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chunk 805 · paragraph 847

ry massacre, which took place on the 21st day of April, 1850, when a party of Americans who owned the ferry near the junction of the Gila and Colorado rivers, together with their employes, were brutally murdered by the Yuma Indians, up to that time supposed to be friendly. Mr. Charles Brown, an old resident and prominent citizen of Tucson, was one of the owners of the ferry at the time of the calamity, and it was only by an accident that he did not share the fate of his companions. A few days before the Indians made the attack, an old chief whom Mr. Brown had befriended in numerous ways, came to him and told him of the murder- ous intention of his tribe and advised him to leave immediately. He therefore went to his companions, apprised them of the danger they were in, and declared his intention of leaving for California at once. But there was an ob- stacle in the way of his departure, as there was an understanding between the members of the