Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-06-20
. MAssAORES IN COLORADO,
Fearful AtrOcities-The People panic
Strfcken-The President PetittOnec'
for Protection.

Tor EFotccAtohs
From the Chicago Tribune, June Is.
Capt. d. B. Slower, Thomas Rowe, Chas.
Whitaker. F. w. Jones, Fred. Steinhauer,
A. Shelf n. S. Ronzahoff, J. 6. Frank and
Mai. Anderson arrived yesterday evening
in this CITY from Denver, they having been
passengers in the coach which made the trip
succeeding that which the Indians attacked
on the plains, two miles from the Wiscon-
sin Rancho. and about one hundred miles
west of Denver, Colorado territory. We
gathered several details from a gentleman
of the company Of the outrages committed
by the Indians in that section. 1t is stated
In regard 10 the attack made upon the mail
coach mentioned yesterday, that the hrst
shot brought down the driver, man named
Kilbourne. well known and very popular
on the route. His body fell into the boot
and bled profusely from the wound, satu-
rating the mail box with his blood. Ii is
supposed that he died almost instantly.
There was only one passenger inside the
coach, the Rev. Mr.. Fuller, who had joined
at Denver. He jumped up to gain posses
sion of the reins, which had fallen from
the drivers hand, to guide the horses. The
animals were, however, 80 much frightened
that they upset the coach before he could
gain control over them, throwing him into
the gulley, where he remained, as If dead,
thinking that the only way by which he
conld escape the Indians, some of whom
were near him, though the attention Of all
seemed TO be bent upon the coach. They
broke the vehicle in pieces; broke open the
box aad examined the letters carefully,
breaking open such as seemed, from their
thickness OF weight, TO contain money,
scattering the debris of their spoil upon
the plain. Having completed their work
of pillage, they went away and Mr.. Fuller
then crawled round the bluff and returned
90 Denver.
Hearing of the attack, party went out
next day from the station and brought in
the remains Of the coach and the mail,
which was sent on the following day, with
a party Of men and which wasagain attacked
as stated yesterday.
Capt Slower and party were not attacked
simply because they formed train of three
wagons. and being well armed the Indians
were afraid 10 encounter them, but they met,
il is reported, little beyond, another vehi
Gle proceeding westward, through which the
Indians had fired, a ball striking against
the head Of gentleman inside, killing him
instantly. Our informant also states that
everything in that country is in disOrgan-
lied condition; that the people Of Colorado
territory are in a state of the widest ex-
element; that they are universally afraid
that they will be murdered If they stay
there. They are abandoning their ranches
in every direction, not only depopulating
the country, but rendering il a matter of
considerable difficulty for the mail trains to
gather forage.
The Indians are reported to be forming
in large parties and securing the country,
and rnmors Of outrages in every part were
heard by Captain Slower and his compan-
ions as they passed over the route 1t was
stated that the Indians at present in arms
were early expecting large re-eniorcements
from the tribes of the north that the
Cheyennes had promised TO join them in a
body, and that when this aid arrives It is
intended to sweep everything before them,
and drive the white man ont OF the
country-nothing else than which will
satisfy them. They are particularly
savage against the telegraph, which they
look upon as an innovation that Cannot be
tolerated, and have sense enough 90 know
that il threatens the speedy settlement OF
whites all along its track. They are reported
to have torn down the wires for consid-
cradle distance, and to have carried the
wire many miles away, 80 that the workers
cannot recover il when they come TO repair
the damages.
The day before Captain Slower and his
party left, Mr. Heenan, the Division Agent
was shot short distance west of Denver,
and an employe Of the company, named
Nichols, was also killed at about the same
place.
The following dispatch, signed by A. c.
Hunt, Governor; George W. Lane, Super
intendent United States Branch Mint w
III. Lessig, Surveyor General; T.. c.
Holmes, Register United States Land Of
fee; c. Il. Clements, Receiver u. S. Land
Office; Moses Hallett, Chief Justice; VIM.
X. Gorsline, Associate Justice G.. w.
Chamberlain, United States Attorney; u.
b. Holloway, United State Marshal; Geo.
w. Brown, United States Collector; A.
Sagendorf, Postmaster, Denver, and Frank
Hall, Secretary of Territory, was sent from
Denver, under date of June 4th
10 HIS Erocllcnoy. ARdra0 johnson, Pres
idenf Of hc Unitoi States: "We are
menaced by hostile Indians, our lines
of communication cut of, the United
States mails captured, coaches and sta
tions destroyed and the occupants muir
dered. private trains burned, and the men
murdered aud scalped.
"The acts of peace are suspended, and
the people suffering from feeling Of inse-
curity. which paralyses every branch Of in-
dustry, and all from foe, the lives of the
whole OF which are, and should be, consi-
dered by the authorities as worthless com
pared with that Of our American citizen
This we have suffered more or less iSr
some time. and yet no adequate protection
or relief has been afforded us. In the
name of God and humanity We make this
appeal 70 YOU, and ask that the too long
temporiEing policy toward these
devils shall cease, and that You
will at once direct that prompt and deei-
siye measures be taken for the protection
Of the country"