Glanton and Dr…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Glanton and Dr. A. L. Lincoln were asleep, each in one of the houses. A Mexican woman saw the chief of the Yumas enter the house in which the doctor lay and hit him on the head with a stone, whereupon he rose to his feet, but was immediately killed with a club. Another woman related the death of Glanton in the same manner. The others who remained in the house were killed, the manner not known; but none of them had an opportunity of killing any of the Indians. The party also learned from the Mexicans that the six who crossed the river for the Sonorians, were also killed by the Yumas. The bodies of five of them were brought over to the Mexican side and burned, as were also the bodies of Dr. Lincoln, Glanton and the other five murdered at the houses. Dr. Lincoln’s dog and two other dogs were tied to his body, and that of Glanton, and burned alive with them. A large quantity of meat was thrown into the fire at the same time. The houses were burned down, and the bodies of the other three Ameri- cans, named John A. Johnson, Wm. Pewit and John Dorsey consumed with them.