The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-04-18
APACHE OUTBREAK.
THE FATAL INDIAN RAIDS
oa Huno.lllO-1h, C.u. of the Present oatSr.ai
In A,Ilea-TAs ArIl,EA Reservation lie.
llersd 10 bO S,ears from Attack.
The x,I'sAa Troops Useless.

PHILADELPHIA, April 17.-A correspond.
ent Of The Pres telegrsphs from Ell Paso,
Texas, the following account OF tho recent
Apache outbreak: The Indian outbreak
OF 1883 is likely to be more fatal to life,
more disastrous to property and moro
memorable in Mexican history than any
since the Apache raids Of 1873. The sick
ening details OF thesayages' work at Pal.
mos ranch have just been received. The
number OF whites killed at Hermosillo Is
seyenty.eight, 50 fur as known, but q large
number are believed to have been massa.
cred. General. Crock and the Mexican
General, Tencres, have been in consulta.
ton for several days in the vicinity Of No.
gales, Mexico. The country is rugged and
the war.like Apacnes are scattered over
hundreds OF miles OF oflerritory. Their nun.
ber probably does not exceed four hun,
dred all told. No one knows their exact
strength and the mountainous country is
very bad to penetrate with troops. The
attack on AHermosillo was made by a
marauding band, which tortured and
murdered men, subjecting their bodies 10
indescribabie indiguities.
THE SCENE or TIE ATTACK.
Hsrmosillo is an old, old city, left from
the days OF the Spaniards, three centuries
ago. Over it hang clear, unchauging, cop
per colored skies; around itstretches vast
plain glitteripg in thetropic sun glare. On
the North and Northwest horizon are
mountain masses which look like piles OF
sunm thunder clouds. Among the mesas,
or table lands, which'at distance seem to
blend with the plains, though in reality
rising far above them, aowsa living stream,
q rarity in the Southern country. Along its
banks grow groups OF palms and cactus, the
guaya and the Indian fig. In this
little spot Of vegetation was the
Palmos ranch where the massacre began
last Tuesday. Nosoldiers within hundreds
OF miles, and more women than men for
victims. One or two who escaped and
found General Carbo at chihuahua, say
that all the rest were murdered. Men were
suspended by the wrists over ground fires
and women, stripped OF oftheirclothing were
tied TO stakes and made witnesses TO the
tortures OF husband and fathers. The
Apache Chief, Juh, did not take part in the
barbarities, but seems to have witnessed
the atrocities or at least permitted them to
90 on. t'-'.. W
n z THE PRESENT SITUATION. 3
= About year ago some 200 renegade
Apache bucks, with their families, escaped
into the Sierra Modere 10 Northern Mexico.
From this hiding place they have made
frequent excursiousin' the surrounding
country, numbering and pilIuging. Some
time since, General CArbo, OF Chihuahua,
moved on the region infested by these
renegades with 1000 Mexican soldiers.
The Indians, under Jauh aud Loco,
to divert attention, recently raid
ed Aliz1na with twenty.eiRht braves,
striking the neighb0rhood OF Tombstone,
and then reappearing in several places,
evidently for the purpose Of drawing re.
cruits from the San Carlos reservation, but
without success, Judge McComas and
others were slain in this movement, and
the Indians then returned into the noun:
tain iastness OF Mexico, losing one killed
and one captured All the depredations
came from these Indians, but tue frontiers.
men made pretext for charging the peace
able Indians on the San Carlos II servation
with being guilty OF the outrages.
COWBOYS REINFORCING ArAcHEs.
Miners and cowboys, stimulated BY in.
terested parties who want an Indian war
to get possession Of rich pasturing and
mining lands IN the San Carlos reserva.
ton, threatened to attack it and kill the
peaceable red men. General Crook has
lost telegraphed for the Indians on the
reservation TO protect themselves from such
an attack, and he does not believe that
there will be any uprising in Arizona OF
the, Indians, even II they are attacked by
frontiesmen. The only pending danger,
be believes, is repeated raids by renegade
Apaches in Mexico, against which Mexi'
can troops are operating. As long as they
are In hostile attitude there will be dan.
ger, and investment and travel here is be-
ing seriously disturbed by the pending hos.
tility. General Crook does not conceal. that
the situation Is serious and that scattered
prospectors and mining camps are in dan.
ger until the hostile Indians are subdued,
but he denies that the friendly Indians are
on the wartpath or are likely to go.
AwEsr yIRGINIAN's VIEWS.