El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-11-08
A SCRAP WITH APACHES.
Ell PasO PrOspectOrs Have Hot Fight
With Renegades.


lied in this city for the purpose of
prospecting the gold pla GER fields OF
the Yauui country in Mexico. The
party consisted OF w. A. Mitchell,
GRAFT Barton, Gus Kline and jim
Borden, with Lew Gasser and Harry
Shipley. The first four QUILTED In FL
Pa 50 I'D Juarez and started on thelr
way. Lew Gasser and Harry SIMPLIFY
rem aimed in Ell Paso ana hal received,
off aad on, sever al letters from the
prospectors, who were moving on slow
" but surely to the Yaqul country.
The last letter received was the first
Tart of last week, dated October ~, IN
which the party said they were loo
miles southwest OF Ca as Grandes.
This was the last heard from the pres
pectors until after the Corf ali.Os Il ain
arrived from Casas GIandes last Satur-
day evening at 4:5O. This tra1n brought
lack Gus K ine, one of the proSpectors,
who was shot through the right arm
aod WHO had been sent back Oy the par
ty for medi, al attention.
To HERALD reporter Kline gave
the following S atement of a battle With
renegade Al ache indians and two while
men:
when our party were out about one
hunSred miles from ca as Grandes we
met up with another prospecting outfit
consisting of Robert Foy. OF Fort
Worth; Chris Lane, of Baird, Texa I;
Gus Jones, of Casas Grandes and a
Mexican named Juan BaI ella. This
arIy Joined our outfit and we a l Pho
ceeded on together aud L al crossed the
crest of the Sierra Marie range and
were moving down the west slope 70
Yaqui country. We met several par
it's who had turned back and they
warned US no. to proceed to the point
we intended going to as no one was
allowed to enter there as the position
was held by gang of desperate white
men and rene gade Apsches. This did
not deter nor scare US SO we kept on
our way. At nOon on the 18th OF oct
| ODER our party took dinner at the
mouth of canyon and after dinner
we pac ked up and started on our way.
l was in the lead in front of the burros,
two of which followed close behind
me. The track was very narrow and
we could only proceed Indian file and
in this way we were proceeding down
the canyon when one OF the party
called my attention to some tracks In
the path which we decided were mo-
casin tracks, but still we kept on our
way. l. dian file. l bad just turned a
sharp angle in the path, we'll upon the
side of the noun: ain, when all of a
sudden l he ard the report of several
guns aud was treated to shower OF
lea1. 1 dropped down behind rock
and as did SO l cav the burrO tt at was
| following me tOpple over and fail into
the canyon below. The shots came
| from the opposite side OF the canyon
about 200 yards away where parties
pine trees. AS L dropped behind the
rock l began firing with my
Winchester on the foe, who
keeping well co 1cealed but who sho u ed
| themselves occasionally jump1ng from
rocks and trees TO places OF vantage.
Our burros were turned back and
guarded in the re ar aud our party then
soush t rocks and general nght
opened across the caoyOn. In all about
| 300 shots were fired. l fred fourteen
shots from my " inchester, but just as
I fired the fourteenth shot l felt a
burning pain in my right arm AID saw
the bcod squirt out. l said to Mitchell,
| who was next to me behind the rock,
tt at they had got me. l then got my
pistol with my left hand and saw an
Apache Inc ian trying to get from one
tree to another. L took dead ain and
fired. 1 saw him throw up his right
hand and stagger and l am certain be
was hit. There was a tai white man
with the Indians and l took three
delibsra,e srots a. him with my
Wiz che e. ter aod am sure l bit him. but
the halls didn't seem to affect him. l
was aioning at bis head when l receiv-
ed a wound in the arm.
After the fgbt had lasted about
thre e-qna"ters of an hour, our ra'ts
got tog ether and decided to charge
the enemy l could not join In the
charge, but saw my ia 'ty scatter out
and go after TIE Indians. They soon
routed them from their portion aud
followed them down the canyon for two
hours. My arty returned aid looked
over the ground and they found three
different pools of blood which showed
tt at the renesaies as well as ourselves
bad been hit au:i in one place it. show
ed where somett ing al been dragged
away and we tboug bit it must lave
been a d ad Inoia1.
3. when the rarity returned from
cha ing the ren egades down the canyon
We fell back 10 good pcint AID camp
ed for the light. The next das Mich
ell, Jim Borieh and myself started
back so I could receive medical; att n
ton, the others.remaining in camp. l
was brought back thirty miles and
Michel! aad Borden returned to camp.