The dismounted Indian warriors still continued firing, but as the scouts had thrown up their intrenchments sufficiently to protect themselves by closely hugging the ground, little or no damage was done.
A second charge was made by the mounted Indians about two o'clock in the afternoon, and they were again repulsed with a severe loss.

Darkness finally came on, and then ensued a cessation of hostilities.

Two of the scouts had been killed, four fatally wounded, and fourteen others were wounded more or less severely.

There were just twenty-eight able-bodied men left out of the fifty.

The supplies had run out, and as Dr.Mowers had been mortally wounded and the medical stores captured, the wounded men could not be properly cared for.
Although they were entirely surrounded, and one hundred and ten miles from the nearest post, the men did not despair.