The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-19
THE WARRIORS END.
Graphic Story of the Death of
Sitting Bull.
HIS FOLLOWERS WILL RETURN
Runaors Of Hostile Camps and Fighting
Moving Toward the BAD Lands
of the Missouri.

sr. PAUL, Dec. is.-The correspondent of
the Pioneer Press at Fort Yates, n. D., was
one OF the cavalry officers who participated
IN the fight in which Sitting Bull met his
death. He teIegraphed that paper tonight
long and detailed account of the fight
and the incidents leading up to it.
Bull Head, who was in charge of the In
dlan police, was bitter enemy of Sitting
bun. When the courier from the police
came back on the road and notified the
cavalry OF the fight, the latter started for
ward on the gallop. The hostiles were in
the timber and were firing on the police,
VINO defended themselves from Sitting
Bulls house.
few shells from Hotchkiss gun sent
the redskins hurrying up the river out of
range. The policemen formed in line and
presented fine appearance as they re-
ceived the soldiers, but the spectacle a few
yards behind them was horrible in the ex-
IRENE. Eight corpses lay about on the
ground riddled with bullets and mutilated.
Sitting Bull was on his back and his face
hardly recognizable, SO shot up and bat
tered was 1T. The correspondent thinks Il
number of the hostiles who escaped were
badly wounded.
Police entered the camp early in the
morning, and proceeded quickly TO Bulls
house and surrounded it, Several went
inside and arrested Sitting Bull. When
he gave the alarm by yelling several of his
iieutenants repeated it, and the fight then
began. The police stood their ground he
rolcally, in spite of the tremendous odds
against them
Catch-the-Bear and several other hostiles
rushed into the house and began firing at
the police. Bull Head was shot in the leg.
He whirled and put bullet into Sitting
Bulls head, and ut the same moment Red
Tomahawk shot Sitting Bull in the
stomach.
Part Of the hostiles retreated to a stable
hundred yards off and the policemen
pursued and drove them out The police
men also got possession of the house and
took IN their dead and wounded. The
hostiles then lied back into the woods,
and the fight was kept up until the cavalry
drove them off.
RAPID CRY, :. d., Dec. 1S.-M H. Day,
who has just returned from a scouting ex-
petition, says that on Monday, December
s, his men approached the camp of the
hostiles 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 lost.
PINE RIDGE, Dec lS.-The officers counted
up the returned dancers today, finding
1,024, and issued rations to them 1t is be-
lieved that the hostiles in the Bad Lands
number 500. The troops are closing in on
them
PIERRE, S. d.. Dec. 1s.-An Indian scout
has arrived at Fort Bennett bringing word
that Sitting Bulls followers, who escaped
when their chief was killed, had camped
the night before at the mouth of Turner
creek, a tributary of the Moreau river, on
their way to the Bad Lands Colonel Mer-
riam, in command of the Seventh regi-
ment, has started to intercept the hostiles.
A squwman in today says Sitting Bulls
men, with stragglers picked up amounting
in all to about 800 warriors, were seen to-
day going south, under the leadership of
old Rain-in-the-Face There is little doubt
that they were bound for the Bad Lands.
DENVER, Dec. ls.--A special from the
Sixth cavalry, on the Cheyenne river, via
Rapid City, says: Major Perry's command
was joined early this morning by Scout
Gus Craven, who reported that near
Smithville a large number of Indians had
been seen, and a number of shots were ex-
were crossing Spring creek they and their
escort were attacked by forty Indians and
over 100 shots exchanged. One soldier was
wounded, and another shot through the
hat. A troop Of Captain Wells cavalry
came to the rescue, and the Indians ran
away. Craven reports having seen sixty
three tepees, which contained 100 Indians,
near the mouth of Spring creek.
/, froc
but the hostiles again retired to the Bad
Lands. General Carr has sent armed
PARTIES to guard the ranch where the
Indian was killed yesterday. He was n
nephew of Kicking Bear. Yesterday Gen
eral Carr sent troop of cavalry up into
the Bad Lands to watch any movement of
the hostiles. Signals were established by
the troops and the generals camp by three
RELAYS, and should the troops be attacked
they were to be reinforced from here
They reported about seventy tepees in the
Indians stronghold, and that they are to-
tally inaccessible. The only known outlet
for these Indians is q trail which goes up the
Cottonwood, across the road from Rapid
creek to Wounded Knee. This pass will
be closed tomorrow by large body of the
Sixth infantry.
AUSTIN. Tex, Dec 1s.--The governor has
information from the border that the
kiowas and Comanches are engaged IN
a smoke dance, and the settlers are be-
coming alarmed. The governor ordered
arms and ammunition sent 10 the settlers
| in Greer county.
ST.. PAUL. Dec 1S.-A Pioneer Press special
from Fort Yates says: Bullhead, lieutenant
! of the Indian police who lead in the capture
| of Sitting Bun, died this evening. Reports
nj the agency tonight indicate that the
fugitives from Sitting Bulls camp are pre-
| pairing to return to their abandoned homes.