Show kill kul eagles story of the fig rig fights i on the rose bud and the tho little big horn BISMARCK D T sept 23 1876 A standing rock bock letter of the gives the following of intense interest in relation to custers cutters bat tie tle kill eagle of surrender at this station last friday you have already been informed has given quite a lengthy account of the operation of sitting bulls forces the past season he commences with the date at which he left this thia agency last spring ring with twenty six lodges for sg the e purpose ef of hunting buffalo and trading t ra ing with the hostile indians H he e speaks of having heard reports th that at troops were going out to ish sh the ho os stiles tiles but thought he would have time to do his hunting and trading and get out of the way before a battle occurred they were obliged to hunt as they were starving at the agency and anti from hir hit account they were very successful killin killing twenty and thirty buffalo some kays days and in one herd they killed all but two he details the progress and incidents of each march on the seventh day they arrived at sitting bulls village where a feast and numerous presents pie of ponies and robes robea were given them efforts were made to induce kill hill eagle and his band to join in the contemplated movements and hostilities but evidently with out much success they were desirous of getting back again again to the protecting arms of the he agency but were unable to escape from the the meshes of the wily sitting bull the they y found too late that for them therb there was no escape their horses were either shot or stolen and wounds and insults were showered upon ethey they from every side in the meantime the forces of crook were and with his people kill hill eagle succeeded in escaping temporarily from the hostiles ho stiles he claims to have been distant some forty er fifty miles from the scene of the rosebud fight and relates many of the details and incidents which he was able subsequently to gather from the participants he places the loss of the indians in the rosebud fight at four dead left on the field and twelve that were brought to camp he places the wounded at as high as and says they had horbes horres hor aes res killed besides those that were captured he next comes to the fight on the little horn and aad describes the indian village which was six miles long and one wide and the indians swarmed there as thick as magg maggots otson on a carcase carease so nilmer numerous ous were they he then goes on and speaks of custers Ou approach and night with its tragic details as an unwilling un w ming spectator ph rather than a parti participant lipaut w who 0 during its progress rema remained inel inea me quietly betly 1 in his Iod lod gein the centre of the indian village the fight with denb commenced about noon the indians all rushing to oppose bib bis advance until the approach of custer toward the lower end of the village was announced when the wildest confusion prevailed throughout the camp lodges were struck and preparations made for instant flight I 1 vast numbers bf of indiana left renos renoa front and hastened to the assistance of their red brethren engaged with custer who was steadily forced back and surrounded until all were swept from the field by the repeated charges of the indians as if they had been carried into eternity by the irresistible force of a hurricane he described the firing at this point as us simply terrific and illustrated its force by clapping his hands together with great rapidity and regularity then came a lull in the fearful storm of iron hail hall and his hands were still again the dhe storm beat rast fast and furious as the thought of some loved one nerved the arm of each contending trooper then the me movement of hia hla hi hands slackened and gradually grew more feeble A few ering shakes like the rain on a window pane and then the movement ceased as the last of custers Ou band of heroes went down with the setting launi bun sun it was duskas dusk as the successful com batanus returned to camp litter littered L with their dead and wounded it md had not been to them a bloodies blo bio bloodiest odies I 1 victory Nour fourteen teen had bad fallen in I 1 front of reno peno thirty nine wen J down with custer and fourteen were dead in camp horbes hortes una traverses travers es were laden with the wounded on every hand and id jil countless numbers one band aiono alono alon aion of had twenty sever wounded on traverse traverses and sand thirty eight thrown across croEs a cross horses ell kil elit kill eagle says it seems aa as if every on ono was wounded and places the number as high as 1 he Is very positive however that no prisoners were taken there were no white men inthe in the tight fight 0 o b on the field one who had bee beert with mern them had bad cone gone to the tail agency the bugle calls sq s often spoken of were sounded by an indian he speaks of sitting bull as a it heavy helvy muscular maud mauj with large head bead and light hag halt hait hanging to his shoulders he ho 14 i not a white or half breed H ra gives the names of the leading chiefs present in the fight and ret rel re ports a chief high elk as batug belu killed in front of reno beno he even everl everi i goes on to speak of the approach of 0 general gibbons column and the th immediate flight of the adiana and the subsequent fight with lieutenant sibley Si bleys Is party where 4 chief of the he was through the head and instantly killed his statement is quite lengthy but 1 I have endeavored to give yo coq such portions ai are of parti particular culat interest and have not before bee beel made public deew ew york herald |