The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-08-07
FIGHT FIERCE BATTLE.
Militia and Convicts Meet and Engage
in Desperate Melee.

~ElaCeTFlilH, Cal-, aug 4-S1]ufudS
night, shortly after Z O'Clock, company
H OF the California National Guards
met the escaped %convicts on the Pleas
anton Valley road, seven miles from
Place,ville, n a terrific battle en-
sued.
Private Gill Of Company H was shot
through the body, from b right to the
left shoulder, as the shooting began.
The wound will prove fatal. When a.
riad from the field by a relief force
e n to the scene of the fight as Don
as the news Of the battle reached the
nefEhbDriDg uses he stated that at
least four Of his comrades were hit by
the conSicts and probably killed.
It is not definitely known what hap
perred to the desperadoes, but it Is said
that two We're SHOT and dropped in the
brush and are supposed to be dead.
Every available man and boy in the
town OF Placer1ille has been armed
and all are now on the way to the scene
CT the fight.
The battlefield is at the base Of a
great hill adjoining the site Of the
Grand Victory mine.
When the fighting began Sheriff
Bosquit was on b other side of the
hill. With his men he started in the
direction Of the shots as DOR as the
firing commenced, n 1t is said is
now in the thick of the affair.
The affair oveshadows anything OF
8 like nature that has occurred in the
west. At least sixty men are nov par
ticipating in the fight. All sorts of ru-
mors are floating into Placerville as to
the result Of the meeting between the
| soldiers and the convicts. The people
are In a frenzy. Many of them have
! relatives at the front.
1t is impossible TO tell just how
many We're killed or wounded. The
= -,
to find a man if he drops helpless to
the ground.
Placervl1le, Cal, Aug. 4-The con-
victs who escaped from Folsom prison
are still at large. The five who en-
gagged in a fatal fight with their pur-
suers at the Grand Victory mines Sat
urday night have not been seen today
ahd apparently have made a success
full retreat. In their haste to get away
from the militia and sheriff posse they
left a water can, several hats n some
| firearms on the hillside where the con-
ffict occurred.
The dead bodies IF Festus Ruther-
ford and W. c. Jones. the two militia
men who were shot by h outlaws
were found this morning where they
had fallen. Jones had served in the
Philippines as q OF the Frs
Tennessee and the Thirty-SeTenth vol
uatee infantry regiments. Al Gill. the
national -guacdsman who was sho'
through one lung is expected to re
cover.
Another victim of the chase was
Philip Springer, q resident of this dis
trict. He is haT of hearing, and fail.
ing to respond to an order to halt wa
fatally shot by a picket early Sunday
morning.
A report received here last evening
states that four %convlcts, not believed
to be the same who ambltsted the OH
cers, were discovered Sunday nea5
Lotus, in the Weber creek district
A number of shots We're exchanged
but SO far as known without effect.
Dutch Fiat, Cal, Aug. 1.-TWO of thu
Fospm %collvicts were surrounded herr
last evening and a fight ensued.
It is supposed that m OF the con
Ects was shot by Glen Wedgewood
Wedgewood was shot in h hand b!
the ~coLyictS.