Arizona Citizen
Tucson, Pima County, A.T.
Saturday, November 18th, 1871
Another Wholesale Indian Massacre.
Six more good men have been murdered by Indians. This
terrible massacre occurred on the 5th instant nine miles
west of Wickenburg. The western bound stage on that day had
on board as passengers Frederick Shoholm, Frederick W.
Loring, P.M. Hamel, W.C. Solomon, C.S. Adams, William
Kruger, Miss Sheppard, and John Lanz, driver. When passing
through an arroyo, the attack on them was made by, as is
variously reported, from nine to thirty Indians, and at the
onset all but Kruger and Mollie Sheppard were killed, and
they both wounded. One of the men was lanced and scalped—
name not reported. All the dead were brought back to
Wickenburg and there buried.
We heard the above last monday and the reliable details
waited till this morning, when our space is nearly occupied
and now can only say that Messrs. Loring, Hamel, and Solomon
were members of the Wheeler Expedition; Adams, Shoholm,
Kruger and Sheppard of Prescott. The murder was quite surely
the work of the Apache Mohaves. A friend at Prescott
promises us a complete account by next mail, which will
appear in our next paper. Week after week such sad and
sickening reports come to us for record, and yet there are a
few men so despicably mean as to say the Indians want peace.
Skylock was a saint in comparison to such heartless and
avaricious wretches.
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