The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-12-27
shot through the abdomen,

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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
been half all hour later every policeman
would have been killed. Equipped with a
fresh supply of ammunition the police i'm
mediately went to. work to 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.
dams that women. children and property
were left behind. In one of Sitting Bulls
log houses were found his two wives and
eight or ten children, wailing bitterly.
The two wives were sitting On a bed and
so ~strenuously objected to moving as to
excite suspicion that they were concealing
something under the bed. An investiga-
ton revealed two men poorly disguised as
squaWs in hiding under the bed. They
were Looking Horse, a 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 oon as the surgeon had dressed Bull
Heads wounds from his lips was related
THE ToR OF TIE FIGHT.
Although suffering terribly, his face was
calm and unrutlied, and when / spoke of
Sitting BULBS death, a triumphant smile
lit up his face as he said, "yes, ] killed
him." Though weak almost to death.
Bull Head was eager to tell the story of
the fight as well as his strength would
permit. The police, so Bull Head said,
carried out their orders to the letter. When
the first light appeared forty-onc 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
IN who has figured so prominently in
Bulbs affairs. This revolver Red TOma-
hawk wrenched from him. Bull Head
tried to induce Sitting Bull to 90 quietly
and he promised to do so. but was no soon
er outside than he gave a yell which
brought Catch-thc- Bear to the rescue, who
yelled for the hostiles to bring their guns,
and almost instantly the e0tire camp was
aroused. Catch-the-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 HEAL
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-
perate hand to hand encounter ensutd,
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 the stable and
compelled them to fight from the brush,
but the hostiles had the police surrounded
and with an 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
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 II and G, 18th infantry. Shortly
after midnight Monday night
THE 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 were
out of sight, but 1T vas only to gather their
women and ponies and flee.
Col. Drum decided to withdraw to the
post and await developments. Shave Head
died at I o'clock this morning. He, with the
other dead police, will be buried with full
military honors tomorrow.
A courier just in--4 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 til"
h~Ostiles. Carroll is only about thirty
miles from them with two fresh troops of
the LIST cavalry. Col. ConrOd with three
companies, 22d infantry, is patroIing the
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