Cincinnati daily press. [volume] (Cincinnati [Ohio]) 1860-1862, 1861-03-02
Att, SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 2. 1861.

Attack Upon an Overland Stage in Aris
zOna-TraIn Destroyed By IndIans-Bight
Murdered Men Lyme By the Roadside.
The ArizoHidn has the following:
On Tuesday evening, February 3, the Over-
land stage, going East, took from here eight
passengers. Among the number was the
agent, Mr.. Buckley, Lieutenant Cook, Eighth
Infantry, U. s. A., and Mr.. w s. Grand, of
Tucson. They arrived at Apache Pass near
midnight, on Wednesday, and were fred
upon some two miles this side of the Station,
by what appeared to be large body of
Indians; the night being very dark, only
one man, the driver, King Lyon, was hit,
although some fifteen rounds were fred.
The ball took effect in his leg, and broke it.
One mule was killed. and another badly
wounded but after cutting out the former,
they were enabled TO reach the Station with
the remaining mules. It was about one
o'clock on Thursday morning when they
arrived.
The company of Infantry from Fort
Buchanan, under Lieutenant Bascom, had
arrived on Monday. He held a conference
with Cachus, and his braves, demanding the
surrender of the Mexican captive and the
stock stolen from Wards rancho, an account
OF which will be found in another column.
Cachus was willing to return the stolen
stock, but would not consent to restore the
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the Chief and six other Indians prisoners,
intending to hold them as hostages. Oachus,
however, effected his escape, after des.
perate rush through the guard, while the
soldiers were securing the others. The next
day the Indians came around in large mum.
bers, and hoisted a white flag. After some
hesitation, Mr.. Charles w. Culver, Station
keeper, and his assistant Mr.. Welch, with
MIR. Jas. f. Wallace, driver on the line, pre-
suming too much on their friendly relations
with the Indians, resolved to go out and con-
fer with the savages.
The Indians, who frequently use the white
flag only as decoy, no sooner got these
confding men within their grasp than they
attempted to seize them. They succeeded in
capturing Wallace. Culver escaped, wounded,
after knocking down two Indians. Welch
also escaped, and got to the corral Of the
station, when he was shot dead. The next
day the Indians appeared, leading Wallace,
with his aims bound behind his back, and a
rope about his neck. On the same day, Mr..
John A. Ward, the guardian of the boy who
had been captured, and soldier, were
A. B. Culver, brother Of the wounded man,
and conductor on the stage which arrived at
the Pass from the East, was induced to ride
an express to Tucson, to give information of
| the state of affairs. An escort of soldiers
sent to Fort Buchanan for medical aid and
more soldiers, accompanied him as far as
| Dragon Springs. He rode the l25 miles in
twenty four hours, changing horses at every
station. A short distance this side of the
station be found the remains of a wagon
train, and the bodies Of eight men murdered
! by the Indians. Two of the bodies were
chained to the wagons, and bore the appear
| ance Of having been burned at the stake
| All the animals had been taken away. The
road was barricaded with rocks for over two
miles, but Mr.. Culver will return in the next
stage and put on a. force of forty men to
remove the distractions.