wagon and ran thirty or forty yards when he…
source date: 1890
availability: public-domain

tarted on their road home. They had proceeded but a short distance when they were attacked by Indians, who fired at them from rocks on the west side of the canon. Avaran Barrera was killed at the first fire, being shot downward through the body. The father jumped from the wagon and ran thirty or forty yards when he was shot down. The other son, Manuel, who was behind on horseback, ran as fast as his horse would carry him to where he was hidden from view when he dismounted and escaped in the heavy underbrush. The fiends dragged the body of the old man from where it fell and threw it into the ’Frisco river. The boy Manuel ran to the house of Mr. Robeson, owner of the Box O brand of cattle about two miles down the river, where he found Mrs. Robeson and Mrs. Golden alone in the house, Mr. Robeson and Mrs. Golden’s son having gone to the plaza but a short time before, and making a narrow escape from the Indians as they were only a quarter of a mile ahead of the Barrera family. Manuel Barrera reported the killing of his father and brother by the Indians, and the terri- fied women barricaded the house the best they could and awaited in suspense the return of their husband and son. Manuel Barrera, bor- rowing one of the two rifles which were at the house, ran down the river about one mile to the house of a Mexican named Gerone.