El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-20
all the cartridges In the place.

markable. There must have been more
than hundred in the crowd and they
was painted up and yellin' like devils.
They had some new scslps hanging to
'em, and tied on their horses, and they
shook 'em at US, so that we would see
the fresh blood and get scared.
I'VE never showed ourselves. The
Indians saw that the place was bal
ricaded, and they didn't like the looks
Of it q bit. They kept off at little
distance, chantin' and yelling their
war songs, and circled around the build
ing On their horses. Then they begun
to shoot. and they just -iddled that old
shanty till it would have leaked in q
right heavy dew.
1--WE didn't want to shoot because
we didn't want them to know that we
was on the roof, and beside, we didn't
have none too many cartridges. After
while they got off by themselves and
roof and we knew that it was going to
be fight. T1ey come a ridin' back
kind easy like with big chief in the
lead. l forget which one it was now
but l think it was Wolf Leg. he
leaned over on the side and took q
shot at the root.
tine next second Buffalo Bill pulled
the trigger of his winchester and the
Cheyenne dropped off his horse with
a bullet hole through his right eye.
Billy Cody never missed anything Re
ever shot at
"Well, the yelling that broke out
when that chief dropped was something
pretty loud, let me tell you. It's the
wierdest sound there is, 1 reckon. and
I've heard mountain lions and wolve
and all sorts of wild brutes. Every H.
dian yelled like he was mad and they
made rush for the porch along the
front, every one of 'em shoOtin' and
tauntin' US to come out and fight.
1--WE lay out fat and fired through
the pickets, aud every time gun on
the roof cracked there was one more
horse without rider. Some of 'em
got so close % the house that we
couldn't see 'em without standing up,
and of courso we weren't going to do
broke into the place. If they'd have
pointed their guns ur and fired through
the roof it would have been the end Of
us bit they found the whiskey and
didn't think about it. 1t was strong
place right enough but it wasn't
ha
st was gettin' to be q pretty tight
place and L made up my mind that
we was going to die fghtin' right
there, cause we knowed we'll enough
that when those inside got drunk
enough they was going to set fire to
the place, If they didn't shoot us
the roof first.
1.-THE Indians outside was dying fast.
Some more of 'em tried to rush the
porch again, and we got 'em all. But
the ammunition was gettin' low and
every time we slipped In cartridge
we counted the ones that were left.
Jack Pierson had got down to his six
shooter and 1 was thinking that I'd
have to take to mine before long
while, when all of a sudden we saw q
cloud of dust just where we had seen
the Indians first. We knew it might
be Indians. and that it might be cow
boys, and 1t was an anxious time while
we was waiting to see.
"Well,it was boys from heranch-
IS around there. They'd found out
hat the Indians was coming toward
The settlement and they followed them.
Of course after that it was all over with
,he Cheyennes. Some of them got
away and some of 'em didn't.
''They run when they seen that
crowd of cow punchers a coming.
The Indians and the cowboys was nat.
ursl enemies anyhow. The minute
We knew for sure who it was a makir 2
Of that dust we let the Cheyennes
have it as as hard as .ever we could.
then, and We gave those In
1ians every cartridge we had. Some
Of the cowboys followed the sea ttered
Indians, but the most of them just
stopped when they got them on the
run, and we come down off the roof
and was mighty glad to see'em. The
Indians had naturally wrecked that
saloon, but there was enough left to
give the boys something to drink.
There were fifty-six dead Indians
ronnd that shanty when we went out
10 look. There WAS some more little
ways off that was killed by the COW
boys, too. Buffalo Bill got the most of
The fifty-six. He is the greatest shot
with a rifle that was ever on the plains,