Show of the platte bridge rig fight lit july ad I 1 returned front from tho the pulle nudge bridge the line was cut for about five milra miles west of iho be bridge anil and about half of tho the wire wiro taken ox off or ole I 1 P Et royed Willii mou platte bridge dridge 0 operator per ator saya twenty nine poles arc cut down I 1 think the line can bo be put in working order by to morrow to night b if there is IN ft ire enouf enough h here to repair r it fi fighting krillic the indians indian numbering about fifty attempted d to wilt abc herd berd from tile post but repulsed rc by the fantai troops charging hem and killing hilling about goir including one oae of their head bead bliler a cheyenne on the iho tile iho indian made I 1 t de their appearance in largo large taim caim D bets beis estimated at al from rom 1500 to SOO A gon agon train of four aragon with escort of twenty six ruen men on their way from sweetwater to tle platte consisting or the kans ts ivar ivere attacked attack cd by ohp indians four milis miles front from the platte on this day in plain view of the tha posts post collins of the alth 0 C V was ordered from the post with willi 20 men to charge indians and rescue the train and in the second charge tho the lieutenant corso became nn inana cable and tool took him in their midst when he be was killed and horribly mutilated in tile the first charge three wen men were milea and eight in tho the seco second ad one in man in was killed hilled and one wounded or of the escort ly with ith the train only three escaped the w wagons were so act on firo fire and the bodies of tho the men burnt by the indians on the bo alb very heavy right fighting im in which the indians were worsted tb 19 lit today to day was just across iho abo river from the post cotil casna lilies one lieutenant anil and twenty seven men killed and nine men wounded no correct estimate can be anade made of the indian indan lossi loss but it was much heavier than han ours our s on the evening of the 2 jtb the indiana retired alit dividing iding tile the larger portion poing boing knorth north with their wounded and the other part going south A note was found near collins body written in a derale fe balc hand band which stated sf cited that the war party was composed of Ch sous and blacki and that they intended to bes besche lege the post fo for four days day q and that soldiers had bad killed one of the he leading cheyenne chiefs as this note nolo was sup supposed posea to have bare uen been dropped by some prisoner in their hands operator |