon as the orf,inarY
military work of the day was done Maj
Whitesides determined upon disarniug
the Indians at once. and at 8
o'clock the camp OF Big Foot =
was surrounded by the Seventh. cavalry
aud scouts. The Indians were sitting in
a half circle. and four Ho;chkiss guns
were placed upon hill about 200 yards
distant. Every preparation was made.
not especially to fight. but to show the
Indians the futllity Of resistance.
They seemed to recognize this fact, aud
when Mai Whitesidss ordered them
to come up twenty at time an1 give up
their arms they came, but not with
their guns in sight. or the first twenty
but two displayed arm,. These they
gave up sulenlv, and observing the
futility Of that method OF procedure,
Maj. Whitsides ordered Il detachment Of
X and A troop on foot TO enter the tepees
aud search them. This work had hardly
been entered upon when
TWENTY DESPERATE INDIANS
turned upon the soldiers, who were
gathered closely about the tepees, and
INN edia tely a storm OF firing was poured
upon the military. 1t was as though the
order to search had been the signal. The
latter, not anticipating any such action,
had been gathered in very closely aud
the first firing was terribly disastrous
to them. The reply was immediate,
however, and IN an instant it seemed
that the spot in which the Indian camp
was set was q sunkep Vesuvius. The
soldiers, maddened at the siRht OF their
comrades, hardly awaited the COM
mand, and in moment the whole
front was sheet of fire, above
which smoke rolled obscuring the central
scene from view. Through this horrible
curtain the signal Indians could be seen ct
times flying before the fire, but after
the frs; discharge from the carbiues Of
the troopers there was but few of them
left. They
FELL on ALL SIDES
like grain in the course of a cythe. The
Indians and soldiers lay together, and
the wounded fought on the ground where
they fell. Toward the bluffs the few re-
m naming warriors fed, turning OCCASION
ally to fire, but now evil
IDENTITY caring more for escape
than battle. Only the wounded
Indians seemed possessed OF the courage
OF devils, and from the ground where
they had fallen they continued to fire
until their ammunition was gone or they
were killed by the soldiers. Both sides
forgot everything except loading and
firing of guns. 1t was only in the early
part of the ARRAY that hand-to
hand lighting was seen. Carbines
were used as clubs, sabres CLEANED, and
war clubs circled III the air and came
down like thunderbolts. but this only for
short time. The Indians could not
stand the storm from the sabres, they
had not hoped to. 1t was only stroke
of the life before death. The remnants
fed, and the battle became q hunt. 1t
was now tina.
THE ARTILLERY
was called into requisition. Before, the
fighting was so close that the guns
could not be trained without danger of
death to the soldiers. Now, with the
Indians flying 1t was easier to
reach them. The Calling and
Hotchkiss guns were trained and then
began heavy firing, which lasted
half an hour, with frequent heavy VOL
leys of musketry and cennons. 1t was
d war of determination now with the
troopers. 1t IVES difficult to restrain the
troops-tactics were almost abandoned.
About the only tactics was to kill, and
for several minutes the engagement thus
went on, until not live Indian was In
sight.
ORDERED TO THE BAD LANDS.
OMAHA, NEB., Dec. 30.-The Bees
special from Rose Bud Agency, S. D.,
says two troops of the Ninth Cavalry
ani three companies of the Eighth In
fantry have been prepared to
move at moments notice. Last
ni5ht orders came for them to
start ct once for the Bad Lands.
pickets at Rose Bud have seen Indians
With the looking glass a
scheme Of twenty young bucks to steal
horses and break for the Bad Lands was
discovered. The arrest of the frs: man
xr;a . ta1