The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1898-10-14
fighting Third were seen TO rum
through the grass and weeds In the
direction from which the shots had,

through the grass and weeds ! the
direction from which the shots had
been fred.
THE men continued to advance, Ma
jor Wilkinson in charge OF the lett
flank, General Bacon in charge OF the
center and Lieutenant Ross in charge
OF the right flank. The soldiers were
running along, it appeared to me, on
their hands and knees, dropping every
moment tc fire q volley into the ranks
Of the enemy. The officers, however,
stood in the open air.
For thirty minutes there waa Q
ceaseless roar and every little while
we could hear the cries of the men
who had been shot. Major Wilkinson
cried out to Surgeon Ross that he had
been injured, and the next moment, as
he stood back Of his firing line ncour
aging his men, he seemed to stagger
and Surgeon Ross ran towards him.
".Give them hell, general, give them
HE'LL he called at the top of his voice
over the central flank, where General
Bacon was taking aim at q red man.
Then he fell into the arms of the doc
tor, who carried him into the log cabin
Mt the crest of the hill, where he died
one hour and thirty minutes later.
There were two wounds in his stom-
ach and an artery had been cut and he
bled to death despite the efforts of the
surgeon to save him.
about the same time the major fell
Private Powell, who was running from
one cover to another, was seen to drop,
and in the evening, after darkness had
come, he was carried to the little
cabin, the victim of another bullet
from the Indians Winchesters.
"The stripes on the sleeves of an
other man whom I saw throw up his
hands and drop his gun told me that Il
sergeant had been hit. AS he fell he
clapped one of his hands to his head
and afterwards i learned that he was
Sergeant Butler and that he had been
killed instantly by a shot through his
head.
CAS- he fell Lieutenant Ross, who
had charge of the two TANKS after the
injury sustained by Major Wilkinson,
was seen to drop upon his knees and
fire in the direction in which the shot
that had killed Butler came. 1t was
afterwards learned that Ross got his
man and had avenged the death of the
gallant sergeant. After that the men
were out of sight up in the woods and
behind the cabin and we could only
Law on the beach and wonder when our
end would come.
Suddenly to II right we heard the
voice of Colonel Sheehan of st. Paul,
deputy United States marshal. We
glanced up and could see the veteran
indian fighter leading an advance by
a portion of the right flank.
"sYou've got them whipped, boys;
you've got them whipped. Give it to
them, give it to them the colonel was
yelling at the top of his voice.
Some of the Indians had attempted
to turn our right flank and attack the
civilians on the beach. The colonel
saw us and his gallant attack had IN
doubtedly saved our lives. When we
realized the position in which the colo'
mel was. we called to him to get under
cover, but he paid no attention TO us,
He STAYED with the men until he had
| accomplished his purpose, and When
we had about made up our minds tha'
he was dead we were startled by u
move in the weeds above us.
".I've been wounded, boys; I've beer
wounded was the remark we heard us
the weeds parted and the gallant colo.
mel fell to the ground before us. We
tore open his clothes and found Q
wound in the stomach which was
bleeding profusely."