Escapes Indian Attack
source date: 1888
availability: public-domain

Escapes Indian Attack Ike W. Stevens, a miner and hunter well known in Clifton, recently had a narrow escape from Indians. The Gallup Register says: Ike Stevens, a prospector, well known in Clifton, Arizona, and Alma, New Mexico, arrived in Gallup on Saturday evening last, accompanied by Piochete, a Navajo Indian. Mr. Stevens was passing through the Navajo reservation from Bloomfield ferry to Gallup, with a pack train of three burros and a saddle horse, and reports that when thirty miles east of Gallup, he was fired upon by ambuscaded Indians, whose weapons were bows and arrows. One arrow struck him in the back near the shoulder blade, embedding itself in the flesh so firmly that it took a stout man with pinchers to extract it. Mr. Stevens succeeded in escaping from the attack- ing party and reached Piochete’s place where he found protection, the Indians giving him every assistance, and coming with him as guard to this place. Piochete says that the party who attacked Stevens are ex-United States scouts, who were employed by the government during Geronimo’s raid. He states further that there is a large party of bad Indians in the vicinity where Stevens was attacked, and thinks it un- safe for a single white man to pass over the road at present.