The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-01-15

lOSC. AllSI d " ullS 9Oil0 VI LAS 1H"ie'H
scouts, under command of Lieut.. Tay-
lor, induced the Indians to surrender
We found that there had been twelve
bucks in the lot, six of whom we had
killed. There were also two or three
old men, and the rest, NUN bering about
thirty, were women and children.
Every one of the bucks were wounded
and nearly every one Of the women
and children. We were ordered to re-
main with the prisoners and tring
them in when the wagon could be sent
out from camp for them. We waited
for about an hour and half for the
wagon, and in the meantime D troop
Joined US. While our men were dis
mounted and resting, we were sudden
ly attacked by a party of Indians who
left the agency to join the hostlles.
These we soon made scamper, but they
formed a skirmish line and gave us an
annoying fire. We had to abandon our
prisoners, however, for they couldn't
walk and there was no way of ofcarrying
them.
AS we were moving back from the
head of the ravine, I was struck in the
hip by a ball. Fortunately, it was
spent, and struck my field belt; so [
did not receive any injury from it, ex-
cept bruise. The ball went through
the belt and stuck between it and the
overcoat. I have it as souvenir Of the
fight. AS soon as all the troops came
into camp we packed everything and
marched back to the agency. Our troop
was the rear guard, and it was our duty
to march in the rear Of the last wagon
and keep everything closed up. There
were five or six wagons full of squaws
and children, and the children kept up
continual crying.
ave reached the agency about II
o'clock, and found everything quiet,
but learned that all of Two Strikes
band, which had recently come in from
the Bad Lands, had packed up every
thing and left the Agency. I don't
know how many Indians were killed
in the fight, but there weren't very
many that got away. At the place
where the fight started the dead bodies
were lying so thick that you could
hardly walk without stepping on them.
All the hills and ravines near the
camp were covered with dead bucks,
squaws, children and ponies.
1T was horrible sight, but it showed
what faith the Indians had in their
ghost shirts, for they should have
known what would happen if they
resisted.
awe suffered heavy loss, too. We
had twenty-seven men killed and
thirty-one wounded. Four of the woun-
ded have since died. Capt. Wallace was
killed. He was in the Indian camp
when the fight commenced, and was
struck twice across the forehead with
battle-axe. He must have been killed
instantly. Lieut.. Darlington was shot
through the right arm and Lieut. Haw-
thorne through the right groin. Both
will recover.
yesterday morning just after re-
veille, scout came in with the news
that the Indians had attacked the
Ninth cavalry wagon team, which was
on its way to the agency, and ofcourse,
we had to saddle up and 60 toits rescue.
We found the teams about two miles
from the agency in good condition,
though one of the men had been killed
and another wounded. We came back
to camp and had just unsaddled when
we had to saddle up and move out
again, this time to protect the Mission
church which, it was reported, had
been fired by the Indians. When we
reached the mission we found it all
right, but we were marched some dis
tance beyond for some reason and about
two miles from the mission we struck
the Indians-that is, we knew they
were in front Of US by the way the
bullets whistled, but we saw very little
of them. An Indian never exposes
himself to view and he knows how to
take advantage Of every break in the
ground to screen himself. We were
drawn into bad place before we got
through, as the Indians were allowed to
occupy the crests surrounding US and
to pour in a fire from three sides. At
one time we came very near having a
stampede, but we managed to avoid it.
The Ninth cavalry came in just as
matters began to look serious, and we
got cut of the scrape in good order. For
time, though, We were in very warm
place. We had very few casualties
considering the situation we were in.
One man was killed and six wounded.
II haven't taken my clothes off for
three days. We sleep on our arms
every night ready to turn out at
minutes notice. Last night it was re-
ported that the Indians would attack
oI,r oo,pp h,,t tho old Tp1:o, Horbtorc
don't believe it, for the reason that it
isn't the Indians custom to fight at
night.n
Spring medicine is now wanted, for,
if you are out of sorts and feel badly, ?.
P. P. is the remedy to take and get
strong and invigorated.
IF Won Suffer from anv affection