cabin beheld a dozen or more Apaches, and…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

1869, while engaged in cultivating his little field of corn, at or about the present junction of Broadway and Main, on a lovely bright summer’s afternoon, he was startled by the shrieks of his wife and the screams of an only child, and on looking in the direction of his ( 23 )cabin beheld a dozen or more Apaches, and found to his utter amazement and dismay that the Indians were between him and his rifle. A moment later the screams had ceased and being discovered by the Indians the race for life began for the Langston mine, near Pinos Altos, nine miles distant, the only white settlement in the country, and succeeded in giving the alarm. The following day a party of mountaineers visited the now deserted frontier home, and found his wife and child not only murdered, but mutilated. On examining the cabin it was ascertained that his wife, on discovering the approach of the Indians, seized the rifle and secreted it in the chimney of the fire place, and the alarm intended for her husband was a scream of anguish, as she fell pierced with a dozen arrows. In 1870, Capt. Hurlburt was one of a party of eight who located Legal Tender Hill, and which subsequently led to the dis- covery of the Sherman mine, and the Chloride Flat mining district.