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Show TELEGRAPHIC Gallant Fight iu Texas Rout ol' an ludiuu Camp. Xew irork, 17. Head of Xorth Fork of McClelland Creek, Texas, Nov. 9th, 1S74, cia Fort Dodge, Kansas, Kan-sas, Nov. 10th. To-day near thU spot Lieut. Frank D. Baldwin, of tbe oth United Stated Infantry, commanding command-ing a detachment composed of Lieut. S. Overton's company D,, 6th cavalry, caval-ry, and Lieut. H. K. Bailey's company com-pany D, 5th Infantry, while on a scout, had a brilliant engagement with about 200 Cheyenne Indians, who were handsomely whipped by Capt. H. Farusworth of the 6th cavalry cav-alry on the 6th inst. To day from half-past eight a. m. to half past 1 p. m., ninety-eight men and a howitzer, how-itzer, fought stubbornly and bravely Hgaiost more than 200 Indians. Alter Al-ter charging their camps under a galling fire, he captured their whole outfit, driving the Indians eight miles from the last position of those successively taken by them. Lieut. Baldwin recaptured two little lit-tle nan-eta-.! (.-ahob- ff;.ia,a0a z. aiid 7 yeaw, named Germou, whose father, mother, eldest sister and brother were recently massacred in Kansas while going to Colorado as settlers, whose remaining aisters aged 13 and 15 years are yet held by the Indians. , Two desperate charges were made by the Indians to regain thorn. They were repulsed and handsomely charged by Lieut. Overton's company. com-pany. The federal troops got close enough to use pistols advantageously. Their horses were so much used up .after this that the men had to fight on foot. About eighty to one hundred hund-red trophies were captured and much property destr03ed. The camp numbered from 400 to 500, counting women and children. The pursuit lasted lor twenty miles, and was not abandoned until -1 o'clock p.m., when it became useless and impossible im-possible lor it to be continued longer. The horses were worn out, having had no forage for four days. No losses were sustainpd by our side. Four Indians are known to have been killed; how many more is not ascertained, ascer-tained, but at least twenty must have been slain. The bloody state of the field attests that the Indians dragged oft" rapidly a number of their wounded wound-ed comrades. Capt. C. D. Neill, of the 10th United Unit-ed Suites cavalry, with 100 picked men from Davidson's command, took up the trail and pursued the savages, who had gone tq'the Staked plains. |