The Clifton clarion., 1886-07-07


 Peck, while a captive among tn,
 Chiricahuas.
 The little girl, whose name ii
 Trinidad Berdin, says, regarding
 her capture at Peck's house, tha
 she and her aunt were indoors whe1 the Apaches approached the house
 The first she knew of the presenc, of any one was while at the dool she observed two Indians near tn, house, when she informed hel aunt, who immediately went to the door and was shot dead. Three ol four Indians then rushed into the house and caught her and the ba- by. She did not know the fate of the bahy, as she was at once plac ed on the back of horse behind a buck and the party of Indians started off. After going two or three hundred yards they came to where Mir. Peck was, barefooted and tied. The Indians had tied him and taken his boots. When she saw Peck she attempted to talk to him, but was prevented from so doing by the Indians. The party she was with stopped a few minutes where Peck was tied and one of them spoke to him in Eng fish, which language she did not understand, and one of them gave him some small change, she did not know how much.
 During the first day of her cap tivity she was delivered into the hands of an old squaw, in whose company she constantly remained until the squaw was killed and she was rescued at Saracachi.
 She says that during her captiv- ity she was almost constantly tray cling, but that the Indians always stopped for meals and at night. They had plenty of tortillas, coffee, beef and nearly every dpy had beef stew, of which she was always given plenty. She says she never saw any one killed; she often heard firing, but was told it was the bucks killing beef for them to eat.
 She also says that she never saw my soldiers, nor anyone, during ler captivity; that the nearest she came to seeing anybody was one night when the Indians passed so near Magdalena she heard the 'and playing in the plaza at that place.
 From what the child states, the Indians must have carried her over . large scope of country. She says hey were at one time in the noun aims where there were large number of squaws, and at another ime they were camped on top of . high mountain and that the In lians made a big fire and smoke, nd on the following night a great lumber of Indians came in and hat the man in command (evident- ' Geronimo) sent them away-five | nd SIX together-in fifteen or wenty different directions. She | hlnks there were about thirty in | he band that she travelled with, ut she was always kept in the rear nd could not tell very accurately heir number or what the bucks i'd. She does not know the names any of the places or mountains nat she was in, and has no idea the country over which she trav- led; she maintains, however that le was treated as well as could be zpected under the circumstances, nd given plenty to eat every day, lcept one, and on this exception le Indians travelled very rapidly l day and did not stop to eat lything themselves.
 The greatest hardship the child iperienced was being compelled ride bare-backed, day after day, trough the brush and over rough 'untry. Her clothing was all m off her body and she was bad
 scratched by the brush, besides eing chafed and galded from so uch riding.
 She says that when Venzuela's en attacked the Indians at Sara lchi the man body of the Indi- IS had gone on ahead. and that lly about seven or eight was with er when the Mexicans marched l them; and that when the Indi- IS saw the Mexicans coming they ounted as quickly as possible Id she was put behind a buck; at they were trying to get away hen the Mexicans opened fire on em. which the Indians returned, Id the fight commenced. Twice ring the fight she tried to slip [ the horse, but was prevented by n b,,ol- Ruf GDollv tho bOrea