Many of our bravest warriors died. Soon though, one of the few times in Indian warfare, I hate to use that term but that is what they use, the village was taken by the soldiers. The Nez Perce were on the outside, they were out by the hillsides over this way and they were scattered around. Soon you could hear the chiefs yelling, “ You young men that wanted this war, look before you. Our women and children are being killed in front of us now. Do something! You young men that wanted this war, this has never happened to the Nez Perce people before.”

Soon the Nez Perce started getting into the cross fire with the soldiers. Hand to hand combat was taking place over here. The soldiers were getting riddled. It was one of the few times inside this type of warfare that the soldiers had the advantage by surprise but they lost the village. They were driven out of this village and they retreated all the way in that seed area, all the way inside that triangle of trees, over there in that draw. The Nez Perce came across over that way and they surrounded them and in time they just kind of started picking them off. They wanted to kill them all and I think they could have. And later on a howitzer came. The howitzer that came, they shot it twice thinking that the Nez Perce would be afraid of it and instead the Nez Perce attacked it. They killed a couple of the crew and the other crew ran away.