Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1909-04-15

S i"osCly over eacn knee. Riding we'll l., eu,. ae
inc center of his line, Roman Nose led the obarro - r.t ~
d reckless gallantry that may have bnen on,,aGo ~
couIa not nave been excelled. Six feet three ;nohou ~
height and perfectly naked save for a sunerb w % bonnn -
VI MS mead, a crimson silk sash around hs urois+ 49,
nis moccaslns on his feet, showing immense hroadtb
OF shoulder, but, nevertheless, sinewy and sIim ~ ~
%aist INC nank, ne sat We'll forward on his barebacked
chesthut-colored charger, with his knees under the lariat
tnat twice encirclcd his horses body and his rieo ba1d
Just below the trigger in his left hand tic horno1 IL ~
hoilow of his arm, while the same hand prasnod hotb
na nurse name and bride, leaving his right arm free
70 dlfect ms men, and as he came charging n n Of tbo bood
OF ms command he was the very beau ideal of an indian
chief. NN '0"' Vi oil inulan
AS soon as the charging warriors had fairly started ia
""iu 10 Jul immaculate assallants, who lay under cover on
the two banks of the river opposite an island. onened
a rapid fire on us from both sides. with tho Intention
OF covering us to such an extent that we wouId NOT dare
10 rise from our rifle pits to open fire upon the attacking
force, and so for a few seconds bullets fell everywhere
around us.
Ihls l looked for, but ] well knew that once the charg-
ing indians came within range of the bullets of their own
men their fire must necessarily cease. CHANGING back
over my command, | saw that they had all turned in their
rue pits toward the foot of the island, the direction from
which the charge was coming, and crouching low with
their knees well under them, their rifles closely erinned
In their sinewy hands, their bronzed faces set like iron
and their eyes fairly ablaze with wrath, they Law with nos.
trlls all aquiver, impatiently awaiting the command to
fire.
Suddenly the fire from the Indian rihemen ceased, and
placing my back against my rife pit and leaning on my
elbows against It's sides, | shouted: 'NoWi' and Reecher
Mccall and Grover echoed the cry.
Instantly starting to their knees, with their rifles at
shoulder as they rose, and with one quick glance along
the barrel, 40 good men and true sent the first of seven
consecutive volleys into the %onrushing savage horde.
welcoming the first and second voleys with reckless veil
the charging warriors came CALAMITY on, but at the third
the most of them ceased to shout, and l could see great
gaps in their ranks and men and horses going down, but
still the mass of them bravely held their course, Roman
Nose leading them and wildly waving his heavy Spring
field rife over his head as though 1t were a wisp OF
straw, he alone shouting his defiant war cry as he swept
toward us.
AT the fourth volley their great medicine man, who
was leading the left of the column, went suddenly down,
and for an instant the column seemed to check Its speed.
but only for a second, and then with a mad rush It came
bounding and leaping onward. The fifth voIley seemed
70 pile men and horses In heaps, and at the sixth Roman
Nose and his horse went down in death together.
"a hundred feet farther and they will be upon us! But