Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-04-23
AN APACHE OUTBREAK
Twelve Men and Women Butchered Il
the Village of San Miguel.

Twelve Men and Women Butchered in
the Village of San Miguel.
Though additional news of the terrible
Indian massacre in Mexico, says a Den
yer (Col.) special to the Philadelphia
Press of the 18th, has been received in
this city, it is not yet known just when
the Indians rose and under whose leader
ship they were at the time they COM
mitted the horrible Outrages, which have
just come to light. Definite details can
not be ascertained, owing to the heavy
storm which has been raging in Colorado,
Mexico and the adjoining States and
Territories, prostrating telegraph lines.
The first intelligence was received from
Albuquerque, New Mexico, by which it
appears that on Monday last a band of
about so Apaches made their appearance
just outside the village of JameZ, MeXi-
co. The few inhabitants Of the place were
demoralZed, and prepared for instant
flight; the Indians, however, did not seem
disposed to cause any blOOdshed, and
were satisfied with driving off about 80
| head of cattle, the residents of JameZ not
| caring to show any hostility. The marau-
ders went off in the direction of small
hamlet, named San Miguel, on arriving at
which point the Apaches began the
horrible work which has made their
name the synonym for murder, torture
and rapine.
They entered the hamlet with savage
yells, the scattered residents having no
| time for preparation. The men and
women, to the number of about dozen,
were dragged from their homes, despite
| their piteOus appeals, and butchered in
the most horrible manner, in most in
stances the scalps of the victims being
torn from them still alive. After helping
| themselves to no incOnsiderable booty and
! many head of cattle, the Indians then
proceeded on the war path, and some dis
lance from San Miguel overlook pack
train, consisting of several persons and
sixteen animals.
1t was shortly before noon that the
Apaches came in sight of the small and
comparatively unguarded caravan, which
was en- route to Sonora. A miner, whose
name is said to have been Willis, with
his wife and daughter, a nephew II years
old, and another miner named Grub, are
thought to have been the white persons
composing the party, aided by several
MeXicans in the transportation of their
household goods and mustangs.
just as preparations were being made
for the monday halt, the mules having
been unhitched from the wagons, the
Apaches broke over the crest of a low
| hill, and, with fiendish yells, charged down
into the valley. Running hastily for their
rifles the men, for few moments, made
a spirited defense, but it was not long be-
fore every white and Mexican but one
was lifeless. The stock was lassoed and
cOrralled, the wagons sacked and then
burned, and the mems CORY corpses
scalped and hacked with tomahawks in
the most horrible way. The fate of the
women is unknown, but in the hands of
the Apaches death is far preferable to
captivity for a woman.
No plausible conjecture can be indulg-
ed in as to who led the Apaches in the
massacre. 1t is known that the outlaw
chiefs, Ju and Geronimo, were seen in the
neighborhoOd of the scene of the massacres
with a number of warriors, and it is be-
lieved that they were the perpetrators of
these Outrages.