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Show More Murders by Indians. San Fbanctsco, December 2. A special to the Chronicle from Doming, N. M., says: Two men were killed by Indians last night near Salomonville, Arizona. Their bodies were found by a stage-driver on his way to Fort Thomas this morning. The two men who were killed by the Indians near Salomonville Salo-monville were the Wright brothers, pioneers of Arizona, living at San Jose on the Gila river, and a dispatch from Wilcox confirms the killing of Sheriff Ben Crawford of Graham Gra-ham county by the Apaches. The. Indians were divided into bands of fifteen to twenty. The killing of Sheriff Crawford has created the wildest excitement. Men, women and children are fleeing in all directions, and couriers are. being sent out to warn the settlers. The bodies of the two Wright brothers were horribly mangled. The Indians In-dians passed on to the Coronada ranch on the Gila river at 11 o'clock this morning, and at that place killed two cattlemen, one named Dick Mays. The name of the other is unknown. |