Daily Yellowstone journal., 1890-12-20

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c,'er could BE- found, VIII u. the troops
pressed forward TO relieve the police.
No time was lost, vet it was Two hours
from the time the troops opened fire
before Lieut.. Slocum led his skir mish.
er- into Bulls camp. As he did 10
Red Tomahawk, the ranking officer
OF the police who survived, drew his
police up In line, end salooting. turned
them over t. him. The scene In the
camp wss a terrible one. Directly in
front Of BulI's camp lay
EIGHT DEAD HosTILEs,
the worst men In the tribe. They
were Sitti q Bull, Crowfoot, Sitting
Bulls son. Black Bird Catch the Bear,
Spotted Horn Bull, Brave Thunder,
Little Assinaboine, Sitting Bull's
adopted brother, snd Chese Wounded.
Little Assinsboine's son.
In Sitting Bulls house lay four deed
police. Little Eagle. Hawk Van.
Broken Arm and Afraid Of Soldie :.
With the dead police were Bull II ID
and Shave Head. Bul Heal was suf.s
fering from three wound. One bu llet
sha'lered the thigh Just above the
knee, smother shattered the left 'or,-
arm and tn third struck h lower
rib. Shave Head wa hot thr ugh
the abdomen.
In Bulls stable, 100 'eet 'wsv, lay
smother policeman, Alex Middle. shot
i'm the ankle.
SITTING BULLS BODY
showed three bullet holes and hi. face
had been fea-iully mntilsied and the
bones crushed in. On taking posses
sion Of the camp the police were found
almost ou' Of AMMUNITION, having
only ten roupds between them. tho
they went into the fight with 800.
Had the troops been half an boar later
every policeman would have been
killed.
In one Of Bulls shacks were found
his two wives and eight or ten child.
ren. The squaws were sitting on .
bed under which wss two men, poorly
disguised ~ squaws. They were
Looking Hor 'e, nephew OF Bull. and
Silas, son Of Little Assinsboine. They
were taeen prisoners.
AZ soon pc the surgeon bad dressed
Bull Hesd'- wound. he related the
THE STORY OF THE FIGHT.
Although suffering terribly, q tn
umpban. smile III up his face 20 be
said, eyes 1 killed Sitting Bull" Ths
police, he said carried out their orders
to the letter. When the first light sp-
psared, Al policemen, Bull Head COM
maudipg. were concealed In the bruth
SO feet from Bulls house. Bull Heal,
Shave Head aud eigh: Others quietly
and unnoticed slipped into Rullb
house and seized him In ted, just -
he was grasping revolver. hich
Red Tomahawk wreuchsd from him.
Hull Head tried N induce him to 70
quietly and lie promised. but when
outside he gave yell which lr ,ugbt
Catch the Bear b. the rescue. Who
yelled for the hosii'es to bring their
guns. Cstch-the.B fired on Bull
Head, striking him in the leg Like
lightLihg Bull Head ~ ned snd put
bullet through Sitting Bulls head.
while Red Tomahawk simultaneously
shot him through the body. Police
rushing to the defense of Bull He'd,
and hostiles TO avepge Sitting Bulh
death. met over the dead body OF The
chief and . desperate hand tn hasd
encounter ensued. lasting three min
utss and costing dozen lives. The
police finally fortifi ID themselves IN
Bull's house and the hostiles In ihs
stable. 1OO feet away. The police sosn
drove the enemy from the stable, bst
the police we're surrounded BY hos-
tiles. who kept them in state of sisge
till troops arrived. not . minute too
early to relieve them.
Captain Fetchet. having loaded thf
wounded police into the ambulancs
and the dead police and Sitting Bulb
body on q wagon, and knowing u
wonld be hazardous to attempt 10 hold
the camp. fell back is miles 10 Oh
creek, where he was Joined by Colcnsl
Drum and companies II and @, 12zh
Infantry. Shave Head died at 7 thss
morning.
A courier just in-4a. m.-repes'r
the hoetiles In camp on 0nsd fivcgs
30 w,lc, west Of Bull's camp. TeGos
los was much larger than rsVHeteo.
Fifteen or twenty were kills4 -
several wounded. Strike The KIN =
badly wounded. Informeaioa -
BEEN sent to MAJ. Carroll, whe b sn1v
about 90 miles from then viii tws
fresh troops ef the IL savslzy. O.
Coasod. with thrss companies - -
"a infAntsy, b patEolIing ~ nega