Floyd marched so quickly that he came on the Indians before they were prepared to receive him.

A smart skirmish ensued; but the whites were hopelessly outnumbered, and were soon beaten and scattered, with a loss of twelve or thirteen men.

Floyd himself, exhausted and with his horse shot, would have been captured had not another man, one Samuel Wells, who was excellently mounted, seen his plight.

Wells reined in, leaped off his horse, and making Floyd ride, he ran beside him, and both escaped.

The deed was doubly noble, because the men had previously been enemies.