Bisbee daily review., 1913-04-13
CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY

No one could count the enemy
where they sprang from covert TO
covert They were in fact, near
thousand strong at the first meeting
in the way-more than six hundred
Indians, a motley host gathered from
far and near at the summons of the
French, seyenscore Canadian rangers,
seventy odd regulars from the fort
and thirty or forty French officers,
come out OF sheer eagerness to have
a hand in the daring game Con-
trecoeur could not spare more French
men from his little garrison, his con-
nections at the lakes being threat
ened, and he sorely Strengthened for
men and stores He was stalking
everything. as II was. upon this en-
counter on the way.
II the English should shake the saw
ages of, as he deemed they would,
he must no doubt withdraw as he
could ere the lines Of siege we're
closed about him. He never dreamed
OF such largess of good fortune as
came pouring in upon him.
The English were not only check
ed. but beaten.
They had never seen business like
this. Twas pitiful, shameful slaugh-
ter-r1en shot like bears in a
pen there where they covered close
In the scarlet ranks.
Their hrstzblazing volley had sent
the craven Canadians scampering back
the way they had come; Beauieu, who
led the attack. was killed almost at
the first onset; but the gallant young
sters who led the motley array wav-
Esd never an instant, and readily
ssld the Indians 10 their easy work.
Washington did ali that furious
energy and reckless courage could TO
keep the order OF battle his com
msnder had so madly chosen, TO hold
the regulars TO their blind work and
hearten the Virginians TO stay the
threatened rout, driving his horse
everywhere into the thick OF the muir
derous firing, and crying upon all
alike to keep TO it steadily like men.
He had but yesterday rejoined the
advance, having for almost two weeks
lain stricken With asfeyer in Dunbar's
camp.
A Charmed Life.
He could hardly sit his cushioned
saddle for weakness when the fight
began; but when the blaze Of the bat
tie burst, his eagerness was suddenly
like that of one possessed, and his i'm
munify from harm like that Of ono
charmed Thrice a horse was shot
under him. many bullets cut his cloth
ing, but he went without wound. A
like mad energy drove Braddock
storming up and down the breaking
lines, but he was mortally stricken at
last, and Washington alone remained
to exercise such control as was pos
sibIe when the inevitable rout came.
Il was impossible TO hold the ground
in such fashion. The stubborn Brad
dock himself had ordered retreat ere
the fatal bullet found him. Sixty
three out OF the eighty-six officers OF
his force vera killed or disabled; less
than FIVE hundred men out Of all the
thirteen hundred who had but Just
now passed so CALAMITY through the
ford remained unhurt: the deadly
slaughter must have gone on to utter
destruction
Death Of 5rsdooek.
Retreat was inevitable - twas
blessed good fortune that Il was siiii
possible. When once IL begin i vas
headlonE. reckless. frenzled. Ihs mea
ran wildly. bilndly. as II hunted By
demons whom no man might hope %
resist--hsunted by the frightful cries
uaaddened By the searching and secrs'
Gre OF their foes. nov coming hot
upoa. their heels. Wounded comrades
uilitarY stores baggage. their ysfl