The Phoenix herald., 1882-09-08
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Northern sonora IA a state OF
Terror.

OF our sister commonwealth are q
/ the most narrowing and alarming
character. The entire population is
demoralixed, many of the bravcst
and best have been killed, fields laid
waste and homes DIES plated. There
IS hardly a doubt but that the say
> ages have skirmish line thrown
out from San Carlos to New Mexico
and we'll into the State of Chihua-
hua, and along the frontier west to
the Santa Cruz river. San Carlos,
of course, is the nursery from which
the army IS reinforced aud the d.
poi ficm which ammunition and
; AIMS are procured. Although tie
hostiles are mostly. ferating on the
soil of Sonora, the discarded cart
1idge shells can be found in abun-
dance in their trail, and are distinct
" marked =. S. This is suggestive
and fully proves that the OF enals of
tie Cnitcd States are Furnishing tie
material with which the lives of civ
ilized people are taken. The death
of Tom johnson is still in the
minds of our readers, and only two
days ago we chroniclod the brutal
killing Of 70 r Americans near Ca
napca. Since then The rel tiends
have kept up their lick, aud scarcely
a day passes hat ii. inns of III. If
uAtamrd hate are not made to bite
tue dust.
Information received in this city
yesterday is of more sanguinary
ch aracter shan any for some time
We are in possession Of the facts of
slaughter, about thirty-fve miles
south Of Calabasas, on Thursday |
last, when an ntire family of three
generations. consisting Of nine mem
bcrs in al, were ushered to the pres
ence of their Creator in a few |
minutes. The name of the family
was Castillo. and comprised the Old
grandfather and grandmother, near
" eighty years old, their son and his
wife and five children. The fiends
surrounded tie house While they
were at dinner, stole n0iselessly TO
the doors and ruth cssly slaughtered
them all while they were ct sitting
around the table pa1taking of their
frugal meal. None were spared. old
and young alike met the same fate.
a cousin of tie family, who had al
ways lived wi them, was tempo
rar;Iy absent in the fields, and was
returning to dinner when he beheld
the APP che holiday. Being IN
armed and powcrless, he secreted
Himself and heheld the sickening
sight. Our informant, r. c. Win
ers, who reached the city yesterday
from Santa Cruz, village In Some /,
"a, about sixteen miles from the
line, states that he heard the surviv-
or recite the narrowing tale. The
re fcDds were armed with repeating
rifles and four of them did the exc c
cution, not ceasiBg in their bloody
W rll while a spark Of life remainef '
in any of their victims. When the C
bellish decd was performed the t
fiends raised o shout and cheered a
themselves. The bodies were pulled II
out. scalped and manIled, with n
many symptoms of glee and rejoie- n
ng. The house was then ransacked n
and every portable article confs- Il
,afed. The corral was then visited o
md two horses and yearling calf r.
The latter was killed al d II
art Of its flesh packed on horse Il
Jack. Then another yell was in p
lulged in, the house anG corral fired, p
md the tiepds departed. They num- W
Jered sixteen and continued their in
way south ward, in the direction of II
he Magdalena river. As soon as tn
hey were well out of sight the ter pr
flied klnsman crept from his place la
f concealment and went to the des- ~
late home. The house being of IS
dohcs, with a mud roof, he found I'll
o difficulty IN extir gushing the az
ames, but the corral AMI sheds ch
ere burned TO the ground. He i'm III
ediately took his departure On 10
rot to the nearest settlcment-San- lr'
Cruz-some miles distant. Here, kn
hen he reciied his direful story, the VI
-eafest excitement prevailed Near IN
al tic citizens OF the adjoining III
ttlementS had collected. and all nj
&c arms that could be procure were vi
Immediately put into the hands of GU
'lunteers. Who started southwark
warn the settlers. They had left
e town nearly half Il day when
T. Winters started for this place.
le greatest anxiety prevailed, as Pr
ere are several isolated ranches the
nth of the scene OF their former for
lughter There is not a horse run to
ng in the Santa Cruz valley, as the SOL
,aches had carefully run off all ont
ut could be seen. me
From all accounts the hostiles are wa
Tided into bands numbering from loo
e to twenty, and are exhibiting 4
re audacify than formerly They we
emily make their raids in the day {.
ne, and apparently meyer rest as NIL
y pursue their work of blood salt
II day ,snd night. "
Further, authentic information re a IA
we'd yesterday, states that six Mex met
MS were killed on Saturday, be- tell
zen the Cananea and Hnuchuca thai
unlains. There were eight of has
m riding over the prairie looking hon
some stock. when the Apaches, all
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