The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-11-17
MORMONS ARE KILLED
IN FIGHT WITH INDIANS
Battle With ApacheS or YaQuiS Near Colony at
PaCheCO, Mexico Troops Go TO Scene.
Number of Killed or Wounded Whites Not Known But Said
to Be at Least -Four.
Especial to The Herald.)

FL Pao Tex Nov Official reports were received this
Casas Grandes Mexico, 10 miles southwest of
FL Paso saying Apache Indians attacked Amer
colony Pacheco, Mexico last evening
redskins repulsed difficulty after hard fight
Twelve several Momons were killed
wounded given although said
to be at least four.
The report the mayor of uarez Mexico this after
shape dispatch mayor Casas Grandes
It supplemented by request for troops drive the Indians
of the Boarding mountains toward which they fed after
attacking the settlers.
TROOPS ORDERED TO SCENE.
The mayor Tuarez forwarded the message President
governor Chihuahua, and troops and Mexican
officials will be ordered company of soldiers has
already dispatched from the military post Ascension
fifty miles Paceco but feared that they insufficient
cope with the Indians who expected fight desperately
now that they have taken the warpath.
believed have escaped from the
San Carlos southern Arizona where several hun
OF the boodst tribe the of the southwest
kept The dispatch stated however
the Mexican authorities positive whether the In
dams Apace Yaqus from Sonora but the general be-
Lief was that the attack due to Apaches
INDIANS FLED WESTWARD.
Just many Indians participated in the expedition
but from the reports is thought that there
fifty They left the Mormon settlement after the fight and
fed west supposed that they either into the Yaqui
country the reservation in Arizona No
knows how they escaped without the agent knowing It, but they
perhaps supposed to be hunting
Further information could be obtained this evening All
what given the mayors report from CaSa5
Crandes and he may be mistaken where the Indians be-
long The Yaqui Indians Sonora have been doing great
deal Of damage of late
LONG WAR MAY RESULT
this band of ApaChes the probabilities
that the trouble will end for many weeks Until every
the band has been slain they follow the precedent of
Geronimo and other chiefs 1t many years ago that
troublesome along the border that the United States
and Mexico entered into agreement permitting the armed
soldiers of either country pursue the savages border
whenever raid perpeated and in this the Indians
finally almost exterminated brought
Orders have just been received the Mecan military post
Iuarez the from this city, dispatch without de
lay fifty soldiers pursue the Indians
DEATHS SAID TO BE FOUR
Phoenix ARR, Nov ia special dispatch the Repub-
ican from Casas Grandes, Mexico says:
band of Apache Indians attempted drive away bunch
the Mormon settlement place morning
The settlers gave chase and in the fight
whites killed and several wounded.
The Indians lost killed and injured.
It is said that the raiders from the Carlos reseva
escaped The party probably composed of Chcahua Apaes
who fed into Mexico many years ago, when Indians
rounded up the reservations 1t is believed here
the raiders Yaquis, although only members of
that tribe against the Mexican troops be
found in the upper ranges of the Sierra Mado troops
nearby but message says that posse being
the hostiles.