Arizona silver belt., 1885-09-19
saturday, September 19, 1885.
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poses lnth lu uuiubcI dOuut AlbOohs The Dsming Headlight of tho 18th re. ports signal fires as having been seen the night previous on the Florida mountains and Cooks peak, and sen. tentiously remarks that there is a prospect of another series of Indian deprs4ations. A Lake Valley special 6r the 10th, to the Headlight, an nounces the killing of Brady Pollock by Indians, who drove off sixteen of his horses and destroyed the house of Mcknight and also Keith's on the Barendo.
 srtfL LAYER.
 Tss Southwest Sentinel of the 18th, fsceiysd yesterday, gives an account Of the prevailing excitement in south eastern New Mexico in regard to raid ing Indians, who are again deyasta- ting that section of country and mur- dering citizens. It gives an account of the killing of seven men and the wounding of five others, among whom was a woman and three children. The killing of Brady Pollock and the de- strnction of Mcknight and Keith's ranch houses have been confirmed
 Grant county is being secured for horses on which to mount citizens for pursuit, and on Monday morning, the 14th, twenty-five mounted men, under the leadership of Jack Fleming, pre- visioned for an extended chase, started. Fort Baird furnished saddles, brides and blankets, upon the official bond of the Mayor of Silver city, The follow ing account, from a Georgetown cor respondent of the Southwest Sentinel, of Mrs. Aliens heroism will prove in- teresting, as in showing the dangers to which citizens are subject to in con sequence of Gen. Crooks neglect to keep the Chiucahuas when he had them, near Fort Apache, Arizona, un- der military control. The communi- cation is under date of Sept. 18th, and IS as follows
 Friday evening it was reported in town that Indians had killed a Mexi- can near San Lorenzo, and that the Indians were heading for the upper Mimbres, Several parties left here, among them J. M. Heaoy and Captain Trerise went out to their ranches, to get thelr men and stock in, at the same time warming people along tho road. They arrived at their raspeo- tive ranches about 2 q. n. In the morning MT. Hehey went to Mrs. s. Allen, his nearest neighbor, telling her to be ready to come with hic men who would be there in twenty min utes with wagon for her and her three children. Mr. Heaey left Mrs. Allen at about 8 o'clock for home, Captain Trerise having left ahead with hIs men. About twenty minutes after Mir. Hefey's departure four Indians attacked the house. At the time of the attack, Mrs. Allen was in the milk house. It seems that the Indians were hid in small patch of pop corn with in few yards of the house. The children seeing them first gave the alarm. Mrs. Allen sta,t,d for the house, but was cut of by two Indians at the door. She then went around the house and smashed in window, trying to get to her six-shoosar. In breaking the window the poor woman cut her arm and hand badly. In try ing to get in, a third Indian already in the house drew his gun on her, say ing to the others at the door in plain English "there she goes" Mrs. Allen then retreated fIom the window, mak- ing for the chicken house followed by another Indian, when a large bull dog caught the Indian by tho leg and fought hard, meanwhile Mrs. Allen picked up her youngest child and fled to the bed of the creek, wading through the water for some distance, and then coneealing herself in a bush near by. Unknown to Mrs. Allen, the elder children having fled before their mother, ran up the mesa at least three rifles and from there home, and upon seeing the Indians coming up from the divide they dropped back into a canyon and hid, waiting for tho h. dins to pass. After the Indians had gone the tive little ones followed their track which took them 10 their moth CTS house. On arriving there the mother and the baby were gone, the house and furniture demolished, They then went down the river eight miles, arriving at the government saw mill about dark, after being out tbe whele day without food, The mother now returned to the house to seek her two other children, and on arriving at her once comfortable house she found it in ruins, and her children gone. The sorrow stricken women went down the canyon, see,ng as she went along tie footprints of ter lost ones in the sand. She followed them to the saw hill, where to her joy she found them alive and well. At 1o ?. m, the men of J. NJ. IIeaey came hI and said that they saw the Indians and that they had carried off or killed Mrs. Allen