After a few moments' fight the men broke and ran to the fort.

The officers, as usual, showed no fear, and were the last to retreat, half of them being killed or wounded,--one of the honorably noteworthy features of all these Indian fights was the large relative loss among the officers.

Most of the dragoons and riflemen reached the fort, including nineteen who were wounded; nineteen officers and privates were killed, and two of the packhorsemen were killed and three captured.

Two hundred packhorses were captured.

The Indians, flushed with success and rendered over-confident by their immense superiority in numbers, made a rush at the fort, hoping to carry it by storm.