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

door At they mad done this When they
first came, we wouldn't have lasted a
minute" says Jimmy. But as it was, the
Indians did not last minute: the fire
from Langtons and the crossfire from
Hanrahan's where Dixon and MastersOn
had secured an advantageous position,
were too much for them. and after 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 Langton's and
Hanrahan's. the ground was strewn with
dead and wounded ponies and Indians. ~
ing in the Texas sun. But the Indians
returned to the charge. singly, in pairs
and in groups. eagerly, generally IN
aVailingly, hoping to bear away their
wounded and their dead.
, On the second day Hanrahan's place
was abandoned, and the force was divided
equally between Leonards and LangtOn's
because of the large stock of goods to
be protected there. Wells were dug and
the places amply fortified
THAT 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 a 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 We're dislOdged = from that
point, All day the Indians circled about
the place III little groups and carried on
the battle at long range. withdrawing be-
hind the hills from time to time. 81
That afternoon William Olds of War
saw, Mo, was accidentally killed by his
own gun on the roof of Langtons place
during an Indian sally. and fell through
the tTap-door of the roof dead, at the
feet of his wife. the only white woman
mother.
More Hunters Arrive.
by o'clock in the morning of the fol-
| IoWlhg uay over a hundred hunters had
crowded into Adobe Walls from the sur
rounding territory, making their way in
before the Indians were Drepared for the
contest. Ihey kept on coming till very
nearly all in the Texas Panhandle except
| those slain 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 plums
Huffman was killed i'm sight of the Walls.
but Roberts made his way safely back TO
the Notifications.
For a number of days they were sur
rounded and the firing continued but IL
nally the Indians withdrew. and on the
morning OF July IA the hunters marched
out for Dodge City, which they reached
July q. A. G. Myers Leonard's partner
had gone down with eighty wagons and
brought away most Of the stores except
o 600 buffalo hides. The Indians who had
lost eighty men killed and MORALLY 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-
I ious as to the fortune of their comrades.
/ Bat Masterson, the youngest man at
! Adobe Walls, took the initiative, as he has
I in many adventures since. He suggested
/ that he should go to LeOnards for some
am4unitiOn for DixOn's Sharp's rifle and
! that Dixon and Hanrahan should go to
Lajgtons. Hanrahan and Dixon made
| their way to the southern building. with
some difficulty convinced the men within
1 that they were not Indians. and climbed
| through the window to find all well Dixon
/ signaiiZed his advent by killing an Indian
at 500 yards, and remained, Hanrahan re-
/ turning.
Dixon was a marksman not unworthy
! of MastersOn's tribute: Billy Dixon, who
occupied half the window with me dur
/ ing much of the thickest of the fight
/ was a 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
on the enemy, and when he succeeded,
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 assduOus attendant. Gentle as a
mother he raised the head of the dying
| lad. when Tyler called for water. There
was not a drop left.