Ophner, after many months of suffering,…
source date: 1891
availability: public-domain

Ophner, after many months of suffering, recovered, but wears a wooden leg in place of the one with which he started out to hunt Ge- ronimo. During the same year Gene Kirker and Chas. Reese were going from Tombstone to the mine in a wagon when they were attack- ed by Indians. Reese was shot through the head but did not die for several minutes. Like his brother. Gene Kirker stayed with his friend until he was dead, then cut a mule out of the team and mounted. While cutting out the mule he was shot twice through the right leg, which was afterwards amputated.