The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-11-03
FIGHT WITH INDIANS
A VERITABLE BATTLE.
For an Hour the Opposing Forces
Exchanged Shots, the Indians
Finally Withdrawing.

uE she Imposing Forces
Exchanged Shots, the Indians
Finally Withdrawing.
Denver. Col, Nov. 2.-Five hundred
men, including sheriff's posses. aug
mented by volunteers from the ranches
adjacent. are searching the country in
the vicinity of lightning Creek. in
eastern Wyoming, for the band of In
dams which Saturday afternoon fought
a battle with Sheriff Miller's posse.
killing the sheriff and one deputy
named Fossenburg.
The latest advices are to the effect
that second battle has been fought
and ten Indians killed and eleven
others captured, but these have not yet
been verified.
News from the scene of the trouble
which is twenty-five miles from tele-
graphic communication, is very mea-
gre. The Indians, seventy-flve in num-
ber are said to be under the leadership
of Charlie Carries Elk, and are sup
posed to be Sioux from the Pine Ridge
ana Rosebud agencies, in South Da-
kota. They have been hunting in Con-
verse county, Wyoming, in violation of
the game laws of the state.
Sheriff Miller, with a posse, went to
the scene of their depredations last
saturday to arrest them. The Indians
mad received warning of the coming of
the whites and prepared an ambuscade
Tor them. The posse would have been
entirely annihilated but for the fact
that they were proceeding cautiously
and were prepared for some trick of the
Kind on the part of the Indians.
AT the first volley from the Indians
Sheriff Miller and his deputies ran to
cover, and then ensued a genuine In
dian fight. The whites found refuge
behind trees and boulders.
1t is thought that at least six In
dams We're killed and several others
wounded, among the latter being Eagle
Feather a subordinate chief. The bat
tie lasted almost an hour, when the
Indians began to make their escape by
ones and twos, on horseback They
carried their dead and wounded with
them, and are now believed to be well
on their way to the Bad Lands, in
Nebraska.
The officers did not attempt to fol-
low but sent a courier to Lusk, the
nearest telegraph office, with a mes
sage to Gov. Chatterton, apprising him
of what had occurred.
For the past two weeks the Indians
have been in Northeastern Wyoming
slaughtering game in violation of the
game laws. In addition the settlers
have been complaining that the In
dams have been killing and stealing
their cattle. The Indians claimed the
government had so reduced the amount
of their rations that they were forced
to kill game to keep from starving.
Charles Carries Elk openly declared
that if he and his followers were driven
too far they would fight. When Sher-
if Miller of Weston county was no.
titled of the refusal of the Indians to
get out of the state, he organized a
small posse and started for Beaver
Creek, along which the redskins were
encamped. On Friday the Indian camp
was reached. 1t was deserted by all
except the squaws, children and a few
old men, who were busy skining wild
animals and preparing the meat for
winter use. The entire camp was
placed under arrest.
The posse then started search for
the braves. They were located Satur-
day, and during the afternoon Sheriff
Miller and his deputies started to close
in on them. When the whites got
within rifle range of the Indian camp,
they were suddenly fired on, and the
battle followed.