Arizona silver belt., 1893-12-16
A pArrle srRANeELY woN.
nu Army Put Co Flight by One Man an
 With tue Loss of Only One.


 With the Loss of Only One.
 It was probably ono of the most re- markable battles that was over fought. The advance had been well plannei by the attacking force, the idea being to surprise the enemy at the dead of night. Every detail had been carefully consid- cred. The advance would be hidden by wood, and the first the enemy would know of it would be when the troops swept out of the wood and carried the camp by storm. There were apparently no pickets in the wood, and there seemed to be no possibility of failure.
 The colonel in command was gloating over his expected victory, when one of his officers called his attention to . bright light some distance to the left of the advancing column.
 "What is itg" asked the colonel anx- iously.
 "I don't know" replied the officer. ''It flashed up there only . minute ago"
 "Well, if any one suspected we were here he wouldn't go along swinging a lantern to make target of himself, as serted the colonel.
 The column had barely begun to move again when light appeared on the right and little to the rear of the one that had just disappeared, Another halt was made, and the colonel was tempted to order a volley in tho direction of the light, but of course that would betray the exact whereabouts of the column and would be almost suicidal,
 "We are being surrounded!' exclaimed one of the officers excitedly. Then q light appeared i'll the shrubbery , immediately ahead of the retreating col umn. The first man yelled Rifle pitr' and cleared the whole thing at one bound The second man was not so for | tunate. He stumbled and fell, and as | he fell ho instinctively made reach for the light. He was the only man killed, but his death completed the panic. Ranks were broken, and the retreat became Q wild race to get out of the wood,
 And the lights seemed to dance here and there, appearing at the most uneX- pected points and adding to the confu- sion.
 When the excitement was at its height, a man climbed outof a pit some distance in the rear of the retreating force He stretched himself and peered after the fleeing soldiers,
 Hanged if l wasn't cramped iii that hole, he said q suppose might as well tura a cannon or two loose just tC | walle the bows up and scare those foot racers a little more"
 He lay down on tho ground at the edge of the pit. reached his hand down tC some keys on a sort of switchboard, aud in an instant cannon boomed out. Ther he raised himself to a sitting posture. ht a pipe and chuckled to himself,
 Two or three men rushed up and breathlessly inquired what the trouble was.
 "Oh, had little brush with the enc my" replied tho man with the pip, calmly "They tried to surprise tho camp"
 And you beat themf"
 "Why, they're running yet"
 Quite a crowd from the camp ha( gathered by this time, and one of then cried, "Tllree cheers for the electrician but the man with the pipe raised hi hand to stop them.
 "The credit is not all mine" he said Remember my able force of hnemeI who ran wires through this wood ent made it possible for me to win this vic tory"
 Just then some of the men who ha( gone into the wood after the retreatinl enemy returned with the news that oni man had been killed.
 ''Whatr cried the electrician, jump ing up He shurried to the place wher the body lay,
 "Too badl Too badln he said regret fully, "but then accidents will happen even in a battle. He had no business t catch hold of live wire.
 "Oh, well, there's no use feeling ba' about it, put in one of the officers "l victory has been won, and only one Tiff has been lost"
 "But why have one lostI" asked tn electrician. "Of course it was tiresom work in that pit, and when got them ol the retreat was glad of it, but neye supposed any one was going to grab hol' of the light It's too badF'
 And the man who had won the victor could not be consoled. Chicago Tribune