Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-12-30
THE AMBUSCADE.
Particulars of the Recent Attack by
Apache HOsti1es.

Apache HOst1Ies.
Ell PAsO, Tex, Dec. 23.-Part1es
who arrived here Tuesday evening
from Silver City bring additional par
ticulars of the disastrous surprise OF
regular troops, last Saturday, by a
band of Apache guerillas. Two officers
and four troopers were killed outright.
and two officers dangerously wounded.
The detachment comprised thirty five
men all told, being a portion of troop
G, Eighth Cavalry, stationed regularly
at San Antonio. They were quietly
marching through rocky defile in the
mountains at about 2 o'clock in the
afternoon, when suddenly, without a.
note of warning, the report OF a dozen
rifles from the rocks above echoed
along the mountains. The red devils
had secreted themselves behind high
rocks, and there laid in wait
for the unsuspecting soldiers. The
attack was so sudden, so well
directed and timed that the troops
were throwrsinto a state Of great dis
order. Their horses became unman-
ageable, and the little cavalcade got
away from the spot as quickly as pos
sible. leaving the dead behind. Scarce
" an Indian was to be seen, and only
the smoke of their rifles told where the
Apaches lay hidden. Such thing as
dislodging them was clearly impossible
with so small force. After riding a
short distance and caring for, the
wounded, the troops dismounted and
cautiously approached the spot where
the attack was made. Upon scaling
the mountains not an Indian was to
be found. They had not descended
and mutilated the bodies as. is their
custom, but Immediately after the sol
diers retreated the Indians sought
their ponies and took the mountain
trail, going southwark toward Mexico
Lieut.. Thomas j. G. Maddox, one
sergeant, and four troopers were al
most instantly killed, and fell from
their horses. Second Lieut.. D. G.
Cabell and one sergeant are believed
to be fatally wounded, aud four
troopers slightly wounded. Lieut.
Cabell is son of Gen. Cabell, the pres
ent United States marshal at Dallas
Familiarity known as "Old Tige" in the
bloody days of the confederacy. After
burying the dead the little company Of
regulars went to Silver City. On their
way thither they found seven bodies
including two women, lying along the
roadway, where they they had been
overtaken by the Apaches and cruelty
shot down. 1t is thought that the
list of the killed will be swelled tic
twenty or more when other carriers
arrive from that district. Every.
body is leaving the country
the ranches are deserted and
that portion of New Mexico
never was SO terrified and disheartened
as at the present outbreak. Ranch
men utterly despair of the government
putting an adequate force in the field
and forever discriminating the murder
ers. About a dozen families have
reached this point from the Alma dis
trict, and will winter here. 1t is said
that this attack upon his soldiers has
had some effect on Gen. Crook. He is
now in favor of more vigorous meas
ures to repress the victorious Apaches
and has telegraphed to Gen. Sheridan
recommending that bloodhounds be
employed infollowing the Indians, and
thus plotting the soldiers into then
mountain strongholds. This massacre
at Alma and vicinity swells the list o.
murdered men and women in New
Mexico during the past year to over
200 souls