The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1884-04-22
BUTcHEaED By INDIANS.
The Mnssacye Of Men md Women at San
~ ...HE- Miguel.

Miguel.
DENVER, COL, April 2l.-Thoush addi-
tional news Of the terrible Indian mas-
sacre in Mexico he's been received in this
city, it is not yet known ius. when the In
dians rose and under whose leadership
they were at the time they committed the
horrible outra2es, which have Just come 10
light. Definite details cannot be sscer.
tanned, owing to the heavy storm which
hes been rsging in Colorado, Mexico and
the adjoining states and territoric1, J, pros
trating telegraph lines.
The first intelligence was received from
Albuquerque, New Mexico, by which it
appears tnat on Monday last band OF
abou! eighty Apaches made their appear
snce Just outside the village Of Jsmez,
Mexico. The few inhabitants Of the place
we're demoralized and prepared for instant
Eight; the Indians, however, did not seem
disposed to cause any bloodshed, and we're
satisfed with driving of about filly head of
cattle, the residents OF Jsmez no: caring to
show any hostility. The marauders went
of in the direction Of small hamlet called
San Miguel, on arriving at which point the
Apaches began the horrible work which
hes made their name the synonym for
murder, torture and rapine.H
THE SLAUGHTER AT San MIGUEL.
They entered the hamlet with savage
yells, the scattered residents having no
time iorpreparation. The men and women,
to the number OF about dczsn, were drag.
ged from their homes, despite their piteous
appeals, and butchered in the most inhu.
man manner,,in mes! instances the ecalps
Of the victima being torn from them still
alive. After helping themselves to no in.
considerable booty and many head OF cattle,
the Indians then proceeded on the wa:path,
and come distance from San Miguel over
tool a pack tTain, consisting Of several
persons and sixteen animals.
1T was shortly before noon that the
Apaches cams in sight Of the small and
comparatively unguarded CARAVAN, which
was en- route to Sonora. 4 miner, whose
name ia said to have been Willis, with bis
vile aud daughter, q nephew II years old,
and another miner named Grubb, are
thought to have been the white parsons
composing the party, aided by several
Me1icans in the transportation c. the;r
household goods On uuassDEs. 'ls'5ss
rax xsAyiess' ElEsDIsu euARaE.
JuA as preparations wers being made
for the MONDAY halt, the mules having
been unhitched from the wagons, the
Apaches bsoke over the crest o! a low hill,
and, with tieudish yelis, charged down
into ths valley. Running hastily TOR their
rides the msn, for a few moments, made o
spirited detelso, but it was not long until
every white and mexican bu! one was life
lees. The stock was lsssoed and co1ralied,
the wsgons sacked and then burned, and
the mems CORY corpses scalped and hacked
with tomahawks in the moet horrible way,
The late Of the women is pukno-n, but in
tho hands Of the Apaehes death is far pre-
ie!able to captivity for q woman. H..
10 plausible conjecture can be INDUCED
in as TO who led the Apaehss IN the mas
aacre. i is Enova ths. the outlaw chieis
Ju and Geronimo, we're seen in the neigh
borhood OF the scene OF the maaacres viii
q number OF warriors, and i. is believet
that they were the perpetrators Of thes'
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