The Southern herald., 1886-06-26
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4 boys Account Of His Seven Months
Captivity Among the savages-

OanIlaSO mchln IL PEOphDiJ vh0 OnAJ |
eleven-year-old lad in America who
has been on scalping tour with g
party of hostile Indians. He has just
left this town for his home, In the COM
pany Of his father, after captivity Of
seyeh mohths id the Apache camp.
When Geronimo aid his band surreii
dered, the soldiers we're surprised to
find white boy with them who could
speak no English, though bearing un-
mistakable traces of Celtic parentage.
On securing an interpreter twas found
that the little fellow could speak Span
ish quite fusntly, and by this means
his story was obtained.
Sahtiagd's father is an Irishman who
owns ranch on the Mimbres, threS
miles from San Lorenzo, and his moth
er is Mexican woman. On the 11th
of last September he and an older
brother were some distance from their
home, and in ignorance Of the presence
of Indians, when q rife shot alarmed
them. Looking up they saw six In.
dians approaching rapidly. Santiago's
brother was killed at the next fire, but
the boy escaped unhurt only to be
taken prisoner. The bucks threatened
to cut him up, but on the intercession
Of one Of their number he was turned
over to the care Of the squaws, who
followed in the reaf Of the war party
From that time on the boy was in
no danger of death, but all winter he
was compelled to keep up with the
hostiles in their rapid movements from
place to place, and was an eyewitness
to more than twenty murders. When
the savages took Santiago in charge
they were on their way north. That
evening they met a Mexican on the
highway whom they killed and the
next day they surprised two wood
choppers, killing one. The other es-
capped, and the Indians hunted for him
for hours without success. As the saw
ages proceeded they would fire their
rifles into the houses that they came
across, and frequently would set them
on fire, but in most cases the inhabit-
ants had fled. When white men were
seen and they were to be killed. the
/ squaws would hide where they could
observe what was going on. Some
of the victims were butchered in
the most cowardly manner, after
the warriors had made protesta-
tions of friendship, and in nearly all
cases their bodies were mutilated.
Two days after his capture Santiago
I says the Indians went into camp in a
} valley few miles north of Cactus Flat,
| about twenty miles from the White
t House, in the Mogollons, and there
D they remained, except as they went of
on brief marauding expeditions fol
months. Soon after their arrival al
9 this place they were joined by Other
, savages, and the squaws worked indus
l triously to give the camp an air O
Q comfort. Some Of the bucks would
l steal away every day, and on their re-
A turn they would be loaded with the
: plunder of ranches, travellers and pros
|. pectors, The boys assertion that dur
0 ing all this time the hostiles were no
once alarmed by troops, and that he
had not during his entire experience
with the band seen any thing to indi
cate the presence of the army, caused
9 much chagrin among the soldiers, a
they had repeatedly said that Their
o were NO savages in the Mogollons
# Coming in with scalps, ammunition
d arms, blankets and clothing, and some
y times with money and hquor, th
e braves would pass the evenings in dis
n playing their trophies, boasting o
s their achievements and gambling. On
o night war party came in with a 10
# of groceries and candy. The latte
1T was given to the squaws, and they at
a so much of it that they were mad
d sick. 1t was afterward learned tina
this stock belonged to an old Frenc
is peddler who had been murdered.
r, Some time after New Years the In
Y dians moved south by forced marches
IS subsisting on horse meat. ,Whereve
2 they went they burned and killed. $
5, rapid were their movements and s
" many changes of base were made III
/, der cover of darkness, that the bo
= lost all track Of his whereabouts, an
70 can now give only vague descriptio
as of his wanderings. His recollectiO
s. of the murders that he witnessed is
II keen, however, that pretty clear idt
ii Of the raids Of the savages can be ha
at by one who Is familiar with the depr
dations committed. When found, Il
h; little fellow was almost exhausted, an
ID it is probable that month more Z
co the warpath would have used him u
o. His parents had mourned him as dea
lie and when they were notified of b
" safety, his father ordered him to
d. sent by rail- to this place, where q
n. two met. The lad has been MAJ
's- much Of by every body here. --Densi'
e. (M NJ Cor. N Y. Sun.
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= "A greyhound in Buffalo recent
~ =, made the lowest official running reco
I" in the world. The hound was give
= three trials. In the first he made .
:. 200 yards in 144 seconds; in the secoI
- he covered the distance in 12a second
I, and in the third he made the remark
- ~ BILE record Of 12t seconds, the lowe
~ niininl ,.nonrd In the world --Ratfi