Show I 1 A A F fort ort bono llovio correspondent ol of the louisville tells the following ie story atory about the aboyo named it stems strange that after it had bad keen been stated oner and over again that no one saw and escaped from the struggle that this dr hibits should turn kupias up as an eyewitness eye cyc witness of thoen tho en tiro tho th o ight fight yet it if i possible that thai his truo true I 1 the indians mado made au all attack on oil the wood train B harrington bent out reinforcements to assist tho guard of shewood train the theiu adi drans aris numbered fiat fifty the ic rc in forcing carty numbering eighty one inch including officers and citizens AS soon arthe indians that N n c e ceic elc i close quarters they began to retreat our oar men following them tho indiana a ravine our men still batill following them the indians had 2000 warriors conce concealed tiled in ille the troops were to enter the narrow defile until they were aud hopelessly surrounded bur rounded then commenced common ced one of the most terrible hand to hand fights ever recorded in the history of indian iti lian warfare our eighty one whites repulsed 9 2000 india in tareo successive charges but tho the fourth chai go was too much for them owing to the overwhelming wh elming numbers and disadvantageous ground our men could bould sustain thenis themselves elves n no 0 longer they med and scalped scalded to a mig mac not one was left 0 to o tell tel I 1 the woo talo of f blood tho pose was too weak to send assistance t to those poor fellow they were horribly mutilated but one eya eye wit i t to this fight pr jr bilics Hia esho ho being at a distance from those men engaged HO he states that our men fought de desperately spera tely the indians kept a hundred men busy carrying 0 off ff their dead and wounded it is a supposition that the loss of the indians amounted to four hundred killed and wounded wound pil i the above ova is fron from i the denver xea A nw j |