The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-10-02
BARRY ATTACKS
ARTICLE BY FLICK;
FACTS TWISTED
TAKES ISSUE WITH STATEMENT
OF FRANK FLICK WHO SAYS
HE is CUSTER SURVIVOR
Places Lecturer in the Light of an
Imposter; Gives Facts Concerning
Memorable Indian Battle, and
Shows Discrepancies of Article.

ID. #. Barry, a Duluth, Mimi,
photographer, and a widely known
authority on pioneering life IF the
early West, takes issue with one,
Frank Flick, age so, a so-caIled
survivor of the battle of the Lit
tie Big Horn (The Custer Massa-
cre), who in an article appearing
recently in Minnesota newspapers,
in which state FIeck has been de-
Hvering lectures, gives an account
of the memorable battle.
In calling attention to the article
of Fleck, and his claims made there
in, Mr.. Barry states, in part, as fol-
lows:
"From his twisted and warped
facts, Fleck was never in the bat
tie. The article published by Flick
states that Fleck enlisted in the reg
ular army in 1857 going from To
ledo with 16 other recruits, and was
assigned to the Seventh U. S. cavalry.
In 1875 he was one of the cavalry
detail thai captured the Indian
chief, Rain-In-the-Face, and placed
him in a prison at Fort Lincoln, Ne
braska. The chief afterwards es-
capped and was one of Clusters bit
terest enemies.
The Seventh cavalry was sta
toned in the northwest and waged
continuous warfare upon the Sioux
under Chief Sitting Bull states this
man Fleck. Before the battle of the
Little Big Horn, where Custer and
his men met death, at the hands of
the Sioux, Custer divided his forces
into two parts, one commanded by
himself and the oher by Colonel
Reno.
Lost Entire Command
"sHe had planned ia strike the
Indians from two sides and demon
aliZe them, but instead he suffered
the loss of his entire command and
Reno and his men narrowly escaped
humiliation. Just before the en-
gagement Custer detailed 80 men to
gnard the supplies, and with this de-
tail Fleck was stationed.
1--WE were separated from the
other men but a short time said
Fleck, when we saw that they were
being surrounded by the Sioux.
There was no commissioned officer in
our detail, but we Immediately de-
termined to follow the trail of Re-
nos command. We lost the trail
and came out 80 or 40 rods to the
left of the position occupied by Re
nos men.
Faced Deadly Fire.
eve had just reached the top of
the bluff when a band of savages
seemed to rise out of the ground
but fifty feet distant and poured a
deadly fire into our detail. We
were completely overwhelmed and
in a short time every trooper except
myself and a trooper named Frank
Knapp of Milwaukee had been killed.
KNAPP was shot through the
hip and I had four bullet wounds and '
an arrow wound. One bullet passed b;
through my left wrist and the same /,
ball or another pierced my shoulder.
Another bullet entered my right leg |
and a fourth my right side. Both {
of our horses were shot from under
us, and in falling my mount rolled r
on my legs and pinned me to the !
ground. I lay for four days with !
that dead horse on my legs before :
some of Reno's men got me and :
me from the field" 7
"Knapp was shot on the third day /
when he peered over the carcass of
dead horse and on the fourth
day the Indians withdrew fearing re-
Inducements, Flick further states. 1
Reno's men then picked up Flick and c
withdrew from the field. e
Gin withdrawing from the field, a
Fleck states, he passed over the t
scene of Clusters last stand and saw
the mangled and mutilated bodies of n
the brave general and his men, and y
hat Cuser's body was so mutilated n
that it was scarcely recognizable" y
Mr.. Barry continues. r.
Article Is Amusing. e.
'Fleck's article amuses me-" Mr.. fl
Barry states in reply. First, Sitting k
Bull was not a chief, he was a Sioux Il
Medicine man. Second, R%ain-in-the- K
Face did not hate General Custer.