Arizona weekly citizen., 1882-05-14
SOLID FACTS.
A Bl; Of History Plainly Told bJ Ono Who was There-DetaHs of Stems Peak Battle With Loco's Band

Thero-DetaIs Of Stems Peak Battle With
 Loeo's Band
 DUNS's CAN'T, PINERY CANYON. May 9.
 EDIToRs CITIZEN: I wish to state a
 Jew facts which know positively to be
 true in regard to Tupper's fight in
 Mexico on April 2S.
 On April 23d Colonel Forsyth with
 six companies of cavalry and some h. dian scouts attacked the hos;iles near
 Stems Peak. and after few hours fight ing, withdrew his entire command. The
 hostiles On th- night of the 23l crossed
 the San Simon Valley and camped about
 six miles north or Gdleyyille. Colonel
 Forsythe took the back trail to ihe agency and followed it about fifteen or
 twenty miles when he mt a company
 of ne Sixth cavalry in pursuit of the
 hosiiles. He then tuned about and re-
 traced his steps. Captain Tupper at
 San Simon and Captain Rafferty at
 Bowie were notified on the night of the -tNn Ol AAAt OA bA4G hCaA Galeyville. Tupper with Mills scouts
 and Rafferty with Doris scouts started
 to Galeyville at once where they arrived
 early ,xt morning. They were in-
 formed at Galeyville that the hostiles
 had passed near GaleyvIlle at about | , o'clock on the previous evening, and
 crossed the valley during the night.
 Tupper and Rafferty rightly concluded
 that 1t would be better to stay at Cave
 Creek during the day and hotly pursue
 the hOstiles at night They left Cave | Creek about 4 o'clock that afternoon
 and went for thirty miles at trot and | gallop, and then followed as rapidly as
 the mountains would permit. Al. Sieber
 who distinguished himself with General Crook, discovered the hostiles on the
 night of the 27th and conducted the troops to their proper places. Du ing
 the night the Indian scouts c awled into
 the same rocks with the hostiles and
 placed themselves between the hOstiles
 and the mair mountain. and there lay
 till the cavalry approached on the op-
 posite side. Just at daylight all the
 scouts began lighting match,s to show
 the cavalry just where they were. Captain Tupper's company was q | plOyed as skirmishers about a detached hill, in itself an impregnable natural fortifcation, and Captain Rafferty yelled out "come on you men of M company" and charged into the rocks where the hostiles con- cealed themselves. This company with 1 in a range less than 100 yards calmly faced several heavy volleys from the | hostiles. Rafferty with his entire com pany would have been anLihilated had l the h1stiles kept cool, but, being ex- | cited, all their bullets passed Ov. the | mems heads. Tupper's company and 1 the Indian scouts fired as rapidly as pos | sible to give RafTerty chance to with draw without losing his entire company. His company withdrew slowly and kept | up the firing and at the same time drove out 74 head of the Inlian stock which were feeling h circle arol1d where the hOstIles were coEcealed. h the charge Raffe { ' had one man killed and one wounded. Al Sieber and six of Raf- feriy's men deserve great credit for the daring they showed in the way they got out of the trap into which the company boldly charged Fifteen dead bucks were visible on the ground and ninemOre found on the following day who had died of their wounds. Seven squaws were killed, making a total of 3l hostiles positively known to be killed. As there were, all told, only thirty-uine soldiers in the fight, Tupper saw that it was impossible to do any more after seven hours' hard fighting, SO he withdrew and went back ten miles where there was water and went into camp. During three days and four nights the command slept but one night, and at the time of the fight not man had closed hls eyes for 33 hours, and the horses had been under saddle during the same time. Shortly after Tupper went into camp, Col. For 1 sythe with about 400 men arrived and having heard of the fight and that the ', Indians were but ten miles away, he wished to push ahead, and told Tupper C hat he wanted his command to go along T llso. Tupper told him that he could {. lot possibly go as his men were com 2 ,letely exhausted from want of rest and t leep, but added that he would catch . lim on the next day. Col. Forsythe with lis 400 men concluded to go into camp lso, so that be W, uld be certain to have 'upper's command along next day. -i The consequence was that Forsythe saw D 70 Indians except some dead ones left \ y Tupper and Garcia, and If captured D quaws. In the evening, after Tupper's ,. ght, the hostiles went down the range \ f mountains, keeping near the foothills. P Dn the following morning their dust in sl he valley was discovered by Col. Garcia. m -ho commanded 275 Mexicans and was i' n his way to JanOs. Pretty soon he ,t iscOvered the Indians themselves and i- " m ambush till the Indians came up hi hen a bloody fight ensued. in which th bout g bucks and 33 squaws were al llled and n squaws captured, among lem being Loco's daughter The Mex o, ans had 3O or 40 m n killed and wound- re l. The band of Warm Spring Indians of virtually destroyed and the few left of i'll join Jun. When Chief Loco begged "' upper's scouts to turn against the sold = rs the scouts would curse him and an- he Ter him with volleys No set of men \ .uld have shown a greater inclination an loyalty. Among other facts. wish to TO- ate that the big scare in Pinery canyon N IS altogether uncallyd for, as there So gre only about ten hostiles passed of rough the canyon, who killed two men br d stole some stock, while at the time co ere were at least 40 men in and about If g canyon. passed through the can- M Ms.' n alone just after everybody left and M aw no Indians nor any sign of them. qu, hink it proper and right that the above ma ts, positively known to be true, should an published that justice may be done to n Hu 'se to whom justice is due. Every CI ng is quiet and easy here now. dis
 Yours truly. Sar