The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1885-11-12
RED DEVILS
oUrDnrAK IN nav Mr,Ioc
Attack on Vanity ear nsmis<~0s
nefesr's risshy Hishi..Nurda %
fpihsa and liia Wile.-A WI
Known scout Kiiled-.A
foidior's Ci0st Call,

EL PAso, Nov. Q.-laueulal.f- Ful
details Of An air0cious uuirdor " ipS
diana near Doming, New Meklci have
Just reached this oity.
a man Rnd.his wifs By tho nsne Of
Splkes, late OF stdhlla, Missouri, !.
aud smother family, whose nam THn
HERALD's informant thought was
Merosr, consisting ola man, III wifs
and an ll-yaar-old boy occupied nd-
jAcen, houses upon y rAueh ID miles
west OF Doming.
Spikea snd his wife went 20 Iliminik !
in buggy yesterday mornlAs ouS
business, 20 return in too enning.
At noon, AZ tho Mercer amily
sat down 10 dinner, Mr.. Mercer heard
n arrange noiRo oufslde. Turnhg his
head he saw an Indian Just outside the
window, with gun lsvelsd : his
head, and he fell forward ON thl floor I,
rs tho gun was discharged. AS ttbshot
shattered tho window aud huiisditssif
IN tho wall, 30 sprans across ,hdroom
for MS gun and 20 find srumber u In-t
dams IA the yard. He hurrl@ hiA
wife aud child 70 the attic, whiieIiAh
log tie crowd through the wAdog.
10 ia positive he killed two, tough
they we're carried away.
Tho Indians thea pluadsrod and
burned his absent nalghbos's iouso,
and when they could not take bin, set
his house on fire. He hurried bib vito
and child out the back door, bling
them 20 crawl of, which they dd, he
continuing the fight, aud exlosing Z,
himself 10 attract the attention pr tho,
redskins from his faulty.
Tho boy was discovered sud shot
through the hip. The mother, unseen,
dragged him 10 somo rocks, whidh she
piled around him. Covering HIM
with her droas, aud telling him
to mako no noise, she stole awty to-
wards town. Whom hardly hal way(
she saw from a distance tho buggy Of
Spikes and his wife attacked Ny thu
Indians. both of them killed the iuggy
demolished and thu horses takene
A short distance on she met a qux4
OF aoldiers, to whom she tolf all.
They put her or a horse and aett hen ,
to ,owo, while they hastened % the
scsne, to fiud tho Indians gone, Mercer
lying in the roar of the yard
Frustrated by exhaustion and
excitement, aud his homo
burned to the ground. Thoy bund
the child ia left by lie mother.
ao-, xu0,.. hnfI, 20 m
Dsming. to tho wife, who, ,ndt ex-
expecting TO sec either again, wast
oveIjoyed. AL ara now receivlnk the
best of attention ut the hands * the
people.
>Ths dead bodies OF Spikes AMI his
wife were saken to Deming, where
they arc being embalmed, and Will be
sent to Sedalia. The woman aftdr be-
ing killed, had been horribly Outraged,
then disemboweled.
The people are much excited over an
other killing by Indians %
milss west OF here. A soldier arrived
by tho Southern Pacific at Q o'cloGk|
this morning, who was badly wounded
by tho indians yesterday. He,gives
full account of the Indian campaign.
a Gordon of military posts hsyebeen
established along the MexicanN
border IN New Mexico. Fri.
day evening a famous IudiapbH
scout, well known here, was The bearer \
of dispatches between two Of these A
swnmps IS miles apart, with q
soldier az Escort. He delivered the
dispatches and returning yestsrda2
morning, while passing through "
vino, tho scout discovered fo3
Indisns in front who, before any
thing could DO done, fired, killing t.
scout, aud shooting the soldier through Y
TIVE inches 4 ooye his breast. His horsS I
ran ard Che soldier fell off. The In
diana, surprising him dead, hastened W
catch tho horse, whom the voldies4
crawled off and walked . mill ~
ranch. lernOon
From here, whsn in the, s.gises 81
he saw In the distance the hoacuring
Mercer and Spikcs burning, Pre- to-
burro, no ,nde.sit way \
Cambria, the nearest ts.sand
station, distance of is mil4ts ar
took tho night train hore. Oni wns
riving at tho depot, q carriagev las, \
procured and he was sent to Ft. ivy, 4
above towf. He Ia now resting d
though quite weak.