The Sunday morning news., 1891-11-08

nOmenOn, recOlleu IN terror, WaVereu IOr
q moment, and then, on all sides, turned
to fly. Yet not without further scathe.
for twenty-three rifles were by this time
recharged and, as they wheeled to go,
nearly every one of them brought down
its man. Still, true to the habits Of
their race, they did not, as they went off,
leave one brave behind.
Even in the midst of our fighting
fury we could but admire the rude chiv-
alry or superstitious piety which inn
PEELED these children Of the desert to
carry off every last one of their wounded
or dead comrades-and the performance
itself was wonderful! Wherever lay a
fallen brave there would ride two war
riors, one on each side, who without for
an instant checking their ponies would
stoop swiftly down, and seizing the
prostrate form between them bear it
off beyond the reach of possible dishonor.
"None of the enemy retreated to the
pass, but all made for the great coulee
and shortly disappeared within its
far received scratch, and so short and
all absorbing had been the fight that,
but for the dead bronchos scattered
about the plain and the keen eyed vul-
lures already lowering aloft, we might
we'll have supposed the whole affair a
wild phantasmagoria of troubled mid
day dream.
Captain Jim was greatly elated at
our successful defense and unstinted in
his praise of our steadiness. 'Ef we kin
give the pisen sarpints 'nuther sich q
dose, boys, he exclaimed, I'VE won't need
ter think NV 'em no more, fur all crea-
ton wouldn't coax 'em in no third time.
But I reckon they won't low us no
chance ter do it. More'n likely they'll
try on the stayin out dodge now, or
mebbee night 'sprise, fur the Apache
Injuns is bout the only tribe that'll fight
in the dark, and they'd ruther not onless
they've got a mighty sure thing Nv it,
"The afternoon was wearing away;
four o'clock had come; no sign of an
enemy was to be seen, and the captain
called little council of war to consider
the feasibility of replenishing our store
of water from spring which, he said,
was situated at a short distance within
the pass. AS this was no farther away
from us than was the head of the cou-
lee, it was finally agreed that six volun-
teers should take the saddle horses, kept
for hunting purposes. and, singing
ten gallon keg between each two of
them, make the attempt, the remainder
of us agreeing to give an alarm in case
the Indians again showed up.
Accordingly the party, armed only
with revolyers, set out on their impor-
tant mission, and we saw them enter the
defile, apparently unnoticed. Ten min
utes passed in silence, and then we were
startled to hear resounding war whoop,
a succession of rapidly fred pistol shots
and the loud shouts of our men as,
partly mixed up with, partly pursued
by, band of twenty Apaches, they
rode heller skelter, and always fighting
out of the jaws of death, while at the
same instant, from the coulee, rushed
once more the main body of savages.
who, speeding along at the base of the
triangle, sought to get between the re-
treating horsemen and the corral
"tGreat snakesv roared Burrows, now
at last raging like a lion, the cunnin
varmints hez fooled old Jim this timel
Stiddy, boys, stiddyl Them fellers'll
hev ter fight ther way in or we'll all go
under. Mol nary man break cover, an
don't shoot till they git clost up, SOS we
kin pick off the reds from 'mong them
''But the gallant six, as it proved, did
not require our help, for, when yet two
hundred yards from the wagons, they
had reduced the number Of their treacher-
GUS assailants to thirteen, and these, see-
ing the game was played out, turned tail
and fled to the heavier force, now about
twice that distance from us and them
selves.
"Our men then darted into the opening
made by displaced wagon, the gap was
again closed, and we proceeded to take
stock of damages. Every man of the
heroic six had received numerous arrow
wounds, but none were disabled. All
their horses, too, had been struck, and
one of them afterward died.
"Gus Taylor was in command of this
squad, and it was solely owing to his
prudence that single member of it es-
capped. It seems that he took his men to
the margin Of the spring, but caused
four of them to remain mounted, while
the other two began to fill the kegs, into
which, however, they had dipped only a
few gallons when the ambushed Indians,
then numbering twenty-five, emerged
from behind the nearest point of rock,
fortunately forty yards distant, and
poured among them flight of arrows,
Instantly answered by volley from
their ready revolvers. Three of the saw
ages fell at this fire, and two more at the
next, and by the time the remaining
twenty had closed up our fellows were
all in their saddles and away. Taylor
concluded by saying that if his party
had carried only single shooters all
would inevitably have been slain, but
the repeaters so surprised the enemy,
none Of whom had been in the first
6ght, that they were half demoralized
from the start.
''Perceiving that all their schenins
had SO far failed, the hostiles now be-
gan regular blockade, intending,
doubtless, to keep it up until want OF
water should compel Us either to surren-
der or charge out on them, to be over
whelmed by numbers in a hand to hand