The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
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DDEADWOOD DICK"
D,,,E NOVEL HERO RELATES
Ihr az his REAL ADVENTURES.

pitched Batue'
l,.a,, the ST. Louis Globe-Democrat.
.I r,V.,I s. D.-The real "Deadwood
"""0 otherwise Dick Clark, laughingly
Di'A, ,,...s most of the deeds and adven-
r'pu'', attributed to him by the dollar-a-
lu,1 siroa novelists, but is will
n-r to admit that he mas
nns IN some pretty tight places,
Us sa &c duly thankful that he lives to tell
.,io clark is in the employ OF the
w and NJ V. Railway Company at
:" 4..,ood and now goes about daily
.,rtlne utterly devoid of romantic fea-
Or wv. but If properly approached, he Is
y, ,yorse TO spinning a yarn about the
w. when he was an adventurous boy
zinc for Uncle Sam. He gives the
4 story Of MS nios' III --i''7
B follows;
4 ,rbo tiabtest pinch l was ever in was in
\ .,o sprlng of '7S, on ride from Fort Penn
Nina to Fort Stephenson, away up north.
'r,rorv from Cork a well-known scout
= those DAVIS had the ride to make, and
4 invited me to go along-with the assur-
4 o,co however. that it would be at the
4 risk Of nv scalp. In those days, though,
4 admit care as much about my scalp as
7 do NOW. so I didn't hesitate about &C
cepting the invitation.
r. mas lovely weather when we start
Cd and we had a pleasant uneventful trip
IA within a couple of days ride OF the
Missouri. Jimmy was jolly company, al
wavs telling stories and cracking jokes
like the happy go-lucky Irishman he was.
He was not only good company, but he
was a good man 10 have with you in
scrimmage, for although he was little
chap, he was strong and wiry, and was
totally devoid of fear.
zone evening, a couple of days before
we expected to reach the river, we had
stopped to camp, and had the horses pick
eted out and the fire going for supper
when Jimmy suddenly laid his ear to the
ground, then looked up and remarked quiz
city: Injuns, Dick Get tn harse, an
be domd quick, too, FIR we've got t. rode
fr utr
I'VE didn't have much of a start, for by
the time we got into the saddle they were
within rifle shot of us. AS soon as he
was mounted Jimmy who was a splendid
marksman, drew a bead on the foremost
red and got him-and for a moonlight
thought it was pretty good. Then we
flew, with the bullets pelting all around
us.
I'VE had the advantage of the short rest
our horses had had, but | wish to remark
right here that they didn't run half fast
enough, those horses, in spite of our en-
cOuragement. But we managed, at any
rate, 10 draw out of range, and to keep
up that lead. Our objective point was 4
place known to Jimmy as the Dogs Den,
about sixty miles from where the reds
flushed us; and the question was upper
most all the time, can we make it?
We'll, to make long story short, we
I'D make 1t, running right through an
other bunch of Sioux to get there lust as
We began to think ourselves safe. Jimmy
shot one reds pony, and was hit on the
leg himself, but it wasn't much more than
a scratch. His horse was grazed on the
Hank by the same bullet.
We were mighty glad to get into the
Dog Den, which was an excellent place
Tor defense. 1t was a little rock-strewn
4 terrace, backed up by a perpendicular
GIN. The rocks in front made a natural
s barrcade, There was a little grass and a
& spring OF water; and, properly provision
tl haif dozen or so of men might have
Wthstood an army there. AS soon as we
10Y inside the barricade we dismounted
ana looked back The reds, half hun
urea or more, were swarming right after
Kin yez sthand thin off, Dick, ontell
lmmy.
Yes l told him. and Jimmy disap-
taIeu Tor a few minutes. The reds stop
~ DOWN near the foot of the hill, and l
DuA shot at one of them, although he
.as IN the shadow He was hard hit, to
uge from the way he yelled, and the
g, OF them pulled out of range.
All day we stood off the crowd with
as nuch trouble. but when the shadows
sah TO lengthen we got uneasy, for we
view we couldn't hold out against SO
aHy IN the dark. We had done it for
s hour or so before daylight, but we
%uN3t do 1t all night. So, just as the
'A oegan to gather, Jimmy told me to
~ a'u get the horses. l saddled them in
~ shape and joined Jimmy; and pres-
uy ne gave the word, and the way we
Gown that hill was worth the price
aIuilssion. didn't see anything dis
10y put l knew that we were go
~, through a lot of Indians punched to-
mat they were shooting at us and
az them-and the next thing Jimmy
KY 1u We're side by side. skimming over
M "Eel prairie, toward the source of the
UT ABOUT about an hour we rode. with
,sg,I iou devils none too far behind. ana
ns an occasional shot at u.s. until we
- suddenly to a little stream that
49, toward the Big Cheyenne. IL
n1 very wide, but the banks were high
ry aiilost Perpendicular, so we did no.
lon'. loss the stream, but turned and
M ~ wy" H. From the yells that followed
movement we knew that the red had
M ~ ana thought they had us trap
ny u'en. suddenly, half a dozen little
9shIahg up in our rear, and in almost
ulne than II takes in the telling
merged into one great wall OF fame
r bounded across the prairie hehin1
nDr,t ace morse. II looked as though
gi w. ouIeIy die IN one way or another.
Ma oposed TO die fighting. We found
s. Iagnv,. "nere' by going down the bank
ten wy, we could get into the creek red.
o, set back fire, and another on
w., side Of the creek, after which
"lo the water with nothing but
COM Iut and waited for the big Ore
Un, ti., along with a pelting storm OF
49, De'hlhg missiles. It jumped ;he
"a stn G1' presently petered out but not
#hiskor- terrible heat had signed off our
q over ana the hair our hats didn't
#ated anu ne smoke had almost suffo-
BAL r.'- after II was over, we got out
th. uttered, but there was no sien
INNS and we decided they must
X omir, ,as 9I the ground to cool before
#lmans ? our charred and blackened