Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1890-06-28

alcalde mayor, Luis Granillo, and three
armed Spaniards held the convent until
midnight. Then seeing that their situa-
ton was becoming more and more critical,
they all mounted and dashed out. The
Indians followed; Granillo had, as soon
rs he heard the first rumors OF the out
break, sent messenger to the lieutenant
governor and the latter Immediately start
ed for Jemez with eight men. Passing
through Cha he found Father Nicolas de
Hurtado besieged by the Indians in the
convent into which he had taken refuge;
closing and barring the entrances, leaving
three men as temporary guard, Garcia
dashed onward and met Father Munoz
two leagues on this side of San Diego,
fleeing on horseback. Behind him, the al
calde mayor and one soldier were fight
ing the Indians. Upon the appearance
OF Garcia and his followers the insurgents
withdrew and the party returned to Cha,
where they arrived in time to save the
priest and his escort, whom the people Of
Cha were sorely pressing.
by DINT OF HARD FIGHTING
they were extricated and all together
left Cha pursued some distance by
the Indians. Dashing through Santa
Ana which was then situated on the
summit of the mesa lying between the
Rio Grande and the Jemez river, Garcia
reached the former and crossing it, under
cover of the night cast glance at the
frightful havoc perpetrated on the other
side. Between Santo Domingo and San
Felipe six dead bodies were lying in the
road, between San Felipe and Sandla the
houses of Anaya and Carabajal were reek-
ing with blood. Near Sandla crowds OF
mounted Indians beset them, but they
repulsed their onslaught and retreated to
the lieutenant governors hacienda, with
or the Indians followed.
Below the
ACTUAL SITE or ALBUQUERQUE
and the most southerly point where Span
iards had settled in New Mexico (eight
miles south of Socorro), the people
were in state of CONSERVATION and dis
may. News of the rebellion had spread
like wild fire, and although the Indians OF
Isleta had not as yet committed any HOSTILE
ties, 1t was manifest that they were in the
plot, exultant over the successes achieved
and only waiting for their northern breth'
rem to Join them, in order to fall upon
. the Spaniards on the lower Rio Grande
News to the effect that Santa Fe was in
the hands of the rebels, the governor
dead, all the inhabitants slaughtered
were circulating, and could not other
wise than be believed, since nothing came
from there to inform the terrified people
of the true state OF affairs. So while the
lieutenant governor was being blockadec
by the rebels Of Sandia, Puaray and Ala
media, the Inhabitants of the scattered
ranches and haciendas from Albuquerque
to Valencia, and of the few houses skirt
ing the Rio Grande in front of Alamillo
Socorro and below, were packing up thei
loose property in great haste, preparatory
to leaving New Mexico and fleeing to E
Paso del Norte. Had the Piros Indian
;whe occupied the pueblos on the rive
banks between Los Lunas to San An
tonio) been in the conspiracy, not ont
of these colonists could have escaped, 81
great was their terror, and 30 poorl.
armed, with few exceptions, were they a
the time. But the Pros had not beer
called upon by the insurgents to joil
them, as yet.
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