Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1881-04-26
SEND III TEE FACTS.
szssturae Inflammation Wanted Regarding
1z.izaa Troxa3 :n Eastern Eevaxa ia,
1869

In the Census Reports of 1860
noted the capture ana burning OF Dr,
Creek mail station, on the Overland
stage ROAD about thirty miles east o
Austin, in Lander county. 1t Is Iurthe
noted that the occurrence was in May
1850; that there We're two men killed
who were employed in carrying thu
mail between Salt lake and California
tat they were attacked before getting
~ in the morning, one Of them being
instantly killed and the other receiving
I: wound from the effects Of which he
. sji'rl in d feW hours; and that the names
, Of tie men murdered were John APP
platlte, aged - years, and Ralph NJ.
E."zinr, aged Il years.
/ 20 this Henry Butterfeld, OF Nye
/ county, ati!5 the additiona! Informal
tinn: TaaJ I'll is 1IcCaniis and w. L.
3 Ill Were. also AT the station at the time
auI made their escape; that the In
dians who committed the act were a
renegade band % Humboldt Shoshones,
KNOWN rs the White Knives" and
that there WAS TIT one attack made upon
A30i station IL 1860.
This is al clear enough, but the fol-
lowing account, from Charles Stebbins
Of Austin, throws the whole subject
into a condition Of chaos, from which
we ask who ever can unrnVel the mJs-
terry, 10 be SO kind as to do 50, and
show us the way out Of this historic
Itbyrinth.
MIR. srEBBINs' ACCOUNT.
Charles ,5tebijins was sole trader in
1850 at Ruby Valley Station, by
authority Of the Indian Department,
and consequently in position to know
the matters concerning which he
speaks. He says that in the fall of
1850 the Indians attacked the Pony
Express at Dry Geek Station, which
was thirty miles east Of Austin. The
sta ton was stOcaade with roof Of
tllatcil. 1t was nearly dark and II @
men - Montgom' ry, SilaS McCanlis
and w. l.. Ball, bad just got their sup
per and were in the cabin. The In |
dians first drove off the stock, and then |
at tackled the cabin by shooting lighted |
arrows onto the roof. When the men
found the cabin was going 20 Rurn they |
took Il pistol in each land and opened |
he door to make a rush through, when |
the Indians fired a volley of arrows, one
If which struck Montgomery in the
abdomen WoUnding him badly, and
hey fell back and shut the door.
knew he would have to
lie, and begged his comrades to shoot
,im, which they refused to do; but
"king one of his pistols the y were just
,pening the door, when the wounded
nan ended his own miseries by shoot
ne himself in the head. The survivors
tttii IUHNti citt, All i!iS idpiuiS vi Stttil |
ide as they went. broke through the
indians lines and started for Roberts
'reeh, thirty-twO miles away, which
hey reached in the night, having kept
I'D 4 running fight with the Indians
nearly ali the way. There was stone
abin at Roberts Creek and they ex-
ected to find six men there, instead Of
Which they found the station deserted |
y whites and surrounded by Indians.
hey managed to enter the place with
ut being discovered, where they found
half loaf of bread. Not considering
safe to remain here they left before
aylight for Diamond Springs, twenty
We miles further east, which they
cached in the afternoon of the next
ay. Here they found the three men
cad who had occupied the place, and
,eir bodies horribly mutilated. From
lis they went on over Diamond Noun F
in to Stebbins' place in Ruby Valley,
citing there the next morning. 6
Mr.. Stebbins, did not these events
lat you relate occur one year later 1
have certain evidence that it was in
ovember or December, 1861, that the