The chronicle=news., 1914-07-02

Texas on what Is now Hutchinson
county between thirteen white men
and about 5000 Indians of the tribes
Of Comanches. Apaches and Kiowas.
There were also the mountain Mes
calero Apaches from New Mexico and
Arizona. The fight took place in n
stockade building about mile up
Adobe Wall creek from the old Adobe
Wall ruins. II was a trading post
erected by Lee, Reynolds and Ruth
built from green cottonwood logs
about twelve feet long set in the
They were set double so that the
structure was bullet proof. 1t had
bastions on all four corners with n
cupola on top with port holes.
In the spring Of 1874 the Conan
ches. kiowas ana Apaches made a
compact with the Cheyennes. Arapa-
hoes and Pawnees that they would
take the stockade and then the six
tribes headed by Quanah Parker
would go down and take Fort Grif-
fin. Then they would turn and
sweep up north and kill all the in
vading buffalo hunters off the earth.
The medicine men made medicine so
strong that the buffalo hunters guns
would not go off so all they had to
do was ust to knock them In the
head AMI scalp them on the morning
of the fight. At the stockade Jim
Hanrahan happened to be up just at
the daylight and saw what he
thought was n big herd OF buffalo
coming up the creek. He got some
of the boys out to kill some meat Us
they were entirely out. They went
down the road little ways and sat
down waiting for the herd to come
up. One-eyed Bill Benson saw some
lances shining in the light and then
lrealized that 1t was herd of In
dians instead of buffalo.
They ran back to the stockade.
aroused all of the men and began
putting up sacks of corn and flour
against the doors and windows. Two
brothers by the name OF Schiller
were sleeping in wagon outside.
One OF them got into the stockade
and found that his brother was not
there so ne went out to call him.
The Indians arrived just then and
killed them both. Inside the walls
thirteen men were busy fixing ev-
erything tight. Billy Dickson and o
man named Olds went up in the Gu
pola with two Sharps big fifty rifles
which shot 512 grains of lead. while
Pill Benson. Charlie Smith. Amos
Kent, Hank Campbell. old man Lew
is, Moccasin Jim Stell. Dirty Face
Jones. Emanuel Dobbs. Jim Hanra-
han. Charles Meyers, Jim Skinner
and Mrs. Olds remained on the
ground. The roof was crowded with
Indians trying to tear down the top
and get in. The men in the cupola
had box of ammunition of thous-
and rounds and tho began to work
the breech blocks as fast as they
could feed in the cartridges. They
did not have to take any aim. All
they had to do was to load and pull
the trigger.
The men down on the floor got in
to the corner bastions. stuck guns out
the loop holes and turned lose. They
shot so fast that they charred the
wood on the rifle stocks. For about
one hour therewas roar of big fif-
ties, forty-fives and forty caliber
guns. They did not need to be saw
ing on ammunition for there were
tons Of lead, hundreds of pounds OF
powder and thousands of loaded
cartridges. The allies could not
stand that kind of shooting very
long SO they began to hide out but
they circled around and tried to dc
something but there was nothing for
F. them to do. If they came within
range they just committed suicide.
About sundown the bucks went off
to their camp on White Deer across
; the Canadian river. These southern
Indians owuld never fight after
dark.
When it got dark brove Bill Ben
son struck out for Camp Supply about
one hundred miles northeast to get
help. Part of the Fifth Cavalry was
there under General Bankhead and
the scouts Amos Chapman and Jack
Stilweli were there. When Bill
2 Benson got about mile up the creek
he caught an Indian pony, the own
: er of which had been shot out of the
saddle. Bill climbed on and struck
out northeast for the head of VOL
creek and followed down the creek
to Camp Supply. He got there the
next morning about 10l,. m. In tho
morning the Indians kept u2 6