Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-08-17
NEW MExICO.
The Apache Outbreaks,

Las VEGAS August l6tb.-A special to the
Gazette from Socorro says: 1.-THE Indian ex.
element continues undated. Scouts from
| the Pueblo and Magdalena mountains have
| just arrived, and announce the presence of
| large number of savages there. business is
paralyzed, and mining in a great measure
suspended"
SANTA FE, August 16th.-The military
| headquarters have received no report of the
massacre at village eighteen miles from the
Rio Puerco. The bodies of two men killed
Las Avoya ranch, forty miles from Nc
Carty's station, some days ago.
LAS VEGAS, August 16th-A special dis.
patch to the Gazette Saturday night gives the
following details of the massacre. Nothing
any more definite has been received up to this
| hour:
| ALBUQUERQUE, August 15th-11;30 P. N.-Rumnrs
| from good and reliable source reached here late
this evening" stating that the Indians have sacked
another town eighteen miles from the Rio Puerco,
and killed twenty seven persons out of twenty nine.
Two Mexicans escaped but not till after their horses
were shot from under them.
SECOND DISPATCHl
| SANTA Fg, August 16th.-Nana, with about
! forty Indians, some of his own band and
| some Navajoes, is going south. They are
well armed and mounted, The teams of
| Sol. Barth, a merchant of st. Johns, Ari-
iona, were attacked on the 9TH near Rio
| Quemado, 140 miles from here, by eighteen
| Indians. Juan Salas, who sat by Barth's
side, was killed. The latter escaped BY his
horses running away. The Indians killed
two men in Rio Quemado the same day.
Last Thursday the same party of
Indians attacked Barth thirty.6 miles south
| of Belin, but were repulsed. He reports
| that the road is lined with dead oxen and
sheep, and that the Indians have burned all
| the ranches within their reach. The number
of persons killed by Indians in the last ten
days is known to exceed twenty. Barth met
Captain Parker at Cienega last Friday morn
ing, gave him guide, and informed him OF
the direction taken by the Indians. The
Captain, with twenty well-mounted soldiers
started in pursuit, being only six hours be-
hind. The Indians are dressed in citizens
clothing captured from Baco's train, and
cannot be distinguished except at close quar-
tiers. The Navajos at Alamo are believed to
be in with the hostiles as they get share of
the plumber.
Dispatches from Socorro have caused
general excitement Public meetings have
been held, and sixty-one volunteers are ready
to answer the first call. Advices at military
headquarters are that since the fight thirty
FIVE miles west Of Sabinal Captain Parker
has con tinued the pursuit of Nana's band,
and Leutenants Guilfoyle and Wright are
also on the trail with forty men. Nanas
band is going south. They killed three
American miners and two Mexican sheep
herders ten miles from Sorocco. Several
squads of troops under General Hatch are
due south of the band. attempting to prevent
their escape into Chihuahua. So far the
troops have had four encounters with the In
dams. The latter, if found, cannot escape.
| They will doubtless scatter, and go to The
Mescalero reservation, where they will be
safe from pursuit and punishment. The vol
unteer company of Tranquillo Luna is still
out guarding the settlements. 1t is reported
| that another band of Indians crossed the
railroad near Ell Paso. going toward the
| Florida mountains, and detachment of
troops has been ordered to scout these
mountains.
THIRD DIsPATcH.l
DENVER Coll August 16th.-The TT-i-
| 5uaes Cranes, n. NJ, special says: A tele-
gram from Laguna says letter was received
last night from Miguel Chaves, of Alamosa,
dated August 10th, which reports that his
rancho was attacked by Apaches. who drove
off the whites and captured 800 head of cat
tie. The Indians in that vicinity on the 9TH
and 9th instants killed and captured thirteen
men. Two hundred well armed men leave
Cranes tomorrow morning for the vicinity of
Alamosa. fifty miles southwest of here, where
the Indians are still lurking Captain
Parker, with eighteen men, engaged the
Apaches under Mana, twenty seven miles
west of Sabinal, Friday, the 18th. They
fought an hour and a half, resulting in one
man being killed, one missing and three
wounded. The Indian loss was about the
same. The Apsches moved east after the
fight, and are expected to cross the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe road at Carlo creek.
Captain McCarty's, on the 10th. Two Mexi-
can scouts report that two Indians attempted
to rob ranch near old Fort Wingate. One
was killed and the other driven eff.