The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-01-06

door. If they had done this when they
first came we wouldn't have lasted a
Indians did not last a minute: the fire
from Langtons and the crossfire from
Hanrahan's. where Dixon and Masterson
mad secured an advantageous position,
were too much for them, and after a des-
perate but futile conflict they fell back
again. The first furious assault of the en-
envy was broken; in front of Leonard's and
Hanrahan's, to the rear of LangtOns and
Hanrahan's. the ground was strewn with
dead and wounded ponies and Indians. ly
Ing in the Texas sun. But the Indians
and in groups. eagerly. generally I'M
aNailingly. hoping to bear away their
wounded and their dead.
On the second day Hanrahan's plase
was abandoned, and the force was divided
equally between Leonard's and Langton' S
because of the large stock of goods to
De protected there. Wells were dug and
the places amply fortified
rIhat night hunter named Reed went
out OF the camp and across the prairie
toward Dodge City for reinforcements, for
which he received the magnificent sum
of hundred and twenty-five dollars. =
AT sunrise on the third day the battle
opened with brisk volley firing by the
Indians from the willows at the base of
the big butte on the east, by the creek.
The buffalo hunters promptly replied, and
the Indians were dislodged from that
point. All day the Indians circled about
the place IN little groups and carried on
the battle at long range, Withdrawing be-
hind the hills from time to time. a.
That afternoon William Olds of War
saw, MO, was accidentally killed by his
own gun on the roof of Langtons place
curing t,,Li t an indian sally. and fell through
the trap-door of the roof dead. at the
feet of his wife. the only white woman
IN that country, except Quanah Parker $
mother
More Hunters Arrive.
BY o'clock in the morning of the fol-
lowing day over d hundred hunters had
croWqed INTO Adobe Walls from the sur
rounding territory, making their way in
before the Indians were prepared for the
contest. They kept on coming till very
nearly all in the Texas Panhandle EXCEPT
those siam by the Indians had sought the
city OF refuge Two days of quiet fol-
lowed, and it was thought the Indians
had departed. lobe Roberts and Huffman
walked out to the sand hills for pIums.
thurman was killed in sight of the Walls.
the fortificatiO tons.
For number of days they We're sur
rounded and the firing continued but II
nally the Indians Withdrew and on tba
morning of July IA the hunters marched
out for Dodge City. which they reached
July 2. \. c. Myers, LeOnard's partner.
had gone down with eighty wagons and
brought away most of the stores excent
5000 buffalo hides The Indians, who had
lost eighty men killed and mortalIy wound
ed and two hundred ponies, burned the
buildings. and only little mounds on what
is now Sheriff William DiXon's ranch in
dictate the place where twenty-eight white
men vanquished 800 Indians and began
the campaign of 1874"
The Death of Tyler.
After the cessation of the fierce charges.
the besieged in each building became anx-
iOus as to the fortune of their comrades.
Bat MdSterSOn. the Youngest man AT
Adobe Walls took the Initiative as he has
in many adventures since. He suggested
that he should go to LeOnard's for some
amHUnition for DixOn's Sharp's rifle. and
that Dixon and Hanrahan should go to
LaIigton's. Hanrahan and Dixon made
their way to the southern building, with
some difficulty convinced the. men within
that they were not Indians. and climbed
through the window to find all well. Dixon
sgnalzed his advent by killing an Indian
at 500 yards and remained, Hanrahan re-
turning.
Dixon was a marksman not unworthy
of Mastersons tribute: Billy Dixon who
occupied half the window with me dur
ing much of the thickest of the fight
was d remarkable man. always cool, a
dead shot no matter what the distance
never saying a word, always alert. look
ing for an opportunity to drop - bead
whether Indian. Indian pony or buffalo,
whether standing, walking or running
Dixon always brought home the goods.
''Masterson climbed through the Win
dow at Leonard's, found his friend Tyler
dying. and with tender solicitude sought
to ease and comfort his last hours Not
vet out of his teens. this young Jack Ham
and assiduous attendant Gentle as
mother he raised the head of the dying
lad. when Tyler called for water. There
was not a drop left