The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1899-02-16
FIELDS OF ADVENTURE.
THRILLING INCIDENTS AND DARING
DEEDS ON LAND AND SEA.

Nov an Army Sergeant Won tho United
States Medal OF Honor by Saving a
Lieutenant FrOia Apaehes - Saved
From Death By a Seconds Space.
There is, perhaps, no style of war
fare which puts men to greater test
than skirmishes with the Indians, and
many medals have been well won in
this way. The American temperament
which enables q man to remain cool
and deliberate i'll the face of the most
appalling danger, says the New York
World, is never called into play oftener
than in this peculiar warfare. In the
year 1874 Lieutenant King, of the
Fifth Cavalry, was detailed to make
surveys Of a military reservation in
Arizona, when an uprising of the
Apaches suddenly occurred. The
trouble was wholly unexpected, as
was usually the case in those days.
The Apaches up to that time had stub
bornly resisted every effort to civilize
them. During the winter months they
accepted sullenly the beef aud bread
which the Government gave them, but
when the spring came they were in the
habit of painting their faces, discard
ing their tall hats and "store clothes"
and, armed with good rife supplied
by the Government, setting forth ia
STAY. They were pursued by the
troops, but they were so familiar with
the mountains and 80 expert in their
own peculiar warfare that it was very
difficult to entrap them.
Lieutenant King on hearing of the
outbreak started at once with a party
to run down the Indians. After sew
eral days hard riding and while the
Lieutenant CHANGED to be some dis
lance ahead of his command he sud
denly came upon q number Of the
enemy, who were waiting for him in
ambush. Himself an experienced In
dian fighter, he instantly glided into
the underbrush in an attempt to flank
his position. A moment later an arrow
whizzed by his head and buried itself
deep in tree. Another arrow cut the
muscles at the corner of his eye and
moment later rifle ball pierced his
arm. His only chance OF escape was
in running back to his men, who were
hurrying to his relief After few
steps, however, weakened as he was,
he caught his foot in the root of a tree
and fell heavily to the ground half
conscious. Knowing well the fate
awaiting him if he fell into the hands
of the Indians, King drew his revolver
and was on the point of killing him
self, when one of his men, Sergeant
Taylor, suddenly dashed out of the
woods and caught him up in his arms
In spite of his burden he managed to
get in advance of the Indians, stop
ping every few steps to fire q shot at
them. King soon saw that Taylor
could not carry him much further, and,
fearing that they would both be lost,
he told the Sergeant to leave him and
save himself. Taylor refused to for
sake him and King urged and implored
his companion to save himself, and
finally ordered him to return alone to
the troops. Both men knew that if
the Indians once captured either of
them they would be tortured to death
by means as horrible as those of the
Spanish Inquisition. But Taylor car
ried his wounded officer for nearly half
q mile under fire over the rocks and
ravines, and only released him when
he was safe within their own picket
lines. 1t was for this act of daring and
devotion that Sergeant Bernard Tay-
lor was award I'd the Medal of Honor.