The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-09-08
ANOTHER TRAGEDY.
General Carr and fills Command of One
Hundred and Twenty Men Massacred
by the White Mountain Indlans-in APP
palling Tale OF Horror.
SAN l:RANc1scn. Sr.1en

san FRANCISCO, September =:
Iuscon dispatch has ndvices from
Fort Grant to the following effect Three
rouriers have come into Camp Thomas,
all bringing the same news that General
Carr and command have all been masSa-
cred by White Mountain Indians, thirty
five miles from Camp Apache. One
hundred and ten men and seven oili-
GERS were killed The officers must
be General Carr. Captain iicnt;g.
i.icutcnantS carter, Gordon, Stanton and
Orncs ana Dr. McCrcevy The White
Mountain Indian reservation is located
about one hundred and sixty miles north
of Wilcox, near the line of New Mexico.
The tribe numbers about fifteen hundred
III ali, anu they can muster four hundred
warriors. This is the only tribe of
Apachcs which have not bccn whipped
irn suhjcction. They were moved in
1870 into the San Carlos reservation but
were recalled and returned to their old
hunting grounds. where they have heen
ever since.
WAsrnNGro>, September J-The fol-
lowing telegram was received ut the war
department this morning by Acting Ad-
jutant General McKccver, from General
Mcdonnell, dated September I'd The
following has been received from the
commanding general Of the department
OF Arizona, dnted to-day: Tiffany tole-
graphs n report from the sub agency. that
an Indian named Mickey, brought word
that number of chiefs arc coming in
with their bands, but that Pedro with all
his band and others are on the warpath
That Cars command, including himself,
six other officers and siNty-four enlisted
men, were killed day before yesterday
Also, that PedroS mon had killed seven
or eight men, including an expreSsman,
between Apache and Thomas No word
from Apache, the limo being down and
the wires cnt. Biddlc was at work YES
tcrday and last night getting troops
across the Gila with difficulty, anu push
ing for Apache"
CHICAGO, September IA special to
the Times ilom Tuscon, Arizona, con-
firms the report of tho massacre OF two
companies Of cavalry under General Carr
by the Apachcs near Camp Thomas.
Lieutenant CruZe was shot bv 'melli-
cine man" whom he Was trying to ar
rest, whcreupun the troops opened fire
and killed the medicine man. The mas.
sacro then began, the Indian scouts fir
ing on tho white troops, and nearly
every white was killed. Three conpa-
nics OF calvary and company OF scouts
under iucrton arc on route rs reinforce
mcnt. No courier has vet come through
and all are supposed TO have been killed.
y dispatch received from General Will
cox this morning says that he has rccciv-
ed news that n few of General Carr's COM
mand escaped at Cabs Creek, which is
iorty miles west oil Fort Apache. Those
who escaped are lighting theii way to
Fort Apache, but their success is doubt
ful. Pedro's band attack ed Fort Apache,
but the commander of the department
thinks he must have been repuised, and
that he now holds the canon through
which the road from Camp Thomas 10
Fort Apache passes.
At the town Office Of the United States
army no definite information has been
receircd regarding the reported massacre
OF General Carr and his command. but
the officers infer that the report is essen
tally correct, and that an outbreak on a
serious scale has taken place a compa-
McDermont, and another ut Camp Hal
leck. Nevada, and a company Of the
eighth infantry, at Benetin, have been
ordered TO start at once for Arizona