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Show GENERAL. 1 I.iroSy Filit With Iiicliaui. Cheyenne, 9. News from Fort Fetterman states that on the 6th a haying piirty of twelve men and Boven ox teams wero attacked by a band of twenty or thirty Indians, twenty five miles from the above post. John Olteus, wagon muster, w;is badly wounded, aud one horso killed. Two ol tho party went out hunting, and about 8 o'clock heard a war song and ' hastened to the train, which wan immediately prepared for defense, j Four of the men started to find the 1 Indiana, which they did, and made a lively retreat, hotly pursued by tho Indians to within fifty yards of tho train, when eight men sent a volley into the reds, who retreated to tno shelter of the bluflsand commenced firing upon the train, which was at a disadvantage and compelled to movo 200 yards. Tiio light contiuued nearly four hours. Tho number of reds killed is unknown; two were seen to drop. Mr. Powell, contractor, I states that the Indians showed groat courage, and wero strongly armed with Winchester and army rifles. The telegraph line between Fetter-man Fetter-man and Oneyenno was cut about that time, it is thought by tho same I band. Ottens 13 doinn nicely, hut will uiulouhedly loso his right arm. |