Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-09-05
BETRAYED BY HIS SCOUTS.
THE TKEACHEkY WHICH LED TO THE
CARR MASSACRE.

BETRAYED BY HIS SCOUTS.
THE TKEACHEkY WHICH LED TO THE
CARR MASSACRE.
A Conspiracy Between tho White Mountain
Band and Col. Carr's Scouts-The Troops
led i0tO an Ambush and Ruthlessly
Murdered.
There is no longer room for reasonable
| doubt that Col. Carr aud all his men have
been treacherously killed by the savages.
The report that the Indian scouts attached
to the expedition proved traitors and began
| the massacre by firing Oh our troops is also
| confirmed. The country in which the mas
| sacre occurred is peculiarly fitted for the
| scene of tragedy such as this. 1t consists
| of succession of deep canons and gorses.
which are admirably adapted to serve as
ambuscades for the Indians. The noun.
| tains are heavily timbcrcd with pine and
| fir trees and a few men placed in the right
position could easily destroy an entire bat
| talon of soldiers, when the troops were
decOyed into the ambush. The couriers
| who have come into Camps Grant and
Thomas describe the locality where the
| massacre took place as 4 narrow valley
near a canon, the sides of which are heavily
timbered, and thus afford Il fine covering
for a party in ambush. Col. Carr had
trusted to his Indian scouts to inform
him of any ambuscade in his front and as
they reported none in the canon, he blindly
| advanced until he reached the spot where
he met his death. There can be no doubt
| that the massacre was the direct result of
| a conspiracy between the scouts and the
hostile Apac!les, and that Col. Carr and
his men were deliberately led to the
slaughter pen by the scouts.
The firing was begun by the scouts, and
Lieut.. Cruise was the first victim. AS soon
he fell, and before the smoke from the
rifles of the scouts had cleared away, the
White Mountain Apaches arose from
their ambush in the brushwOod of tie
canon and opened fire upon the troops in
| an opposite direction. Col. Carr and
his command were thus between two
fires, and the colonel seems, from the ac-
counts of the cOurie-s, to have become
perfectly bewildcrcd by the suddcnncss of
this double attack. Before he had time
to collect his thoughts or to give proper
orders to his troops in this terrible
emergency the White Mountain Indians
and his own treachcrOus scouts rushed in
upon the doomed band from opposite di.
rectiOns, and the work of destruction was
soon completed. Not member of the
WV OothlbIlCo ustO do SCO UCCH lCSIIU llOLl
and it is believed that not single soldier
escaped to tell the story of the massacre.
The reports thus far are all from friendly
Indians, no white cOuriers having, up to
this time, come in, but the commanding
officers at Camps Grant and Thomas have
tho utmost confidence in the Indians who
have brought tho news, and they announce
their belief in the story. A great many
Indians have come through aud they all
give the same account of the massacre.
There is scarcely room for particle of
doubt that the brave Carr and his gallant
force have been exterminated.
There is q well-grounded fear in Arizona
that the uprising will be more general than
it was at first thought to be, from the fact
that Chief Pedro, who has gone on the
war-path, is an Indian leader of unusual
good sense and judgment. 1t is believed
that he would never have joined in the
movement unless he had been urged to it
by his followers and had received assurances
of support from the other branches of the
Apache tribe.
The original cause of all the trouble
seems to have been the strange hallucina-
tiOn of the medicine men, who pretended
that they were able to raise departed chiefs
from the grave, to lead the Apachcs on to
victory over the whites, and the suDcrsti-
tion of the Indians. who believed in their
power to do this. In August of last year
band of White Mountain Indians, under
Chief PctOne, who lived about 800 miles
north Of Camp Apache, killed chief
named Diab!c, Of the same tribe,
who lived Oh the San Carlos res
ervation. Upon tho news of his
death, Diablc's band, accompanied by
tho agency police, started for Camp
Apache to revenge him. They found Pc.
tone and his band camped in strong po-
sitiOn on ChilO Creek, and were unable to
dislodge him. Soon after, however, Pc
tone was killed by members of another
band, and Diable was avenged, though
not by his own band. Soon after this two
chiefs OF different bands of the White
Mountain tribe fought u duel, aud both
were killed. These three braves, the
medicine men pretended that they could
raise from the dead, to lead tho Apaches 20
victory, and drive the white man from the
country. Noclaydit Klcuna is the name of
the principal medicine man. Col. Carr
had orders from Gen. Wilcox, who saw
tho influence which they were exerting
over the White Mountain Indians, to ar
rest them all, and it was in obedience to
this order that the expedition started from
Camp Apache. The Indian scouts seem
to have believed in the medicine men, too,
and to have determined on preventing their
arrest. They did this by betraying Col.
Carr and his command to the Indians in
ambush, and themselves giving the signal
for the massacre by making the attack.
The situation of Col. Carr's wife, who
remains at Camp Apache, is particularly
distressing. She has not only lost her
husband, bnt her son, who was with his
father ut the time of the massacre. He |
was 1S years of age, and had recently re-
turned from the East, where he had been |
attending school. to pass his vacation with
his parents. The Mexican. authorities, |
who have a force of about 400 men on the |
border, have been informed of the out
breaks, and have expressed Il willingness |
to look out for the enemy in the neighbor-
hood of the border, and to do all in their |
power to aid the American forces.
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