El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-11-17
BIoodiest Red Skins Of the
South West Attack
Mormons.
SETTLERS FOUGHT
And Drove the Indians Toward
the Foot Hil's-Many Con-
f1ictirg Reports Have
Been Received.

| Twelve Apache Indians and an un-
known number of American Mormons
were killed in a bloody battle at Co
lonia Pacheco near Casas Grandes late
Thursday afternoon.
This news was conveyed in tele-
| gram from the mayor of Casas Grandes
| to Mayor Onate of Juarez yesterday
at $3.50 o'clock.
Just how the affair began the may
| or does not state in his report and only
| gives a brief statement of the raid
1t appears that the Indians fell into
the colony without warning as they did
in olden times and before anyone knew
just what was going on bloody bat
tie was being fought.
The Indians, so the mayor of Casas
Grandes states, belong to an Apache
tribe, in Arizona. They escaped from
the reservation several days ago and
were not seen anywhere on the road,
until the trouble came up at colony
Late Thursday afternoon the Nor
mons went over the ground and found
Mormons. The report was sent into
Casas Grandes yesterday. but the
mayor failed to state how many of
the Mormons were killed.
Mayor Onate sent the report of the
affair to Governor Ahumada of Chi
huahua who is now in the City of
Mexico. and orders for troops to be
sent into the settlement to pursue the
Indians who escaped we're received last
night. =
Just how many Indians are in the
expedition is not known but from the
reports it is supposed that there are
more than fifty. They left the Nor
mon settlement after the fight and fed
west. 1t is supposed that they eth
er went into the Yaqui country or re-
turned toward the reservation in Ari-
zona.
No one knows how the Indians es-
capped from the camp without the agent
are out hunting.
Situation Today
| The reports from Casas Grandes to-
day make no change in the account of
the affair in SO far as the official re-
ports go. Other reports. however, de-
ny the story in part.
| 1t is stated that all but two of the
Indians were killed. but there were on
ly five in the band
The story cannot be confirmed by
t&l of nd IN he
| trary. if their maneuvers are to be
taken to mean anything. the raid was
of some consequence. Last night the
soldiers at La Ascencion were ordered
out and this morning the company of
regular soldiers at Juarez left over the
Sierra Madre train for the scene
Whether this means anything more
than to stand guard in case other In
dians appear is left to mere conjecture.
Herald reporter visited Mayor
Onate this morning and he stated that
he had had no denyaI of the report he
received yesterday afternoon and he
thought that it would have been cor
rected if untrue.
At the Sierra Madre offices however.
another story was told.
1t appears that five Indians. accord
ing to the unofficial report. We're pass
ing through the country and at Colohia
Pacheo the Cave Valley, they found
, a house where the people were away.
They went in and took all the house
hold goods they wanted then helped
themselves to corn and other things
about the stables and proceeded on
their way.
The landlord returned in the after
noon and found that some one had
robbed him and started on a chase
The Indians were overtaken and de-
manded to surrender. They refused
and began fighting. The Mormons
were in the majority and killed two
/ Indians. man and woman. The
other three Indians gave up their goods