People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1895 — MASSACRED BY INDIANS. [ARTICLE]

MASSACRED BY INDIANS.

Entire Family Killed by Redskins Near Fort Bower, N. Y. Deming, N. M., Dec. 11.—Another murder of a family is reported from the San Simeon Valley in Arizona by the renegade band of Indians from the San Carlos reservation. A father, mother and thyeeychildren were slain on Thursday follPving the killing of Merrill and his daughter. They were Germans who had recently come to this section from the East Cor the purpose of taking up a,,homestead. The killing is reported to have occurred near Fort Bower, recently abandoned by the-United States troops. Nothing can be learned of the movements of the soldiers’ and cowboys’ posses. A detachment of the First Cavalry from Fort Bayard is stationed at Stein’s Pass to prevent the escape of the band into Old Mexico over the old Geronimo trail.