The Daily Texarkanian., 1894-04-23
FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS.
Bloody Battle Between Marshals and
the Dalton Gang in Oklahoma,

Bloody Battle Between Marsllals ana
the Dalton Gang in Oklahoma.
A press dispatch from Guthrie,
Oklahoma dated the 2lst inst,
gives the following thrilling ac-
count of a desperate fight of U. S.
marshalls with the Dalton gang of
outlaws:
The report received of a battle
between the Dalton gang and Dep
uty Marshals near ingalls,, fifty five
miles from this city, is confirmed
today. The fight occurred at the
house of Bruce Miller, one of the
outlaws. The officers surrounded
the house, all of them armed with
winchesters, just before daylight.
The Dalton bandits were inside.
No shots were fired until one of the
desperadoes came out just about
daylight to feed the horses, He
was held up and told to take look
around the grounds, and then re-
turn to the house, tell the bandits
to come out one at a time, unarm-
ed and surrender, or hostilities
would be commenced,
After looking over the field and
finding in shooting distance of the
house twenty men well armed, the
outlaw returned to the house. Full
ly half hours consultation was
had by the bandits before a stir
was made by either party, and then
the officer in command of the party
ordered his men to begin firing.
The house is a simple weather
boarded structure and not plaster
ed, and the shots from the Mar
shals winchesters quickly perforat-
ed the sides of the building. The
Gagged bandits returned the fire and
poured a rafting fire on the officers
through the window and crevasses
Of the house. At 10 o'clock Mrs.
Miller who had been wounded, left
the house and crawled to where one
of the marshals was located behind
a tree. She had received a flesh
wound and begged that she might
be allowed to ride to ingalls, for a
doctor to attend herself and also
baby and hired man, who were both
wounded The woman was permit
ted to saddle a horse and leave.
She would not state how many out
laws we're killed but admitted that
Bill Dalton and Bill Doolan had been
seriously, if not fatally, wounded.
The fight was kept up all day dur
ing Wednesday, Volley after vol
ley was fred into the house by the
officers and the constant crack of
the bandits winchesters told Of their
determination to hold out and re-
fuse to surrender
Shortly after nightfall, during a
lull in the firing, the bandits made
brake from the house and fled,
followed by the Deputies. They
went in the direction of the Greek
Indian Country.
The messenger who brought the
news did not learn whether or not
Dalton or Doolan had been killed,
but was told that three fatally
wounded bandits were left in Millers
house after their companions had
broken through the line of officers.
He states that two Of the officers
possee was killed and three wound.
ed.
Some of the bravest men in this
territory are with the pursuing par
ty. Bill Tilligman, Heck Thomas
and Will Madsden are there. None
of these men we're ever known to
finch. On the night they left this
city they said: "We will not re-
turn alive without our game with
us.
The messenger who brings in the
above information says that Mrs.
Miller is not dangerously wounded.
The United States Marshals started
out another posse from this city
today to assist in the chase.
Later advices state that report
is incorrect, and that it was not
the Dalton gang under seige in the
house, but the Miller brothers,
friends and sympathizers of the
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