Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1882 — Indian Massacres in Arizona and Mexico. [ARTICLE]

Indian Massacres in Arizona and Mexico.

Recent dispatches from the far Southwest give accounts of murderous work by the Apache Indians on the Mexican and Arizona frontier. Twenty jiersons. including several women and children, were killed in the vicinity of the Calavasas, Aiizona. Near Fronteras, Sonora, a party of miners, consisting of H. Barn s’ Payson Barnes, a man named Reifenstha’l and two Mexicans, were attacked and Reifensihal killed, and one of the Barnes wounded in the left arm. The fight lasted all day, and the men escaped under cover of darkness, Near Santa Cruz, in Sonora, three persons were massacred, and in the Sierrato valley seven were killed. A fight occurred in the Patagonia mountains. The Indians defeated the miners aqd ranchmen, she savages numbered 100,