The Nome daily nugget., 1934-12-24

the saloon, who were already awake and dressed, to the windows with their big buffalo guns in their hands.
 "We were scarcely inside before the Indians had surrounded all the buildings and shot out every window pane." Billy Dixon says For the first half hour the Indians were reckless and daring enough to ride up and strike the doors with the butts of their guns" And Andrew John son has recorded how the savages backed their horses up against the doors of the buildings and tried to push them in, showing a willing ness to fight at close quarters almost unpar- alleled in Indian warfare"
 But the steady fire of the buffalo hunters soon discouraged this and after beating off several attacks, the white men had a chance to take stock of their losses. Strange to say, there were only three. The two Smaller boys asleep in their wagon outside the stockade, had been killed and scalped Their big Newfoundland dog had evidently put up a fight, for he was also killed and "scaped"-a piece of hide having been cut from his side Billy Tyler one of the defenders of the Leonard and Myers store, was killed early in the fighting and except for some minor wounds these were the only casualties.
 Time after time the Indians charged but as their ponies were knocked down by the heavy slugs of lead from the buffalo guns and more and more of their warriors were killed or wounded, 1t began to dawn upon them that Isa- tai had been false prophet So the charges ceased. During one of these lulls young Co- manche, gorgeously appareled in war bonnet and scalp shirt and mounted on a fine pony, made a lone charge toward the buildings in the face of a hot fire from the hunters. Riding up close to one of the buildings, he leaped from his pony, thrust a six-shooter through a port hole and emptied it. He then attempted to retreat but was shot down. This daring war rior who had hoped to make great name for himself by his lone charge was Pe-ah-rite, the son of Horseback, one of the leading chiefs of the Comanches
 By late afternoon the Indians had given up hope of wiping out the defenders of Adobe Walls and began to withdraw. After an anxious night of watchfulness the buffalo hunters dis covered the next morning that only few Indians were lingering around the place and they were soon driven off by some long distance shots. During the second day hunters from some of the outlying camps made their way unmolested into Adobe Walls and that night one of them, Henry Lease, was sent to Dodge City for help.
 On the third day a party of about 15 Indians appeared on a high bluff east of Adobe Walls, but they were quickly dispersed by shot from Billy Dixons rifle which knocked one of the savages from his horse. It Is this incident that gave rise to one of the oft-repeated myths about the Adobe Walls affair, different accounts or H placing the distance Of the shot all the way from a mile to a mile and . halfl By Dixons own testimony "The distance was not far from three-fourths of a mile. was admittedly good marksman, yet this was what might be called scratch shot"
 More hunters came in on the third day ana by the sixth day there were fully q hundred men gathered there. It is among these late corners that 50 many of the Survivors" of later years were numbered. But by this time the danger from the Indians had passed. The red men had departed for a series of raids in Kan sas and Texas which soon brought the military into the field and resulted in their eventual de feat But before the affair at Adobe Walls ended there was one more tragedy, one which dark ened the life of the brave woman defender Mrs Olds. On the fifth day her husband was coming down a ladder with gun in his hand when it went of accidentally, and she rushed from an adjoining room in time to see his body roll from the ladder and crumple at her feet.
 Today three monuments stand on the site of Adobe Walls. One is small slab of granite which marks the grave of William Olds. An. other marks the last resting place of the Shad. Ter brothers. The third is huge red granite monument which tells that Here on June 27, 1874, about 700 picked warriors from the O. manche Cheyenne and Kiowa Indian tribes were defeated by 28 brave frontiersmen" and 1t bears the names of the 28 who truly fought at Adobe Walls"
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