When the trappers halted and began slowly to draw back, a deafening shout arose from the triumphant foe, and in a simultaneous charge they advanced, but still cautiously, not venturing near enough to discharge their arrows.
They were thus drawn along into the trap.

When fairly within rifle range, twenty-five unerring marksmen from their concealment, almost at the same instant, opened a death-dealing volley upon the surprised and bewildered warriors.

The slaughter was terrible beyond anything they had ever, in their native battles, witnessed before.

Twenty-five of their bravest warriors, for the bravest were in the advance, fell dead or severely wounded.

The Indians were thrown into an utter panic.
The thunder, the lightning, and the death-bolts had come from they knew not where.