Bisbee daily review., 1912-03-17

] and increased number or wolves wno { appeared to be fighting among them selves, when they came to the gate St. John fired on them with his re- yolyer, which kept them al bay. With daylight Saturday morning they lett.
 but the crows returned. This. the thIrd day, seemed to St. John almost lnterminable, while his thirst was tor | turing. Lalng was yet aiiVe, moan | ing feebly, put tnot atISLf unH 10 move. This night the wolyes were
 Ooider anu attacked Burr Dody ngnt- lng ana quarreiIng over II, not more | than ten feet from where St John [ iay. An occa ional pistol shot kept them from entering the tnciosure.
 with Sunday morning came relief. MT. Archibald, correspondent for the Memphis Avalanche, arrived from
 I ucsUn on nis way to the Rio Grande. Seelng no flag flying and no one nov | ing aLOuI the station, he halted half a mile distant, leaving his horse with | his companion, approaching with hIs l gun cooked. St John could not re- spond to his halloas as his tongue and throat were disabled from thIrst. 1 Archibald at once started for the bring, a mile distant up the canon. 1 lie had no sooner left than three wag- ons of the Leach-Hutton road party | approached from the easz 1lhsy,
 too, seeing no life about the station, | lett the road and made a detour about 1 half Q mile to the south, fearing an ambuscade. They then cautiously | approached the corral on foot In | the party were Col. James E. Leach, | Capt. Hutton, Lieut.. Sylvester Mowory | and some other veterans. who quick | ly dressed St. Johns wounds, which i were full of maggots. They buried | the bodies of Burr and Cunningham | in one grave. Laing still hung to tie tenaciou fly, although nothing | could be done for him. and he died on Monday.
 | An express was started .o.' F.. Du- chanan by way of Tucson. as the route direct was not deemed safe for two men. They reached the fort on Wednesday following. The Doctor, Asst. Surgeon B. J. D. Irwin, started at once with an escort and reached Dragon on Friday morning, the ninth day since St. John was wounded. The arm was amputated at the cock ct. Six days thereafter St. John got into a wagon and rode to the fort, five days later he was able to walk about, and ten days thereafter, being twenty-one days from the operation, was able to mount a horse and ride to Tucson, a remarkably quick re covery from such severe wounds.
 From Surgeon lrwins' Report.
 On the 16th of September. 1858, l was requested to visit one of the sta tions of the Southern Overland Mail Company, where a number of men ! were reported to have been danger ous.y wounded. ! llet out at once, and arrived at the place early the
 next morning after smart ride of one hundred and fifteen miles, but found that three of the four wound ed men had already died. The his- ] tory of the survivor Silas St John, e strong, robust, healthy young man, age q, a native of New York City. was as follows: He, with three Americans and three Mexican boys. was engaged in constructing the mail station At midnight of the Sth one of the latter was placed on guard and the remainder of the party re- tired to rest for the night; soon thereafter the Mexicans arose, and with axes and a large hammer at | tempted to murder their sleeping | companions. St. John awoke, and | hearing D ows given, was in the act of sprnging from his bed when he received Q terrible blow from an axe. 1 which almost severed his left arm from his body, followed quickly by another that cut the fleshy part of the same arm in shocking manner; this was succeeded by another utroke that cut through the anterior exter- nal portion of the right thigh, a short distance below the joint. By this time he succeeded in graSping his pistol, and having fired at the desper- ate assasins they fled and were seen no more. One of the unfortunate vic | tins who slept outside of the door Of the rude Ihed never awoke; an other, with his face and head fright fully chopped and mangled, lived In | great agony until the evening of the next day; while a third, whose head
 was almost cloven in two, the brain continually oozing from the shattered
 skull. fingered until the sixth day,
 during which time, his frenzied cray ing for water to quench his burning
 
 character. On the evening of tue next day the Leach Wagon road party
 came by and found St. John, the only
 survivor of his party alone in rude hovel in the wilderness without food
 or water, unable to move, his wounds
 undressed, stiffened and full of loath- some maggots; his companions had died one by one terrible death, and
 lastly, to add to the horrors of his sui fering, the hungry wolves and bug zards came and banquetted upon the putrefying corpse of one of his dead
 companions which lay but few feet
 from his desolate bed. The mental
 and physical sufferings which be en- dured are marvellous to think of. Yet
 he never complained nor flinched for
 a moment Calm and resigned, he
 bore his torments with the fortitude
 of a martyr.
 After administering to his immed-
 fate wants, one of the road party
 was left with him, and remained until
 my arrival on the 17th at which time [ bfz ac fCl1orxyc. ha q