The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1913-09-25

: the open cave and at any Indian
head visible. Presently, however,
| the Apaches began to rally and reply
to our fire. But about this time
Lieutenant Bourke, at the head of
forty or fifty men, came leaping
i down the narrow trail. In a few
minutes .Bourke and | had taken
positions on either flank of the
Apaches' cave, and we opened up
/ sharp fire.
Soon Major Brown made his
appearance with the rest of the COM
mand, and quickly the Apaches
were completely surrounded. Escape
being now impossible, Major Brown
ordered flringto cease, and through
his :. interpreters summoned the
Apaches to an unconditional surend-
Ter. Yells of rage and defiance were
the reply. The Apaehes declared
they would fight to the death, and
dared the troops to come on. Major
Brown then asked them to let the
women and children come out. as
surlng them that they would be
protected and treated kindly, but the
Indians only jeered.
The rampant behind which part
OF the, Apaches lay was a smooth
wall or rock to high to be scaled
without ladders. The cave, where
the others lay, was not very deep,
and it was seen that the roof hung
at such an angle that rifle bullets
fired at it would glance downward.
The first line was ordered to rain
bullets high into the mouth of the
cave SO as to hit the roof at an an
gle. In less than five minutes our
fire began to tell. The Apches arose
up and began to fire over the ram.
part. Soon the wailing of the wo-
men and children was heard. Then
Mayor Brown ordered the men to
cease firing and again demanded
surrender, or, refusing to surrender,
to let the women and children come
out, For few moments all was
silent. The Indians, too, had ceased
firing. 1t seemed as though they
might be consulting as to what
course to take.
THE DEATH CHANT.
Then wild wailing song or chant
was heard, and the interpreters
shouted: That's the death song!
| They are going to charge! Here
they come!'
And 20 or more superb looking
warriors, fully armed, sprang IN the
ramparts and delivered a voIIey at
the. men nearest them. while from
their rear another party of warriors
sprang down and tried to get around
the left flank. Nearly every man
en- the front line dashed from cover
and went straight at them, firing as
they advanced killing five Or six
and driving them headlong- off the
rampant and back to the cave. In
the meantime the second line drove
back those who tried to escape BY
the right flank. The instance they
were behind tine rampa,ts, however,
they renewed the fight, still singing
and chanting the death song.
Major Brown now brought up all
his men on the first line and sent
perfect hail of bullets against the
roof of the cave. While this was
going on Capt. Burns and his COM
mand, who had been sent back. on
the Apache trail, appeared at the
top IF the precipice just above the
Apache stronghold, and within five
minutes Burns had the whole com
mand rolling ground .boulders down
into the now writhing mass of en-
trapped Apaches. Still the indians
refused to surrender, and held on
desperately.
Finally, however, their shouts
Of defiance and war songs ceased.
Then signalling Capt. Burns to let
up on the boulders, ajor Brown
ordered an assault. AS the troops
sprang forward and into the cave by
the rail on each flank of the rampant
they saw that the fight was over.
Only IS living Indians were left;
some of these were MORALLY wounds
ed. All the warriors were dead,
dying or badly wounded.
This was the beginning of the
end of the Apache war. Within
four months, in April 1873, all hos
tile kpaches had been placed on
reservations. Later, however, the
peace commissioners removed them
to a reservation totally unsuited to
them, and the result was another
Apache outbreak in 1885, when 70
settlers were killed in New Mexico
and Arizona. 1t took two years to
finally round up Geronimo and his