The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-10

calls, for Mike Welch was an old army
man, and knew them perfectly. Ii was
good thing, too. that he was with us. for
he could tell US in advance what the In
diaus intended TO do.
1--WE just laid for that .darky, believing
that if we could Kill him, the Indians might
become discouraged, and go away but he
was too foxy, and kept in the background,
either from cowardlce or on the idea that
the commanding officer should keep out of
danger. We got him finally, although sew
eral days elapsed.
"In the afternoon of the first day, when
the Indians had retreated to long-range
distance, l found that my gun was not do
ing satisfactory work so far away. Billy
Dixon, afterward a government scout and
who guarded the window with me- had
two guns, one a 40-caliber Sharps, but no
ammunition for it. This had sights for
1000 yards. and was better than mine.
There was plenty of ammunition for IL in
Leonard's store, and l said to Billy that
I'd go and get some If he would let me
take it, He was willing, so, taking my
six-shooter in my band, l dashed out of
the door and did a lightning sprint for
Leonards reaching the corral gate in
safety, but with no time TO spare, | threw
myself flat to escape bullets, and to crawl
under the gate. l expected to take the In
dams by surprise and get there before they
could get bead on me, and l calculated
all right, for those at distance. but Of
course, did not know of two who were
hiding among the tall weeds in a lagoon
some fifty yards away They got a limo
on me just as 1 fell fiat. and the bullets
struck pile of wood chips that had ac-
cumulated by the gate, and scattered them
all over me- 1t was a pretty close oau
and still 1 wasn't under cover. There was
danger of being mistaken for an Indian
by the people in the store. so I yelled 10
let them know who 1 was. and. having
crawled under the gate madeea dash for
the open window. BY that time the main
body of the Indians were onto me. and the
lead came i'm a shower The bows vanked
me through the window as quick as q
flash, and without a scratch. / told them
about the Indians hiding in the weeds who
had shot at me, so one of the boys knock
ed out some climbing in a line to their
hiding place. and got the pair of them in
side of an hour / had the pleasure OF
helping bury them that night.
During the night we were not nolested
quite The contrary to the stories in books
"On the second day the Indians built
themselves rifle pits and plugged away at
us as they pleased, and we did likewise
with little damage. Occasionally they would
charge us as at first but we we're warned
by the bugle calls until the negro was
killed. and then they quit charging alto
gether. Welch would shout: Look out.
boys, they're blowing a charge, and we
would all be ready and hot for them.
Il think it was on the third day that a
terrible accident happened in the saloon
Billy Oles, whose wife was the only wo-
man in camp, was standing on the ladder
in the lookout on the roof, when he saw
the Indians preparing to dash over the
knoll and charge us. He shouted, They're
coming, and started to come down, CHI
ing his Remington needle gun, which had
two hammers down ahead of him The
triggers struck one of the rounds Of the
ladder, there was a report, and Oles' body
fell to the floor almost at his wife's feet
with the head blown off. We didn't dare
turn around from our posts to see what
had happened for the Indians were upon