Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-06-16
MASSAGRED AT TIBURON.
Robinson and Logan Killed by
the Indians.
Ambushed and Shot Down-O'B Brien
and Clark Make Their Escape
and Arrive at Guaymas-
Yuma Times.

una Times.
Bloody disaster has ovetaken the
sloop Examiner, which sailed from here
April 18th for San Francisco.
OF the five men aboard, Clark and
OBrien are at Guayma~; Cowell was at
Nogales last week, having left the party
at Angel Bay; Robinson and Logan
were killed at Tiburon, al leland in the
| Gulf of Calf )rnia $50 miles from Yuma
and inhabited by fiercs tribe of Ind
isns.
| GUAYMAs, May 81, 1894
Dear Sir:-I suppose you will hear
of the massacre before this reaches you,
but can give you the particulars uf
it.
After we sailed from. Angel Bay, where
| Charley Cowell left us, We steered for
| Tiburon Island, where we arrived on
| May 25tb. We rounded the n. W.
point of the island and wentin to what
Is marked on the charts as FreshWater
Bay. We had not coasted it for more
that three miles when We saw a village
| and steered for it. The Indians COM
menced to scatter when we were getting
close, but some more brave stood their
ground and one who [ afterward learned
was the chief came out on the beach
when We got close enough, about three
hundred yards. L asked him if there
l. Na
then went up pretty close and anchored
| took the skiff and went ashore. They
all talked Spanish. The squaws and all
the men were dressed, some very well.
The chief OF course did the principal
part Of the talking and | questioned him
concerning the island, themselves and
50 on. He mad answer ready for every
question.
[ asked about the skIrmishes they had
with tina MeXicans. tie explained ali
and told such straight story that We
we're inclined 10 think they were nOt SO
bad as their name. TO help 1t along
the chief had paper with the sea! of
Hermosillo on 1t. written by Francisco
- | could not make out the last
name; il commenced with Ag. They
have since told NE it was Aguilar. That
paper cost US two lives, Il. h. l.. Rob
| insOn and James Logan, and We got
away by scratch.
We were on the island about twenty
hours. [ was ashore in their camp all
night. They danced and Gang till day
light. They had it planned and danced
their victory before il was won, they
| we're 30 sure of it. The next day, the
Goth, Robinson and Logan went cut 20
hunt and look around 4 iiLtie. was
ashore at tie time. They had been
gone aoout two hours when L heard
| three shots about q mile away. 1t
| caused some commOtion IN the camp
| az d some of the Indians get upon q
| sand ridge about twenty feet high so
| they could see over where the shots
| came from. ] did not like the way they
| Were acting and was looking around my
| self. The chief said they had killed q
| burro deer, but | thought three was
| too much fuss for that. He saw l was
| kind of unsettled and tried to show and
1 tell me too much at once. | concluded
| | had better go aboard any way, so |
| went and told O'Brien that / believed
| there vas something up and We had
better pull the boat out little further.
/ pulled the anchor up and commenced
| to push out with pole. 1t was low
| tide at the time and we were about In
four feet Of water and hundred yards
from the beach. | had not been
| aboard but minute or two when there
was another yolley OF shots little clos
er; then there was distinct cali; then
was firing at intervals, growing closer
rapidly; then Logan called me by name.
If he rad come on hundred yards fur
ther he would have been in sight. l
answered two or three times, but he
spoke no more, and l am sure it was
with his last breath that he called.
| Another voiley of shots was fired in
the vicinity be had called from last.
The Indians left the camp as soon as L
came aboard and We We're expecting
every minute they would shoot to US.
O'Brien was sick at the time and had
been for three weeks. We were $50 yards
from the hill and at their mercy. There
were only two rifles in our crowd and
Robinson and Logan had them both,
out I guess the Indians though We had
rifles. / am sure they are cowads for
when the shooting commenced there
were eight or ten around me. They all
had knives but were afraid to tackle
me. 1t is the greatest miracle in the
world they did not get US all. We were
within rifle shot for an hour after the
last shot was fired.
Robinson wrote a long log and it is
very interesting, though l am cure ne
was not as suspicious as be wrote or he
would never have left the beat.
| Our pa pers are not satisfactory and
we are hung up. [ have written to the
custom house for the one that is lacking
and when it arrives ] expect it will
square things up. guess l will be in
Guaymas in a week or two, then perhaps
may return to Yuma.
Yours TRULY,
| GEORGE FLAvELL.
| (Rettar known as Clark the trapDsr)