The TA ranch was reached shortly after noon and all hands put to work strengthening the position. The following plan was furnished the Daily Leader by a correspondent on the ground during the siege, and is believed to be substantially correct. The buildings are located in a bend of Crazy Woman Creek, twelve miles from Buffalo. The house and ice house (marked in the cut) are built of hewed logs, 6×8 inches. The stable is also constructed of logs closely fitted together. Log breast works were built on two sides of the house and earthworks inside of the fort. Loop holes were cut, and altogether the position was able to stand off a rifle siege almost indefinitely, did the provisions hold out. In this respect, however, the situation was not encouraging, for the three heavily loaded four-horse wagons of supplies had been captured by the rustlers early in the day, and the sole dependence was the small store at the ranch for the cowboys’ use. The supply wagons were found to contain not only provisions, but fuse, giant powder and poison. Still the “white caps,” as the rustlers styled the block house party, were in good spirits, because they had faith in the promises of their “Cheyenne friends” to protect them in the event of an emergency. The emergency had come and their faith was to make them whole. CHAPTER VII. THE SIEGE--GATHERING OF THE SETTLERS--CONSTRUCTION OF BREASTWORKS AND RIFLE PITS--ANGUS’ WONDERFUL RIDE--OFFICIAL CORRESPONDENCE--RESCUED BY ORDER OF PRESIDENT BENJAMIN HARRISON Terrence Smith had seen and heard the firing on the K. C. ranch in the morning, and divining its import, had ridden to Buffalo, notifying the settlers as he went. Sheriff Angus swore in a posse of 12 men and started about sundown to the relief of his Powder River friends. Meantime, other citizens of Buffalo and countrymen as they came in were being deputized and armed. Jack Flagg and his stepson rode rapidly to Grabing, 30 miles, reaching there at 9 o’clock. Securing three good men as recruits at this point they started back to the assistance of the men they supposed to be still imprisoned at the K. C. Reaching Carr’s ranch at 12 o’clock, they met 12 more men going on the same mission, having learned the news from Terrence Smith while on his way to Buffalo. As the combined force was mounting for the start the regulators were discovered approaching, and the little band prepared to ambush them. Fortunately for the murderers, one of the boys let his gun go off accidentally, when the advancing column took the hint and escaped by making a detour as described in a previous chapter.